Black and Whites In Assisted Housing Depend Equally on Different Types of Housing, but Black Households Live in Lower Quality Areas
A study by Sandra J. Newman and Scott Holupka, “Race and Assisted Housing,” published in Housing Policy Debate explores racial disparities between black and white families with children living in…
HUD Releases New LIHTC Tenant Data
HUD released Understanding Whom the LIHTC Program Serves: Data on Tenants in LIHTC Units as of December 31, 2014. The report provides information on the income, race, disability status, and family…
HUD Study Compares Health of HUD-Assisted Renters, Unassisted Low-Income Renters, and the General Adult Population
A report by HUD staff Veronica E. Helms, Jon Sperling, and Barry L. Steffen, A Health Picture of HUD-Assisted Adults, finds that a higher proportion of HUD-assisted adults are seniors or single-…
Families with Housing Choice Vouchers Are Underrepresented in Low-Distress Neighborhoods
A study published in Cityscape titled “Vouchers and Neighborhood Distress” by Alex Schwartz, Kirk McClure, and Lydia Taghavi find that Housing Choice Vouchers (vouchers) utilized by female-headed…
Mobility Program Provides Access to Higher Quality Neighborhoods
A study titled “The Effects of a Housing Mobility Experiment on Participants’ Residential Environments” by Quynh Nguyen, Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Nicole Schmidt, and Theresa Osypuk published this…
Teenagers Benefit in Adulthood from Public Housing and Vouchers
A new study by Fredrik Andersson, John Haltiwanger, Mark Kutzbach, Giordano E. Palloni, Henry Pollakowski, and Daniel Weinberg found that young adults who had lived in public or voucher-assisted…
NLIHC Report Finds Long Waits for Federal Housing Assistance
NLIHC released today a new report titled Housing Spotlight: The Long Wait for a Home about Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs) and Public Housing waiting lists. An NLIHC survey of Public Housing Agencies…
USDA Releases New Tool to Help Identify At-Risk Properties
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…
HAC Examines Maturing Mortgages in the USDA’s Section 515 Rural Rental Housing Loan Program
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…
Study Identifies Barriers to Housing Choice and Mobility for Voucher Holders
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…
Study Finds Affordable Housing Reduces Health Care Costs
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…