Publications

Coley, R. L., McCoy, D., Hatch, S. (in press). How poverty shapes children’s structural and social environments.

Leer, J., Lanteri, L., Teixeira, S.& Coley, R. L. (in press). Neighborhood social environments and mental health among youth and adults in public housing. 

Lanteri, L., Leer, J., Coley, R.L. & Teixeira, S. (under review). "You’ve made it if you can, not have to live to survive, but live to live”: Beliefs about socioeconomic success and mobility among youth and parents in public housing.

Lanteri, L., Leer, J., Teixeira, S., Coley, R.L. (under review). Sociocultural correlates of subjective social status in a public housing community. 

Satcher, L., Hwang, D., Adamkiewicz, G., Teixeira, S., Coley, R.L. (Under Review). Racial integration or isolation in Southie? An examination of sociodemographic shifts in South Boston public housing, 1980-2020. 

Strauss, J., Coley, R.L., & Teixeira, S. (under review) Withdrawn at home, withdrawn from school: The relationship between internalizing behaviors and school attendance in young public housing residents.

Wang, Y., Screene, C., Strauss, J., Coley, R.L., & Teixeira, S. (under review). Neighborhood child-friendliness and parenting strategies: Community Cultural Wealth in a public housing community.

Teixeira, S., Spielvogel, B., Hwang, D., Lown, J., & Coley, R. L. (2024). Short- and long-term effects of HOPE VI redevelopment on neighborhood housing conditions. Housing Studies, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2024.2423820 

Coley, R. L., Spielvogel, B., Hwang, D., Lown, J., & Teixeira, S. (2023). Did HOPE VI move communities to opportunity? How public housing redevelopment affected neighborhood poverty, racial composition, and resources 1990-2016. Housing Policy Debate, 4, 909-940. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2022.2121614

Chen, Z., Wang Y., Teixeira S., Coley, R.L. Poor Housing Quality and Mental Health in Public Housing: Age Differences and Neighborhood Contexts

Her, S., Wang, Y., Teixeira, S., & Coley, R. L. Neighborhood Disorder, Parenting, and Children’s Behavioral Adjustment: The Role of Neighborhood Collective Efficacy

Matz, C., Chen, Z., Teixeira, S., & Coley, R. L.  Financial Strain, Health and Mental Health among Public Housing Residents: The Role of Social Environments 

Teixeira, S., Chen, Z., Coley, R.L. Cost, conditions, consistency, and context: Public housing resident perspectives on housing and neighborhood contexts and their implications for well-being. Housing Policy Debate

Wallace M., Coley, R.L., Teixeira, S., Satcher, L., Adamkiewicz, G. Between Unit Indoor Air Quality due to Resident Behavior within a Low-income Housing Complex

Coley, R.L., Mandalaywala,T.,  Lanteri, L., & Teixeira, S. (June, 2025). Do children use housing or community characteristics when making inferences about the likelihood of social mobility? [Paper presentation]. Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition Conference, County Kildare, Ireland.

Coley, R.L. (July, 2025). Invited presentation: How poverty shapes children’s educational opportunities and success through structural and social environments. International Lifecourse Conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Coley, R.L. (July, 2025). Invited presentation: A conceptual framework of poverty’s impact on children’s proximal environments. University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

Lanteri, L., Leer, J., Coley, R.L., Teixeira, S. Youth and Parent Perceptions of Social Mobility and Success in a Public Housing Community (2025, May 1), [Paper presentation]. 2025 Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Minneapolis, MN

Her, S., Wang, Y., Teixeira, S., & Coley, R. L. Neighborhood problems, parenting, and children’s behavioral adjustment: The mediating and moderating role of social cohesion (2025, May 1). [Poster Presentation]. 2025 Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

Satcher, L., Strauss, J., Chen, Z., Coley, R.L., Teixeira, S. Exploring Black Resident Place Attachment and Perceptions in a Boston Community (2025, April 17). [Oral Presentation]. 2025 Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Teixeira, S., Chen, Z., Coley, R.L. Cost, conditions, consistency, and context: Public housing resident perspectives on housing and neighborhood contexts and their implications for well-being  (2025, April 17). [Oral Presentation]. 2025 Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Lanteri, L., Leer, J., Coley, R.L. Determinants of Subjective Social Status: How Does Subjective Social Status Operate in a Diverse Public Housing Community (2025, April 18). [Research Brief Presentation]. 2025 Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Chen, Z., Wang, Y., Teixeira, S., Coley, R.L. Indoor housing quality and mental health among public housing residents: Variation across age and neighborhood contexts (2025, April 12), [Paper presentation]. Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) Conference 2025: Greater Boston’s Annual Insight-to-Impact Summit. Roxbury, MA. 

Lanteri, L., Leer, J., Coley, R.L., Teixeira, S. “You’ve made it if you can, not have to live to survive, but live to live”: Beliefs about Socioeconomic Success and Mobility among Youth and Parents in Public Housing (2025, April 12), [Paper presentation]. Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) Conference 2025: Greater Boston’s Annual Insight-to-Impact Summit. Roxbury, MA.

Wang, Y., Screene, C., Strauss, J., Coley, R.L., Teixeira, S. Parents’ Perceptions of Neighborhood Child-Friendliness and Parenting Strategies: Community Cultural Wealth in a Public Housing Community (2025, April 12), [Poster presentation]. Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) Conference 2025: Greater Boston’s Annual Insight-to-Impact Summit. Roxbury, MA.

Coley, R. L. (2025, March 28). Invited presentation: How poverty shapes children’s structural and social environments: An integrative review and conceptual framework. School of Education and Human Development, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.  

Strauss, J., Teixeira, S. (2025, January 17).The Neighborhood Social Environment and Early Adolescent Student Engagement: A Scoping Review, [Poster Presentation]. Society for Social Work Research Annual Conference, Seattle, WA

Coley, R. L. (2025,  January 14). Invited presentation: Quasi-experimental methods evaluating local and national policies to improve housing conditions and contexts. Hopkins Housing & Health Collaborative, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

Coley, R. L. (2024, October 28). Invited presentation: Multiple methods for evaluating policies to improve housing quality and stability. Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. 

Coley, R. L. (2024, October 14). Invited presentation: How poverty shapes children’s structural and social environments: An integrative review and conceptual framework. Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.  

Wallace M., Coley, R.L., Teixeira, S., Satcher, L., Adamkiewicz, G. (2024, July 7–11). Between-unit indoor air quality variability due to resident behavior within a single Boston public housing complex [Conference presentation]. Indoor Air, Honolulu, HI, United States.

Wallace, M., Satcher, L., Teixeira, S., Coley, R.L., Adamkiewicz, G. (2024, April 12). The inside story: Tracking indoor air pollution within a Boston public housing complex [Conference presentation]. BARI Conference 2024: Greater Boston’s Annual Insight-to-Impact Summit, Cambridge, MA, United States.

Leer, J., Lanteri, L., Teixeira, S., & Coley, R. L., & Samios, T. (2024, April 12). Residents’ Perceptions of Their Neighborhood Social Environment Prior to a Large-Scale Public Housing Redevelopment. Paper presented in symposium, "Public Housing & its Residents" at the Boston Area Research Initiative Conference, Boston, MA.

Satcher, L., Teixeira, S., Coley, R.L., Hwang, D., Adamkiewicz, G. (2024, March 2). Racial integration or isolation in Southie? Sociodemographic shifts in South Boston’s public housing, 1980-2020. Oral presentation. Eastern Sociological Society 94th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

Strauss, J., Teixeira, S., & Coley, R.L. (2024, March 20). School attendance and internalizing behaviors in young public housing residents. [Conference Presentation]. Boston College Graduate Research Symposium, Chestnut Hill, MA.

Strauss, J., Teixeira, S., & Coley, R.L. (2024, January 10-14). Withdrawn at home, withdrawn from school: The relationship between internalizing behaviors and school attendance in young public housing residents. [Poster Presentation]. Society for Social Work Research Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.

Teixeira, S., Strauss, J., Durham, A., Ohmer, M., Lown, J., Booth, J. (2024, January 12) Routes to power and impact: Community-engaged neighborhood research across methods, career Stages, and scales. [Panel]. Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research. Washington, D.C.

Matz, C., Ryu, B., Houston, A., Coley, R. L., & Teixeira, S. (2023, November 10). Low-income, marginalized older workers: Financial strain, health and mental health. Paper presented in C. Matz & C. Halvorsen (co-chairs), Precarity and Work in Later Life: Experiences of Older Workers in Uncertain Times, Symposium presented at the Gerontological Society of America’s (GSA) Annual Conference.

Leer, J., Lanteri, L., Teixeira, S., & Coley, R. (2023, October 26). Links Between the Neighborhood Social Environment and Health in Contemporary US Public Housing. Paper presented to the Psychology Department, Northeastern University.

Leer, J., Lanteri, L., Teixeira, S., & Coley, R. (2023, October 23). Links Between the Neighborhood Social Environment and Health in Contemporary US Public Housing. Virtual presentation for the Political Ideology & Groups Lab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Leer, J., Lanteri, L., Teixeira, S., & Coley, R. (2023, November 10). Links Between the Neighborhood Social Environment and Health in Contemporary US Public Housing. Paper presented in Symposium: “Housing, Neighborhoods, and Education” at the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management Fall Research Conference, Washington, D.C.

Teixeira, S., Coley, R.L., Houston, A., Leer, J., Samios, T., Kelly, N., Sullivan, C., Martin, K. (2023, April 28). Targeting health disparities through housing redevelopment: An inter-sector collaboration in South Boston. Oral Presentation. Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) Conference 2023: Greater Boston’s Annual Insight-to-Impact Summit. Cambridge, MA.