A comprehensive study of combined housing and transportation costs released this week by the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) reports that only 39% of American communities are affordable for…
A new report by the Brookings Institution, released on March 9, studies the link between decennial census data and the distribution of federal funds throughout the nation, and finds that states and…
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on February 16 that highlights the extent to which 2005 disaster programs funded by federal dollars disproportionately favored homeowner…
A study released in December reports that housing cost burdens for households have increased, despite declines in housing prices across the nation. The report, produced by the Center for Housing…
The housing market did not begin to work off its inventory of vacant for-rent and for-sale homes in the last quarter of 2009, according the most recent data from the Housing Vacancy Survey, released…
TOPIC: Manufactured Housing
STATE: California
TYPE: Research Report
DATE: February 2010
AUTHOR: Dewey Bandy, Deputy Director, California Coalition for Rural Housing
DESCRIPTION: The second…
Poverty rates across the country are growing faster in the suburbs than in cities and rural areas, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program.…
A recent study prepared by the Center for Housing Research at Virginia Tech and published in the Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA) concludes that while market factors…
Increased rental vacancy rates nationwide have not translated into greater availability of homes affordable to low income households and the assisted stock in particular has remained …
TOPIC: Housing Need
STATE: California
TYPE: Research Report
DATE: January 2010
AUTHOR: Hertz Research on behalf of the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California
DESCRIPTION: The…
In this paper we examine the various types of affordable hous- ing options and programs needed to meet the differing needs of District of Columbia residents and their neighborhoods. We refer to this…
On December 15, the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) issued a report, “Options for Jobs Legislation: Providing $1 Billion to Prevent Homelessness,” that uses the example …
