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This fall, the National Housing Law Project (NHLP) conducted a national survey of 119 legal aid and civil rights attorneys to observe how tenants are faring after the federal eviction moratorium ended in August 2021. This follow-up survey to the NHLP July 2020...
The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) released an updated report, Tracking the COVID-19 Economy’s Effects on Food, Housing, and Employment Hardships, which shows that key hardship indicators fell especially fast after the enactment of the American Rescue Plan on March 11,...
Released on October 21, the joint National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) and the Public Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) report 2021 Picture of Preservation estimates that more than 175,000 federally assisted homes could be lost from the nation’...
The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies recently published a paper synthesizing two national surveys conducted between February and April 2021 designed to explore the pandemic’s impact across different types of landlords, properties and rental markets.
In addition to...
Earlier this month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a report measuring the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and federal government response measures on the financial status of renters and homeowners. The research indicated that, unlike homeowners, the...
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 (...