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

White-Segregated Subsidized Housing Poses Fair Housing Concern

A recent report by the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity at the University of Minnesota Law School, The Rise of White-Segregated Subsidized Housing, discusses the emergence of subsidized housing developments in predominantly white neighborhoods. The report, which focused on Minneapolis and St.…

Bipartisan Policy Center Releases Action Agenda for Healthy Aging

Healthy Aging Begins at Home, a report released by the Bipartisan Policy Center, outlines an actionable policy agenda to accommodate America’s older adults. The report breaks down the challenges of housing and caring for the growing aging population into four dimensions: expanding the supply of…

Quality of Where People Live after Incarceration Varies by Race

A research brief from the University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Research on Poverty titled How does incarceration affect where people live after prison, and does it vary by race? reports that after incarceration, white ex-inmates tend to relocate to more disadvantaged neighborhoods than they…