Driving Home Economic Recovery, a new report from Live Local Marin, provides compelling new reasons to increase opportunities for people with strong roots in Marin to live closer to where…
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…
As homeowners lost millions of properties during the 2007 mortgage crisis, the ranks of private property investors swelled as they bought “real-estate owned” (REO) and other distressed properties.…
A study released by the Urban Institute in October comparing outcomes across seven shared equity homeownership programs finds that such programs are a sustainable long term homeownership option for…
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…
A new National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) report calls on HUD to broaden its strategy to reduce energy costs across public housing. In 2007, the department spent $5 billion annually, more than 15% of…
Two recent reports emphasize the need to preserve and construct affordable housing around new and proposed Transit Oriented Developments. Maintaining Diversity in America’s Transit-Rich Neighborhoods…
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…
TOPIC: Foreclosure
STATE: Illinois
TYPE: Research Report
DATE: November 2010
AUTHOR: Ami Shah and Katie Gottschall-Donohue, Housing Action Illinois
DESCRIPTION: The report…
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,…
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…
The U.S. Census Bureau released twelve new installments in its American Community Survey (ACS) Brief series on October 12. The briefs cover a variety of topics including housing, poverty, and…
