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Housing concerns impact many older adults, but for the LGBTQ+ community there are added challenges that have built up over a lifetime, making their path to housing particularly difficult. Housing policy has failed to understand the diverse histories and experiences...
From the Chicago Housing Authority's press release:
Thomas King had earned an Associate Degree from Truman College and had transferred to Northeastern Illinois University where he’d been accepted into the Godwin School of Education. Everything was going well for the former restaurant worker who...
From Community College Daily:
In 2014, Tacoma Community College (TCC) and the Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) began a partnership to help housing-insecure students.
Funded through the U.S. Housing & Urban Development’s (HUD) Moving to Work program, the College Housing...
From the Chicago Housing Authority's press release:
Two-thousand dollars may not seem like a lot. But, for DePaul freshman Kelvin Jackson Pore, it was the difference between realizing his dreams and not.
“The CHA Scholarship was the deciding factor in him being able to go to college,” said his...
Jeffery K. Patterson sits down with Richard Monocchio, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of HUD's Office of Public and Indian Housing, to discuss what he has learned as he completes his first year in office. Jeff and Rich discuss the innovations brought by MTW programs, the importance of cross-...
HUD has published a preview of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to modernize regulations for the HOME Investment Partnership Program (HOME). The proposed changes would seek to expand access to community housing development organization (CHDO) set-aside funds...
Webinar Today at 1:00 p.m. ET about 2024 Application Process
Treasury and the IRS announced that applications will open at 9:00 a.m. ET on May 28 for the 2024...
A report authored by the Urban Institute examines options for housing quality inspection standards to address poor housing quality concerns and decrease landlord involvement in the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program. The report’s primary critique of the Housing Quality Standard (HQS) inspection...
A report published by the Terner Center argues that housing affordability is ill-defined and poorly framed, suggesting a shift in questioning away from asking “is a place affordable?” to “Who can afford this place?” In reframing the affordability metric, the author critiques the traditional 25%...