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Members-only Meeting on May 20 at 3:00 p.m. ET Will Gather Feedback
HUD has published a proposed rule on Reducing Barriers to HUD-Assisted Housing. CLPHA will host a members-only session to gather feedback on the proposed rule on May 20 at 3:00 p.m. ET. CLPHA encourages its members to...
A new white paper by Thomas Shay Hill of Harvard University’s Joint Center on Housing Studies examines how Herbert Hoover’s Department of Commerce helped shape America’s understanding of the housing sector and laid the foundations for our current frameworks of housing data. In three parts,...
A new post from HUD PD&R details how federal interventions to stabilize housing during the pandemic prevented a rise in homelessness. The post also notes that since much of the pandemic-related assistance is expiring, the U.S. again faces a rise in homelessness. The authors cite Emergency...
A new article published in the Journal of Urban Affairs investigates how Black, Hispanic, and Asian households disproportionately fell behind on housing payments during the COVID-19 pandemic. The higher likelihood of having late payments was partially a byproduct of pre-pandemic inequalities, but...
On March 13, 2023, the Biden Administration released its full fiscal year 2024 (FY24) budget request. Generally for public housing and related programs, the proposal is a modest increase over previous years. The Administration requests a total $73.3 billion in discretionary funding for the...
A new article from the Urban Institute outlines how federal policymakers can boost affordable housing production in exclusionary communities. Decades of under-investment and insufficient construction levels have led to a major shortage of affordable housing. In some areas, this inadequate...
New analysis from the Urban Institute highlights the risk that families in neglected public housing units face from climate change. The majority of public housing residents are people of color, older adults, or people with disabilities, and generations of disinvestment have displaced public...
A new paper published by the Housing Crisis Research Collaborative found that renters living in communities of color, and in high-poverty, lower-income, and lower-rent neighborhoods were more likely to experience financial distress. The authors also found that emergency rental assistance (ERA) was...
Dr. Jenny Schuetz, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute and prominent housing policy and urban economics analyst, recently authored a blog post in which she calls for better research into the efficacy of housing policy reforms. The post notes that recent legislative actions in places from...
President Biden signed the FY23 funding bill, HR 2167, into law after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023,” on December 23, 2022. The bill’s adoption finalized weeks of tense negotiations during the lame duck session of Congress after the mid-term...