List of Housing Resarch Repository articles that focus on Housing Assistance: vouchers, subsidies, public housing and other public assistance.
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USDA released a new tool on September 19 to help communities and advocates identify affordable housing developments at risk of leaving USDA’s portfolio once the property’s USDA loan matures. Once a USDA loan is paid in full, owners are under no obligation to maintain the properties as affordable…
The Housing Assistance Council (HAC) published a research brief and an interactive map on maturing mortgages in the USDA’s Section 515 Rural Rental Housing loan program. Since 1963, Section 515 mortgages have financed nearly 28,000 properties consisting of more than 533,000 affordable rental homes…
A paper published in Housing Policy Debate by Erin Graves of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston titled “Rooms for Improvement: A Qualitative Metasynthesis of the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program” reviews findings from twenty qualitative studies of the HCV program published between 2000 and 2014…
A study conducted by the Center for Outcomes Research and Education (CORE) and sponsored by Enterprise Community Partners found affordable housing reduced overall health care expenditures by 12% for Medicaid recipients. Researchers attribute these savings to more cost-efficient use of health…