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This month, two members of the Housing Crisis Research Center (HCRC) - Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley and the NYU Furman Center – released a comparative brief documenting the declines in rent payments and the increase in rental arrears among a...
A recent poll commissioned by the Opportunity Starts at Home campaign, a bipartisan group led by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and other steering committee partners, found that nearly 9 in 10 (89%) of ...
In a report published by HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research (PD&R) earlier this summer, researchers discuss the state and local regulatory barriers to increasing the overall stock of housing in the nation’s highest productivity metropolitan areas while also offering...
The Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) at the University of Minnesota published a study in February examining the benefits and risks of implementing a rent stabilization program in Minneapolis found that a rent stabilization program should be paired with eviction...
In the current issue of Cityscape from HUD PD&R, researchers Alex Schwartz from The New School and Kirk McClure from the University of Kansas seek to explore how the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program will utilize Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (...
State of the Nation’s Report
Earlier this month, the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies released their annual State of the Nation’s Housing report. After a year of dealing with the global COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic fallout, many were eager to dive into the...
In a study published earlier this year from the University of Pennsylvania, researchers were able to provide evidence linking a history of evictions to depressive symptoms in adolescents and young adults. The study suggests a clear increase of observed depression in those who experienced...
National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) ERA Dashboard and Resources
The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) has been actively collecting data on emergency rental assistance (ERA) programs throughout nation over this past year. The dashboard ...
Mapping the Need for Pandemic Assistance. The Urban Institute has created a database where users can search the U.S. by county or Continuum of Care (CoC) to view the needs of local residents based on indices related to housing instability prevalence, COVID-19 impacts, and...
A new report from HUD’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) provides a review of landlord incentives used by MTW agencies to recruit and retain landlords. HUD sent an online survey to all 39 original MTW agencies, which 34 agencies completed. According to the survey, 28 or 82% of...