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April 30, 2018

Calling All Housers: Help Recruit New Voices for the Opportunity Starts at Home Campaign!

Memo to Members

As NLIHC founder Cushing Dolbeare once said, “Housing is too important to be left to housers alone.” The Opportunity Starts at Home campaign’s mission is to build a national multi-sector movement…

April 23, 2018

Opportunity Starts at Home Launches E-Newsletter on May 1. Sign Up Today!

Memo to Members

Opportunity Starts at Home, a new national multi-sector housing campaign bringing together new voices to meet the housing needs of the lowest income people in American, will launch its monthly e-…

October 31, 2016

Study Finds Housing Discrimination and Potential Disparate Impact of Criminal Records Screening in DC

Memo to Members

A study conducted by the Equal Rights Center, a national civil rights organization, found evidence of housing discrimination against black women with criminal histories in the District of Columbia…

October 24, 2016

Social Networks’ Influence on Housing Decisions Can Perpetuate Segregation

Memo to Members

A study published in Cityscape titled “Housing Decisions Among Low-Income Hispanic Households in Chicago” by Laura Carrillo, Mary Pattillo, Erin Hardy, and Dolores Acevedo-Garcia finds that…

October 24, 2016

CAP Reports on Emerging Housing Needs of Extended Families

Memo to Members

A report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) titled Housing the Extended Family examines the implications of changing trends in family composition for housing policy. The report finds that…

August 22, 2016

Well-Being of Economically Disadvantaged Americans Similar to Poorer Countries

Memo to Members

A new paper by Luke Shaefer, Pinghui Wu, and Kathryn Edin titled Can Poverty in America Be Compared to Conditions in the World’s Poorest Countries? challenges the claim that economically…

August 15, 2016

Household Wealth Varies Significantly By Race

Memo to Members

The Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) and the Institute for Policy Studies released a report titled The Ever Growing Gap that documents racial inequities in wealth accumulation and…

August 8, 2016

Rents of Least Expensive Apartments Rising Faster than General Market

Memo to Members

An analysis by Zillow, titled Zillow Rent Index by Tier: Low-End Demand, High-End Supply, finds that the cost of low-rent apartments rose faster than rental costs in general over the past year in…

August 1, 2016

PAHRC Releases Annual Report: “Housing is a Foundation”

Memo to Members

The Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) released its third annual research report titled 2016 PAHRC Report: Housing is a Foundation. The report finds that vulnerable…

July 25, 2016

Scarcity of Accessible Housing for an Aging Population

Memo to Members

A study published in Housing Policy Debate titled “Housing for an Aging Population” by Sewin Chan and Ingrid Gould Ellen at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service finds a…

July 18, 2016

Subsidized Housing Production Prevents Regional Displacement Better than Market-Rate Production

Memo to Members

A report from the Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) at the University of California, Berkeley examines the relationship between housing production, affordability, and displacement in the San…

July 11, 2016

Homelessness and Housing Insecurity among Former Prisoners

Memo to Members

A study published in the Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences examines housing insecurity and homelessness among former prisoners. The study found high rates of housing insecurity…

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