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Housing

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Housing

BU’s Initiative on Cities Builds a Tool for Fighting Displacement

February 18, 2025

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Housing Crisis

How Do We Solve America’s Affordable Housing Crisis? BU Research Helps Inspire a Federal Bill That Suggests Answers

July 25, 2024

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Expert Take

Should People Be Fined for Sleeping Outside?

April 18, 2024

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Hospital Design

How the Design of Hospitals Impacts Patient Treatment and Recovery

March 14, 2024

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Aging Reimagined

The Ingredients of Unequal Aging: Housing, Income, and Health

February 21, 2024

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Urban Planning

Why Is the US So Unprepared for Natural Disasters?

January 3, 2024

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Black Women’s Health

Racism, Sexism, and the Crisis of Black Women’s Health

October 31, 2023

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Gentrification

Can We Stop the Gentrification of Cities?

October 24, 2023

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Opioid Crisis

A Notorious Boston Intersection, Mass and Cass, Faces an Opioid Overdose Crisis. BU Researchers Are Turning to Overdose Survivors for Answers

August 3, 2023

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Racism

Experiencing Racism Increases Black Women’s Heart Disease Risk, BU Research Finds

March 1, 2023

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2022 in Review

Best of The Brink 2022: 10 Amazing Discoveries and Mind-Blowing Facts

December 12, 2022

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Veterans

Why Veterans Remain at Greater Risk of Homelessness

November 9, 2022

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Cognitive Health

Living Near Greenery Could Give You a Brain Boost—and Reduce Dementia Risk

May 4, 2022

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Environmental Justice

This Squad of Researchers Is a Real-Life Justice League

October 27, 2021

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Mental Health

Depression Rates in US Tripled When the Pandemic First Hit—Now, They’re Even Worse

October 7, 2021

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Heat Illness

How Does Heat Exposure Affect the Body and Mind?

July 6, 2021

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Environmental Health

As Temperatures Set Records, Heat Exposure Hits Some Neighborhoods Harder than Others

June 25, 2021

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Health & Wellness

Massachusetts Ranked No. 1 Healthiest State on National Community Well-Being Index

May 25, 2021

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COVID Testing

Robots, Nanobeads, and Data Modeling—The Science behind BU’s Coronavirus Testing Plan

August 4, 2020

Robots, Nanobeads, and Data Modeling—The Science behind BU’s Coronavirus Testing Plan