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On the final day of the Our Homes, Our Voices National Housing Week of Action, Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced a House resolution calling for a “Housing Bill of Rights” to declare that all renters deserve safe, affordable and decent homes.
The resolution affirms housing as a basic…
An Urban Institute report, Public Housing Work Requirements: Case Study on the Chicago Housing Authority, used Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) administrative data and information from 24 interviews with CHA staff and residents to conduct an analysis of the CHA work requirement policy. Though work-…
An article in Housing Policy Debate “Do Small Area Fair Market Rents Reduce Racial Disparities in the Voucher Program?” by Vincent Reina found that Small Area Fair Market Rents (SAFMRs) are associated with important but marginal improvements in accessing less disadvantaged neighborhoods for black…
On December 22, 2018, the federal government began a partial shutdown when Congress and President Trump could not agree on an appropriations bill or continuing resolution that would continue to fund certain federal agencies, including HUD and USDA. Now the longest in U.S. history, this shutdown…