research on housing insecurity

Part one

• Lets say that, as part of your research on housing insecurity, you are conducting archival and historical research on Miami-area evictions. Your first archival data source is Miami-Dade Countys official eviction reports, current and historical ( ). Your second data source is Eviction Lab ( ).
  • As Desmond discusses during the first few minutes of Unmasking ( ), how do such data represent a biased sample of total evictions and thus underestimate total evictions?
  • How do you think this undercount pertains to The hidden side of Miamis housing crisis ?
  • What kinds of data sourcesgovernment, business, archival (past, present), photographic, ethnographic, geographic, etc.might you have to find and use in order to obtain a more comprehensive picture of Miami-area evictions (perhaps for a specific district, a racial-ethnic group, disabled persons, elders, or the pandemic, etc.)? Be sure to describe sources beyond surveys, in-depth interviews, and ethnography by including at least five other types of sources. See, for example, Carr et al., chapter 12 (pages 371-388; and Nathan Connolly, A world more concrete: The remaking of Jim Crow South Florida (video, 28 minutes).

Part two

• Last week we wrote survey questions that elicit fixed responses or other brief responses. A survey can also include in-depth, open-ended questions, or to varying degrees a research project can focus on in-depth interviews.
• What is the difference between quantitative interviewing and qualitative interviewing? Provide an example of each type.
• Describe the sources of biases to avoid in in-depth interviews:

• Describe interviewing ethics:
• Draft five in-depth questions to prompt open-ended responses in association with the current residence closed-response questions.
• Draft one in-depth question to complete the interviewconcerning the respondents housing concerns in view of the pandemic.