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Seventeen months after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, public housing agencies (PHAs) have been forced to quickly adjust their operational policies and procedures to protect their staff, residents and property owners, while...
In a recent report, Breaking the Homelessness-Jail Cycle with Housing First, the Urban Institute presents its findings after five years (2016 to 2020) of evaluating the Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative (Denver SIB). The report on a randomized controlled trial...
On July 6, HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) published the second report on the national evaluation of the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program titled Work, Engagement, and Well-being at the Midpoint: Findings from the Family Self-Sufficiency Evaluation.
In 2012, HUD...
National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) ERA Dashboard and Resources
The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) has been actively collecting data on emergency rental assistance (ERA) programs throughout nation over this past year. The dashboard ...
Mapping the Need for Pandemic Assistance. The Urban Institute has created a database where users can search the U.S. by county or Continuum of Care (CoC) to view the needs of local residents based on indices related to housing instability prevalence, COVID-19 impacts, and...
In its annual report on the national and state-level shortage of affordable housing, the National Low-Income Housing Coalition found in this year’s The Gap report that the affordability gap continues, with again no state having an adequate supply of affordable homes for extremely low-...
The Effect of COVID-19 on Household Income Among HCV Households. A new report in Cityscape uses HUD administrative data to look at the volume of interim recertification requests at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. According to the report, 553,500 households...
IDENTIFYING AREAS FOR PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITIES TO EXPAND PANDEMIC-RELATED RESOURCES
In order to identify and address COVID-19 needs and ongoing priorities for our PHA members, CLPHA conducted a survey in January 2021. The survey received responses from 35 of our PHA members, who provided data...
This week the NYU Furman Center, Housing Initiative at Penn, and the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) released recommendations for “Advancing Racial Equity in Emergency Rental Assistance Programs,” based on a report co-authored by the...
HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) has posted a new report which serves as a reminder that households receiving federal housing assistance are particularly vulnerable to worse outcomes if infected with COVID-19. The prevalence of...