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The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) released a report, Housing Mobility Programs in the U.S. 2020, that provides a detailed list of housing mobility programs across the country. Housing mobility programs are operated by housing authorities or nonprofits to offer counseling and…
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representatives Jesús “Chuy” Garcia (D-IL) and Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced legislation on June 29 that would extend and expand a nationwide eviction moratorium to protect tenants who have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The “Protecting Renters from…
The Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Health and the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at NYU recently added a “COVID Local Risk Index” to their City Health Dashboard. The index uses housing, health, demographic, and economic indicators from the American Community Survey (ACS)…
Two reports released by the Economic Innovation Group detail the growth and persistence of high-poverty neighborhoods in the U.S. over the last 40 years. The reports, “The Expanded Geography of High-Poverty Neighborhoods” and “The Persistence of Neighborhood Poverty,” find that since 1980, the…