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Ensuring that middle-income housing programs complement, rather than detract from, efforts to assist low-income renters is the key recommendation from The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University’s recently published study entitled Subsidizing the Middle: Policies, Tradeoffs, and...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report entitled Rental Housing: Opportunities Exist to Improve Oversight of Assistance to Survivors of Domestic Violence or Sexual Assault. The GAO report reveals that a majority of housing providers in their sample (45 out of 60) have...
Applications for First Cohort Due August 12
From the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH):
Are you involved in finding housing solutions for individuals reentering their communities? Apply for the Zero Returns to Homelessness Initiative. In partnership with the Council of State Governments...
August 19 | 2:00 p.m. ET
Register now for a webinar hosted by Emory University that will explore how housing as a social determinant of health affects individuals across the cancer care continuum. The webinar will feature Abra Lyons-Warren, CLPHA’s Director of Cross-Sector Initiatives, and Laura...
From Tacoma Weekly:
The bright colors of two new housing structures in town have been catching the eye of passersby lately, and now Hilltop Housing North and Hilltop Housing South are officially christened as Tacoma Housing Authority’s largest affordable housing project in 20 years...
HUD has opened the FY2025 Rate Reduction Incentive (RRI) application period. The RRI is a financial incentive for PHAs that take action beyond normal public participation in rate-making proceedings, such as well-head purchases or natural gas, administrative appeals, or legal action to...
From CBS News Fort Worth:
The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs recently announced more than $95 million in housing tax credits to develop or renovate 63 rental properties across Texas to address the affordable housing need.
Eleven of the developments are slated for...
From the Los Angeles Times:
Teenage residents at Jordan Downs, one of L.A.’s largest public housing communities, will earn a paycheck this summer while learning hands-on skills like carpentry and welding, launching them on pathways to careers in industries facing strong demand and a critical lack...
From the Chicago Housing Authority's press release:
Davora Buchanan was shy while growing up in Trumbull Park Homes. She kept to herself and read. Then she attended CHA’s Learn and Earn program, where teenage students explore career fields like entrepreneurship, arts and technology while...
Learn More at 10yearroadmap.org
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...