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Our History 

The Center for Housing and Community Studies (CHCS) was incorporated on February 2015 as a university-based research, evaluation, and technical assistance center. We fulfill our research agenda through technical assistance to governmental and nonprofit agencies as well as the preparation of working papers, research notes, and scholarly publications. As part of its mission, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s Center for Housing and Community Studies is committed to investigating and understanding how the social, economic, environmental and spatial aspects of home and neighborhood affect people’s health, well-being, and life course.
Who We Are
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The Center for Housing and Community Studies (CHCS) is a university-based research, evaluation, and technical assistance center. We provide technical assistance to governmental and nonprofit agencies as well as the preparation of working papers, research notes, and scholarly publications. We are actively engaged in funded studies of impediments to fair housing, continuum of care for the homeless, housing market trends and market segmentation studies, community indicators projects, asset mapping, county and regional community planning, and studies of the impact of housing on health.
What We Do​
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Community Dashboards & Indicators – Data Analysis – Data Collection – Fair Housing Analysis of Impediments – Focus Group Facilitation – Geographic Information Systems – Health Impact – Assessments Housing Assessments – Market Valuation – Neighborhood Development – Planning Studies – Policy Analysis – Program Evaluation – Survey Research – Technical Assistance & Consulting
Overview of Projects​
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The Center for Housing and Community Studies is currently involved in studies of mobile homes, rural opiate addiction, rural economic development, immigrant and refugee housing, evictions, crime and housing, community health, food access, homelessness, housing quality, and fair housing. Project tabs provide further detail on a number of these projects.
Contact Us
Center for Housing and Community Studies
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Suite 3605 Moore Humanities and Research Administration Building 
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
VOICE :336.944.6145
EMAIL :CHCS@UNCG.EDU
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