In Nearly Every State, Full-Time Workers Must Earn More Than $15 an Hour to Afford a Two-Bedroom Apartment
Source: National Low Income Housing Coalition, “Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing,” nlihc.org/oor. Note: This map displays the hourly wages that a full-time worker must earn (working 40 hours…
Housing Quality Law Underenforced in New York City Housing Court
A study in the Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, “The Limits of Good Law: A Study of Housing Court Outcomes,” finds that few renters in New York City eviction cases are…
Nearly 46,000 Units of Project-Based Section 8 Housing Lost Since 2005
A study prepared for HUD titled Opting In, Opting Out a Decade Later found that nearly 46,000 housing units subsidized by project-based Section 8 rental contracts were lost between 2005 and 2014…
Fact of the Week: HUD-Assisted Housing in Walkable Neighborhoods, but also Compromised Quality
Note: Compromised quality is the combination of poor quality school within ½ mile, home values below the area median, and high rate (40% or more) of African-American or Hispanic segregation.…
Ongoing Homelessness and Late-Life Homelessness Associated with Increased Risk of Death among Older Adults
A new study from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, San Francisco, “Factors Associated with Mortality among Homeless Older Adults in California,” assessed…
Study Finds No Link Between Better Job Proximity and Earnings Among Housing Choice Voucher Households
A paper published in Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, “Does Jobs Proximity Matter in the Housing Choice Voucher Program?,” found no evidence that Housing Choice Voucher…