Senate Bill Would Eliminate Nearly All Federal Housing Programs
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the “Welfare Reform and Upward Mobility Act” (S. 3047) that would eliminate nearly all federal affordable housing programs by consolidating them into a state block…
Survey Finds Widespread Support for Affordable Housing
The MacArthur Foundation released findings from its 2016 How Housing Matters Survey on June 16. Eighty-one percent of respondents believed that housing affordability is a problem, and 68% believed…
Federal Housing Expenditures Disproportionately Benefit Higher Income Homeowners
A publication by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), titled Chart Book: Federal Housing Spending Is Poorly Matched to Need, illustrates the extent to which federal housing expenditures…
Much More Needs to be Done to House Homeless Students
A report by Civic Enterprises and Hart Research Associates, Hidden in Plain Sight: Homeless Students in America’s Public Schools, analyzes the increase in housing instability among children in public…
Fact of the Week: Student Homelessness on the Rise 2007-2014
Source: Civic Enterprises. (2016). Hidden in Plain Sight: Homeless Students in America’s Public Schools. Ingram, et al. http://civicenterprises.net/MediaLibrary/Docs/HiddeninPlainSightOfficial.pdf…
Study Uses Craigslist to Examine Rental Housing Markets
A report titled New Insights into Rental Markets across the United States: Web Scraping Big Data to Analyze Craigslist by Geoff Boeing and Paul Waddell of the University of California, Berkeley, uses…
Fact of the Week: Craigslist Rental Listings Below Fair Market Rent in Ten Metro Areas
Source: Boeing, Geoff and Waddell, Paul (2016) New Insights into Rental Markets across the United States: Web Scraping Big Data to Analyze Craigslist. University of California, Berkeley. http…
Point of View: by Diane Yentel, President and CEO
Our country faces an alarming gap between the housing needs of our nation’s poorest households and what is available and affordable to them. The result is rising family homelessness in cities across…
Fact of the Week: States with the Largest Shortfall Between Two Bedroom Housing Wage and Renter Wage
Notes: The Two-Bedroom Housing Wage is the estimated full-time hourly wage a household would need to earn to afford a two-bedroom apartment at a HUD-estimated Fair Market Rent while spending no…
HUD Releases New ACS 5-Year Tabulations
HUD’s Economic and Market Analysis Division released special tabulations of the American Community Survey (ACS). This newly released resource provides the number of households with a housing problem…
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…