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Project-Based Vouchers (PBVs) were under contract to subsidize over 300,000 housing units in 2022. With over 60% of all medium and large PHAs operating a PBV program, and more than 1 out of every 9 households receiving voucher subsidies living in a PBV unit, the PBV program has grown rapidly and...
HUD’s Worst-Case Housing Needs Report to Congress measures the extent of unmet housing needs across the United States. The 19th biennial report found that in 2021, a record 8.53 million unassisted renter households had incomes below half the local median income and paid over half their income for...
A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) outlines how HUD should improve its data collection to better understand requests for reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities and how PHAs are meeting these requests across the Public Housing, Voucher, and PBRA programs....
A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) details how enhanced coordination between HUD and FEMA could improve disaster shelter and housing assistance. The study examines how HUD can improve coordination with FEMA and local housing providers using its existing programs, as...
A new brief from the Urban Institute offers lessons from six cities and counties on using the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)’s $350 billion State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) for affordable housing purposes. The brief utilizes program data reported by SLFRF recipients along with...
From the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley:
As communities across the country grapple with rising housing costs and widening inequality, state legislatures are taking action and seeking solutions to encourage housing production by targeting one key factor: restrictive local land...