Research
Residential Mobility, Housing, and Child Wellbeing.
In one line of ongoing work, I ask: what are the social factors that shape whether families make moves for the better or for the worse, and how do these moves influence children’s wellbeing and future life chances?
Lowell, Warren and Maria Hanratty. 2022. “Who Counts? Educational Disadvantage Among Children Identified as Homeless and Implications for the Different Systems That Serve Them.” Social Service Review 96 (4): 581-616.
Lowell, Warren. “When Are They Insecure?” 2025. Housing Arrangements and Residential Mobility Among Families with Children. Social Forces.
Housing markets, public policy, and urban transformation.
In another line of work, I ask how housing markets and public policies are implicated in processes of urban transformation and spatial inequality.
Lowell, Warren and Imari Smith. 2023. “Wealthier Neighbors and Higher Rents: The Rental Assistance Demonstration and Gentrification.” Urban Affairs Review 59 (5): 1626-1664.
Lowell, Warren. Ongoing Research. Dealing with Distress: How Investors Find Value in Aging Housing Infrastructure to Change Neighborhoods. Working paper coming soon!
Lowell, Warren, Anna Gassman-Pines, Beth Gifford, and Marcos Rangel. “Property Dynamics and Residential Mobility:
How Sales, Renovations, and Demolitions of Rental Properties Influence Moves for Children.” Working paper coming soon!