Background: The National Preservation Data Landscape
FIX LINKSNLIHC began its work on this issue by investigating other efforts to collect information on the universe of subsidized rental housing. These documents summarize our early findings.
- This Research Note (January 2008) describes the efforts of several government agencies and nonprofits to collect and disseminate data on the country's subsidized rental stock. Although we find no evidence that a national Preservation Catalog exists or is in the works, we identify many important data sources and partners that could contribute to such a project in the future.
- This Research Note summarizes 15 interviews with organizations that actively maintain subsidized housing databases. The depth of information, breadth of programs, and geographic scope of each effort vary considerably (June 2006).
- Preserving Assisted Rental Housing: The National Data Infrastructure has a wealth of information on assisted housing preservation, including an inventory of data collected by national and state organizations and a long list of research reports dealing with affordable housing preservation and associated data.
- In the third response in this article, NLIHC Research Director Danilo Pelletiere argues that a preservation catalog forms the foundation of a “preservation-first” approach to local economic development.