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The House Financial Services Committee held a full committee hearing on January 14, “On the Brink of Homelessness: How the Affordable Housing Crisis and the Gentrification of America is Leaving Families Vulnerable.” Witnesses included: Karen Chapple, professor and chair of the Department of City…
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York released a report on how to measure communities’ financial health, Unequal Access to Credit: The Hidden Impact of Credit Constraints. The report introduces the New York Fed’s new Credit Insecurity Index, which measures a community’s credit health by combining…
Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research released a special issue dedicated to research on Small Area Fair Market Rents (SAFMRs). Over the next several editions of Memo, NLIHC will highlight papers from this issue. One of these papers, “The Effects of Small Area Fair Market Rents on…
A paper published in Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, “Does Jobs Proximity Matter in the Housing Choice Voucher Program?,” found no evidence that Housing Choice Voucher households in the labor force are more likely than those not in the labor force to locate closer to jobs.…