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Inclusionary zones incentivize homebuilders to rent households to lower-income households for BMR housing development, according to a new a paper using the Terner Center’s Housing Policy Simulator to estimate the potential impacts of different Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) requirements on housing...
Washington was able to reduce youth homelessness by 40% over 6 years through measures such as direct cash transfers, a new report from the Washington State Department of Commerce and A Way Home Washington found. The report begins with an analysis of disproportional Youth Homelessness demographics...
A new report from the Terner Center looks at the existing research on climate and housing in the U.S. in two key areas: how housing decarbonization and production strategies can reduce pollution to mitigate climate change, and how climate change impacts renters, homeowners, and the broader housing...
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...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report on eviction data collection. Estimates suggest that millions of renters are evicted each year, but according to the report, there is little comprehensive data on evictions. Estimates are primarily based on two sources: court records...
A study from the RAND Corporation evaluates the effect crime-free housing policies (CFHPs) had on crime rates and evictions over the past 25 years and explores the implementation of these polices. The authors also investigate how population demographics differ between the municipalities with CFHPs...