This brief describes the opportunities for anchor institutions to spur neighborhood revitalization and provides specific guidance for how affordable housing and community development organizations can successfully partner with these anchor institutions to improve neighborhoods and expand housing opportunities.
Read MoreThis report explores the challenges and benefits of manufactured housing. The report finds that some types of manufactured housing offer significant affordability benefits to lower income households and points to the improved quality of this type of housing that was manufactured after 1976.
Read MoreThis report focuses on both Washington state and the nation and highlights some of the LIHTC program’s accomplishments, such as creating nearly 2.9 million affordable rental homes.
Read MoreThis DC Fiscal Policy Institute analysis uses data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey from 2007 through 2014 to examine income disparities, and income trends in DC and the other 49 largest U.S. cities, as well as four neighboring counties and the City of Alexandria, VA.
Read MoreThis PAHRC research spotlight explores how housing agency waiting lists do and do not reflect the demand for housing assistance, since many waiting lists are closed and only capture families that decide to apply for assistance.
Read MoreThis study directly explores the link between affordable housing and health care through the lens of several national health reform metrics: better connection to primary care, fewer emergency department visits, improved access to and quality of care, and lower costs.
Read MoreA report by David Cooper of the Economic Policy Institute, titled Balancing Paychecks and Public Assistance: How Higher Wages Would Strengthen What Government Can Do, finds that raising the federal minimum wage to $12 per hour by 2020 would reduce public assistance expenditures by $17 billion annually. The author suggests these savings could be used to strengthen the existing safety net of housing and other assistance programs.
Read MoreThis study explores how households in the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration fared after leaving housing assistance.
Read MoreThis primer explores the key issues for the use of public land in meeting affordable housing and other community needs; some examples of how public lands have been used in the Washington metropolitan region; and implications for policies that could systematize the prioritization of public land for affordable housing and other public benefits.
Read MoreThe purpose of this paper is to assess how the District can more effectively use its own land to better address the needs of D.C. residents and build a more sustainable and economically integrated city.
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