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A newly published HUD study examined housing trajectories of family households with children who leave HUD’s Public Housing and Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) programs, specifically focusing on housing tenure, housing stability, and neighborhood attainment. The findings suggest that when people move...
NLIHC’s annual report, The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, finds that the lowest-income renters in the U.S. face a shortage of 7.3 million affordable and available rental homes. As a result, nearly three-quarters of renters with extremely low incomes are severely cost-burdened, spending more...
A study published in the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society asks the fundamental question of why the economy’s equilibrium mechanisms have thus far failed to lift communities out of persistent poverty. The author theorizes that areas suffering from persistent poverty exhibit...
A study published in the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society asks the fundamental question of why the economy’s equilibrium mechanisms have thus far failed to lift communities out of persistent poverty. The author theorizes that areas suffering from persistent poverty exhibit...
The Harvard Joint Center released its annual America’s Rental Housing Report, confirming that rental unaffordability reached unprecedented levels, affecting 22.4 million households in 2022. This marked an increase of two million households since 2019, with 12.1 million households experiencing...
In a recent report released by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, “Housing America’s Older Adults 2023," researchers delve into the critical issues surrounding the increasing population of older adults in the United States. The report reveals that the number of older adults, defined as...
From Health Affairs:
This article presents early findings on the causal effects of a housing voucher on family stress, which plays an important role in children’s healthy development. Using the Housing and Children’s Healthy Development study, which is the only randomized controlled...
From the San Diego Housing Commission's press release:
Communities with lower income, higher rental cost burden, a higher proportion of Black and Hispanic households, more single-parent households, and higher unemployment levels are more likely to experience evictions in the City of San Diego,...
A study published in the Journal of Housing Economics uses unique administrative data to estimate voucher lease-up rates and search times for about 85,000 new voucher recipients each year in 433 metropolitan housing authorities from 2015 to 2019. The study found that only 60% of recipients...
A joint report by the Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) and the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) analyzes the risks that natural hazards pose to federally assisted homes and their communities. The authors used the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA)...