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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...
The White House recently released a report on how American Rescue Plan’s programs and funding have advanced equity across the nation. The report includes implementation case studies on lowering barriers to work, small business relief, securing dignified housing, equity for children and young...
A new study from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) found that many renters still struggled to pay rent despite the help provided by rental relief measures. The analysis found that while emergency rental assistance programs were helpful to families that lost income, rent hardship...
The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) released a new report showing how states and localities are leveraging $350 billion in Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) to invest in affordable housing and homelessness prevention and services. NLIHC tracks SLFRF...
The Terner Center for Housing Innovation released a report exploring how shelter use and perceived safety for individuals experiencing homelessness shifted during the pandemic. Through surveys of 287 homeless individuals in Sacramento between September – October 2021, researchers found that people...
The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) released a new report that summarizes emergency rental assistance (ERA) spending trends, projects when state and large local grantees may exhaust their ERA1 and ERA2 funds, and estimates the amount of funding the U.S. Department of the Treasury (...
In March 2022, the University of California at Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation released a report on California’s Homekey program, which allocated funding for public agencies to buy underused properties, namely hotels and motels, and convert them into housing for people...
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) reports that the enactment of $3.3 trillion COVID-19 relief bills in 2020 and another $1.3 trillion through the American Rescue Plan in 2021 helped make the COVID-19 recession the shortest on U.S. record and helped to fuel an economic recovery that has...
The Housing Crisis Research Collaborative (HCRC) published a report analyzing the purchases of multifamily and single-family rentals in Atlanta, Miami, and Tampa the year before and after the emergence of the pandemic. HCRC found that the pandemic housing crisis has resulted in incremental growth...
The Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) released its annual Housing Impact Report on employment trends of career-age families during the pandemic. Researchers found that in 2020, publicly supported homes improved the housing and financial security of 5.8...