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…
From May 1 through May 8, thousands of advocates in dozens of cities and towns across the country raised their voices in support of increased investments in affordable homes for those with the…
The Opportunity Starts at Home campaign held a multi-sector event on May 10 in Washington D.C. to officially introduce its “Opportunity Roundtable.” More than eighty individuals attended the event,…
An article published in Housing Policy Debate by Ingrid Gould Ellen and Keren Mertens Horn, “Points for Place: Can State Governments Shape Siting Patterns of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit…
The Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable housing campaign will be hosting an informational session on Thursday, May 10 from 3:00-5:00 pm ET at the 20 F Street NW Conference Center in…
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has extended the deadline for commenting on proposed changes to the regulations for the Affordable Housing Program (AHP) administered by the eleven Federal…
A research brief by Jenny Schuetz and Cecile Murray of the Brookings Institution, “Unpacking the ‘housing shortage’ puzzle: How does housing enter and exit supply?,” shows that net additions to the U…
