HUD released Understanding Whom the LIHTC Program Serves: Data on Tenants in LIHTC Units as of December 31, 2014. The report provides information on the income, race, disability status, and family…
A report by HUD staff Veronica E. Helms, Jon Sperling, and Barry L. Steffen, A Health Picture of HUD-Assisted Adults, finds that a higher proportion of HUD-assisted adults are seniors or single-…
A report by Maria Hanratty at the Housing Policy Debate, Do Local Economic Conditions Affect Homelessness? Impact of Area Housing Market Factors, Unemployment, and Poverty on Community Homeless Rates…
A report by Cheryl Young at Trulia, Housing Diversity: What Home Values Say About Inequality, finds a strong correlation between the unevenness of housing values across America’s 100 largest…
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ (CBPP) updated Chart Book: Federal Housing Spending is Poorly Matched to Need continues to show how federal housing expenditures disproportionately benefit…
NLIHC released its new report, The GAP: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, on March 2. The report finds a shortage of 7.4 million affordable and available rental homes for extremely low income (ELI)…
A study published in Cityscape titled “Vouchers and Neighborhood Distress” by Alex Schwartz, Kirk McClure, and Lydia Taghavi find that Housing Choice Vouchers (vouchers) utilized by female-headed…
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University (JCHS) released Projections & Implications for Housing a Growing Population: Older Households 2015-2035. JCHS projects that the number…
A study titled “The Effects of a Housing Mobility Experiment on Participants’ Residential Environments” by Quynh Nguyen, Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Nicole Schmidt, and Theresa Osypuk published this…
A study by Cheryl Young of Trulia found that low income housing funded by the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) did not impact the value of nearby homes. Her analysis included 3,083 LIHTC…
A report by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (NLCHP) found an increase in the criminalization of homelessness over the past 10 years in U.S. cities. NLCHP recommends more sensible…
A report by Elizabeth Kneebone at the Brookings Institution examines poverty trends in Republican and Democratic congressional districts. The report, titled Poverty Crosses Party Lines, demonstrates…
