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On July 18, IPI Intern Kristi Spalding presented a research poster at the 2024 Idaho Conference on Undergraduate Research. The research was conducted in the Housing Opportunities for All VIP course with Dr. Fry and Dr. Krista Paulsen during the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 semesters. Her team partnered with the City of Boise Housing and Community Development Division to revise their Annual Community Survey and develop new deployment strategies in order to increase engagement from minority populations that have historically lacked in survey participation. Increasing the participation of different minority groups will help the city be better informed on what services are needed in Boise so that they can direct HUD funding to those services. Ultimately, our survey revisions and new deployment strategies were successful and we were able to increase participation from minority populations to have a demographically representative sample of Boise residents.