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The Urban Institute recently published an article discussing how communities across the U.S. are striving to help residents exit poverty and achieve economic success, with the Urban Institute’s Upward Mobility Initiative guiding local leaders to advance mobility and racial equity. Housing...
New research in WorkRise highlights the persistent and growing issue of racial and gender segregation in low-wage jobs in the United States. Over the past 50 years the composition of the low-wage workforce has shifted significantly, with more than half of these workers now being people of color,...
Proximity to Gentrification Increases Nearby Policing, Finds Study Coauthored by CLPHA’s Malcolm Guy
A study on gentrification and policing coauthored by Malcolm Guy, CLPHA’s Senior Policy & Research Analyst, was recently published in Urban Studies journal. By integrating the literatures of urban studies, crime, and deviance, the study theorizes the linkage between nearby gentrification and...
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Since its inception in the Housing Act of 1937, public housing has faced decades of chronic underfunding and disinvestment. While the last 30 years has brough renewed commitment to new policies and investments in public housing, a cohesive national strategy to...
From the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority's website:
As the largest public housing provider in the state and with a capital backlog of more than $229 million, MPHA has a lot of construction and renovation work to complete. For the most complex projects, MPHA routinely contracts with local...
As the city’s cherry blossoms reached peak bloom, CLPHA welcomed more than one hundred members from across the country for our Spring Membership Meeting in Washington, D.C.
A highlight of our conference was keynote remarks from Toluse Olorunnipa, 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner, Co-Author of His Name...
Home Forward CEO Ivory Mathews joined To The Point host Jeffery K. Patterson for a conversation about the Reimagining Home Forward Initiative. Ivory discusses how the initative addresses systemic racism by "calling up, calling out" racial injustices in Home Forward's history and is forging an...
CLPHA is pleased to share our 2024 policy priorities.
The convergence of a global pandemic, a worldwide climate crisis, and growing economic inequality will have a lasting impact on the actions we take to protect lives, reduce disparities, meet energy needs, and prepare for disasters. These events...
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 new report from The Century Foundation examines how zoning laws affect housing and schooling opportunities in the Buffalo region. The report first examines how two Buffalo neighborhoods—Martin Luther King Park and East Aurora—differ in their demographic makeups, home prices, and in the...