The Community Affairs Office of the Federal Reserve System and the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution released on October 24 an in-depth study of concentrated poverty in 16 high…

A report released by the Center for Housing Policy on October 8 shows that many components of the typical household budget increased significantly faster than incomes between 1996 and 2006. During…

Americans 50 years old or older make up nearly a third of all mortgage delinquencies according to a new report from AARP Public Policy Institute. Of the 684,000 older American homeowners in…

Data released by the Census Bureau on August 26 suggest that 37.3 million Americans, or 12.5%, had incomes below the poverty level in 2007. The overall poverty rate was unchanged from 2006 but was…

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…