At its 86th annual meeting, the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) passed a resolution to “support and affirm” the Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable housing campaign. “…
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University (JCHS) released The State of the Nation’s Housing 2018 on June 19. This year’s release marks the 30th anniversary of this annual report,…
NLIHC released Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing 2018 on June 13. The report compares rents and wages nationally and in every state, country, and city in the U.S. Out of Reach 2018 shows that…
Anti-hunger advocates are housing advocates! The Opportunity Starts at Home campaign website offers a new resource page on the connections between affordable housing and hunger alleviation in America…
To continue to broaden our multi-sector effort, the Opportunity Starts at Home campaign selected seven state partners to receive capacity-building grants to broaden and diversify each state’s housing…
A study by Matthew Palm, “Scale in Housing Policy: A Case Study of the Potential of Small Area Fair Market Rents,” published in Cityscape investigates the effects of Small Area Fair Market Rents (…
The Opportunity Starts at Home campaign’s monthly newsletter provides updates about the campaign’s progress, interesting and relevant research, current events, featured materials and videos, and much…
An article published in The New England Journal of Medicine sheds light on the displacement, disruption of services, and fatalities that occurred in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.…
National Education Association (NEA) President Lily Eskelsen García wrote an endorsement of the Opportunity Starts at Home campaign, articulating her organization’s strong commitment to protecting…
The Federal Reserve Board released its fifth annual Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households on May 22, based on a survey of more than 12,000 adults. Seventy-four percent of adults…
The Opportunity Starts at Home campaign launched on May 14 its own podcast, available now on iTunes. The podcast features in-depth interviews with leading experts about how housing…
A report by Carolina Reid from the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley, The Links Between Affordable Housing and Economic Mobility: The Experiences of Residents Living in Low-Income…
