The 2012 American Community Survey (ACS) data, released on September 19, reveal that the number of renters in the U.S. continues to rise. According to the one-year data, there were 41.9 million…
Median household income and nationwide poverty rates remained largely unchanged between 2011 and 2012, according to the U.S. Census’ Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United…
A new U.S. Census Bureau report finds that the overall well-being of U.S. households has improved since 1992, as measured by a broad range of categories. At the same time, the percentage of…
The federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program has reinforced poverty concentration and racial segregation in the New York City region, according to a recently released report by the Fair…
The State of Housing in Black America explores recent housing trends in the African American community, including high rates of foreclosures and falling rates of homeownership, the impacts of these…
According to HUD’s Worst Case Housing Needs 2011: Report to Congress, the number of renters with worst case housing needs grew to a record 8.48 million in 2011, from a previous high of 7.10 million…
The National Housing Conference’s Center for Housing Policy (CHP) released the 2013 edition of Paycheck to Paycheck, examining data on housing affordability, with a focus on workers in the tourism…
A recent study, conducted by Professor Michael C. Lens at UCLA’s Department of Urban Planning and published in Urban Studies, finds that there is no correlation between the number of Housing Choice…
Economists from Harvard University and the University of California Berkeley’s new study The Equality of Opportunity Project uncovers disparities among peoples’ relative abilities to rise to a higher…
On June 6, the New York City Department of Homeless Services (DHS) released an evaluation of the Homebase Community Prevention Program’s effects upon use of homeless shelters and other services for…
On July 3, HUD released its Picture of Subsidized Housing data for 2009 through 2012. This comprehensive database allows users to sort and query HUD subsidized housing data by subsidy program, by…
A new interactive mapping tool released by the Urban Institute graphically demonstrates that poverty in U.S. urban areas looks dramatically different than it did thirty years ago. The tool combines U…
