NHC Reviews State of Research on Housing and Healthcare Costs
A new literature review by Lisa Sturtevant and Janet Viveiros of the National Housing Conference (NHC), How Investing in Housing Can Save on Health Care, examines the current state of research on the…
How Households in the Moving To Opportunity Demonstration Fared after Leaving Housing Assistance
A study recently published in Cityscape explores how households in the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration fared after leaving housing assistance. The authors of the article titled “What…
Community Impact: The Effects of Assisted Rental Housing in Delaware
A new study conducted on behalf of the Delaware Housing Coalition found that in Delaware, the location of assisted affordable housing is not associated with any change to the value of neighboring…
Tenant Council Election Manual: A Guide to Building a Duly Elected Resident Body
TOPIC: Tenant Rights STATE: Delaware TYPE: Best Practices DATE: Unknown AUTHOR: League of Women Voters of Delaware and Delaware Housing Coalition DESCRIPTION: This manual is intended to…
Moving or Moving Up? Understanding Residential Mobility for Housing Choice Voucher Families in Illinois
TOPIC: Subsidized Housing STATE: Illinois TYPE: Research Report DATE: April 2011 AUTHOR: Illinois Assisted Housing Action Research Project DESCRIPTION: IAHARP assesses the realities of…
Resident Services in Subsidized Housing
This report examines the effectiveness of resident services across a number of outcomes and using a variety of methods, including interviews, case studies, surveys of property owners, and analysis of…
Boston Re-Housing Experience Highlights Program’s Successes and Limits
The small grants and short-term housing subsidies provided under the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP) have helped to shelter thousands of homeless families in the Boston…
The State of Permanent Supportive Housing in the Commonwealth of Virginia
TOPIC: Homelessness STATE: Virginia TYPE: Research Report DATE: November 2010 AUTHOR: Virginia Coalition to End Homelessness DESCRIPTION: This report outlines the status of permanent supportive…
Urban Institute Recommends Pilot Program to Test Efficacy of Housing Mobility Services
A new paper released in September 2010 by the Urban Institute reviews the efficacy of housing mobility assistance programs that assist people in overcoming barriers to using housing choice vouchers,…
Review of Research on Chicago’s Plan for Transformation
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have released a comprehensive overview of the research conducted on Chicago’s Plan for Transformation (Plan), an initiative to restructure the…
Report Confirms Link between Census and Flow of Federal Funds to States
A new report by the Brookings Institution, released on March 9, studies the link between decennial census data and the distribution of federal funds throughout the nation, and finds that states and…