HUD-assisted households are more likely to be female-headed, minority, older, and have lower levels of education when compared to all renters that were income-eligible for HUD rental assistance in…
African-Americans in Cleveland face foreclosure nearly four times as often as whites do. Similarly, those earning less than half of the median income (AMI) are more than twice as likely to be in…
Roughly 72%, or $540 billion, of all federal program funding aimed at developing human capital, raising work effort, and/or encouraging saving, benefits mainly middle and upper income households.…
TOPIC: Housing Need
STATE: Utah
TYPE: Slideshow
DATE: July 2008
AUTHOR: Michael Glen, Utah Division of Housing and Community Development
DESCRIPTION: Details Utah’s housing profile, projected…
The most recent Housing Vacancy Survey, released by the U.S. Census for the first quarter of 2008, shows that the vacancy rate for ownership units has risen to 2.9%, the highest since these data have…
A report released this week by the Louisiana Justice Institute and the Children’s Defense Fund finds that 55% of surveyed FEMA trailer residents are unsure where they will live and could easily…
TOPIC: Subsidized Housing
STATE: Maine
TYPE: Research Report
DATE: May 2008
AUTHOR: Maine Center for Economic Policy
DESCRIPTION: This report details the results of a survey of 100%…
Shelter Partnership, a nonprofit dedicated to ending homelessness in Los Angeles County, released a strategic plan that included the first-ever comprehensive study of the older homeless population in…
The Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA), an NLIHC partner, has released recent reports on the state’s voucher program and the state’s approach to the foreclosure crisis.
A Model For…
The Indiana Association for Community Economic Development (IACED), a NLIHC partner, has released Indiana Property Taxes: Is Property Tax Relief or Tax Restructuring the Solution? In the face of…
In a supplemental report released the week of February 25, HUD reports that the number of disabled non-elderly renter households with worst case housing needs in 2005 was 1.1 million, more than…
On February 7, 2008, the National Multi Housing Council (NMHC) released its latest Quarterly Survey which shows that the current turmoil in the financial market is having mixed effects on the…
