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Item INTERSECTIONS OF HOUSING AND TRANSPORTATION INSECURITY IN DELAWARE(University of Delaware, 2025-05) Schultz, LawsonTo improve conditions for low-income residents, research with an integrated focus on the combined impacts of housing and transportation on people's experiences is critical. Delaware's population has been increasing faster than the national average, adding pressure on the housing market. This has caused securing affordable and safe housing to be increasingly more difficult for low-income residents. This research aims to connect information on housing and transportation insecurity in Delaware to investigate the accumulation of the two disadvantages. The findings are based on interviews with residents who use housing vouchers, state representatives, and staff members of state agencies. The experiences of residents who use housing vouchers reveal gaps in the current resources and systems in place that contribute to housing and transportation instability for low-income families. Residential instability or the risk of it and limited housing choices were consistently experienced by all the residents interviewed both before and after receiving housing vouchers. Additionally, some participants emphasized the significance of having a personal vehicle contributing to their overall well-being, despite the related financial burdens. The conversations with DSHA, HAD, DART staff members, and state representatives consistently reflected the concerns found within previous literature regarding the lack of affordable housing, landlords choosing not to accept housing vouchers, concentrated poverty in Wilmington, and the redevelopment of manufactured housing communities. Additionally, these conversations also revealed novel information about increasing action within these organizations. The findings, overall, emphasize the need for policy changes that address the underlying issues of residential instability and limited housing choices for low-income households. It is essential that future research continues to include the perspectives of low income residents in the development of policies and programs relating to housing and transportation across the state.Item “The More Connection the Better”: Bounded Relationships and Uneasy Alignments in Prison Education(Journal of Health Care Law & Policy, 2024-01-19) Leon, Chrysanthi; Perez, Graciela; Lowman, Jules; Schultz, Lawson; Babakhani, Atieh; Addison, Dylan; White, BarbaraThis Article examines Inside-Out pedagogy with qualitative data from an evaluation at a women’s prison as a case study of uneasy alignments between opposing systems. The Article analyzes student data from pre and post course surveys and follow up interviews scheduled within the year after the course was completed. Hearing from people most impacted by how emotionality and rationality are circumscribed within the prison classroom leads to recognizing the conditional connections formed in Inside-Out classes as “bounded relationships.” This concept emphasizes the physical boundaries and interpersonal regulations associated with incarceration and situates their impact on education in prison within the broader context of alienation and constrained autonomy imposed by the criminal legal system. This boundedness shapes experiences in the class and afterwards and may undermine the radical intentions of Inside-Out, with lessons for other attempts at bridging or aligning disparate approaches or systems.