The National Housing Preservation Database, launched on November 29 by NLIHC and the Public and Affordable Housing Research Center (PAHRC), was featured in HUD’s online magazine, The Edge, the week of December 10. In the article, Megan Bolton, Research Director at NLIHC, describes the reasons for creating this database and discusses some of the tools available on the database website, www.preservationdatabase.org.

This is the first database to integrate data from all of HUD’s major rental housing programs with information on rental properties funded with Low Income Housing Tax Credits and through USDA Rural Development. The database contains information on property location, contract expiration or mortgage maturity date, property ownership and management, total units, physical inspection scores and other property and subsidy characteristics (see Memo, 11/30).

Click here to read the article in The Edge.