Articles that explore segments of the population often with unique needs and/or higher risks of housing instability. These include rural communities, low income households, veterans, minorities and women. This category also includes articles related to fair housing, including accessibility, discrminiation and interventions such as AFFH.
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Special Populations & Fair Housing Resources
A working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, “Housing Discrimination and Pollution Exposures in the United States,” finds evidence that discrimination in the housing market contributes to racial disparities in exposure to harmful pollutants. The authors find that minority…
The Brookings Institution released a report that examines patterns of continuing racial segregation throughout the country. In every major metropolitan area, white Americans continue to reside in mostly white neighborhoods, even as the nation becomes more racially and ethnically diverse.
The…
The Policy Surveillance Program at Temple University’s Center for Public Health Law Research updated two datasets, one on state fair housing protections and another on city nuisance property ordinances. The state fair housing protections dataset identifies key features of state fair housing laws in…
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) will conduct a webinar, “Housing Rights for Survivors of Domestic Violence Interacting with the Criminal Justice System,” on Monday, March 30 at 3:00 p.m. ET.
Survivors of domestic violence may have engaged with the criminal justice system in ways that could…