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On September 30, the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) oversight of CARES Act funds. The CARES Act appropriated $12.4 billion to HUD to help...
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...
On September 14, the U.S. Census Bureau published its 2020 income and poverty report, which evaluates national economic trends to understand their effect on the well-being of households, families, and individuals. Each year the report presents annual estimates of...
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...
The federal moratorium on evictions ended on August 26 after a 6-3 vote by the Supreme Court. The moratorium had been implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and extended by the Biden administration days after it was set to expire on July 31. Now that...
HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) recently announced the publication of midpoint findings from the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program evaluation. In 2012, HUD PD&R commissioned the first nationwide study of the FSS program that incorporates a randomized...
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 (...
Earlier this July, the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) released their annual Out of Reach 2021: The High Cost of Housing report. Every year, this national report provides researchers and advocates with important data demonstrating the widening gap between where minimum wage...
The Urban Institute published a report last month that attempts to examine past HUD and PIH programs to better instruct more equitable development initiatives within the future public housing industry. Titled An Equitable Strategy for Public Housing Redevelopment,...