Supporting Educational Achievement with Afterschool Programs Located in Affordable Housing
A profile of the Eden Housing collaboration with the Partnership for Children and Youth by the National Housing Conference.
Read MoreBlending Housing Solutions for Youth and Older Adults
This Urban Institute article takes a look at a San Diego-area development that serves as a case study for multigenerational affordable housing.
Read MoreThe Impact of Homelessness Prevention Programs on Homelessness
A study published in Science by William Evans, James Sullivan, and Melanie Wallskog finds that temporary financial assistance to families at imminent risk of homelessness reduces the likelihood that they will enter a homeless shelter by 76%. The benefits of the temporary financial assistance, including lower shelter costs, lower costs of other public services, and better educational and health outcomes, outweigh the costs.
Read MoreAging Gracefully: The PACE Approach to Caring for Frail Elders in the Community
This Commonwealth Fund brief provides an overview of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) model, which offers participants comprehensive medical and long-term services and supports and highlights include Mountain Empire’s PACE, which serves older adults in rural Virginia.
Read MoreThe Double Crisis: A Statistical Report on Rental Housing Costs and Affordability in Baltimore City, 2000-2013
Analyzing the most recent data from the American Community Survey and American Housing Survey, Johns Hopkins University graduate student Philip M.E. Garboden pinpoints a “Double Crisis” in Baltimore’s affordable rental market: an income crisis and a rent crisis.
Read MoreState of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods 2015
The State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods report, published annually by the NYU Furman Center, provides a compendium of data and analysis about New York City’s housing, land use, demographics, and quality of life indicators for each borough and the city’s 59 community districts.
Read MoreBalancing Affordability and Opportunity
This report shows that shared equity programs are successful in creating homeownership opportunities for lower income families that allow purchasers to accumulate assets, while, at the same time, creating a stock of affordable housing that remains within the financial reach of subsequent lower income homebuyers.
Read MoreHomeownership Today and Tomorrow: Building assets while preserving affordability
This paper looks at innovative local affordable homeownership programs around the country that have found ways to make ownership accessible and also much safer and more sustainable, while concurrently achieving long-term affordability.
Read MoreShared Equity Homeownership Evaluation: Case Study of Thistle Community Housing
This case study analyzes outcomes for Thistle Community Housing’s Community Land Trust, which started providing homeownership opportunities in the Boulder area to low- and moderate income households in 1996.
Read MoreShared Equity Homeownership Evaluation: Case Study of Champlain Housing Trust
This case study analyzes outcomes for the Champlain Housing Trust (CHT), which started providing homeownership opportunities in Burlington, Vermont to low- and moderate-income families in 1984.
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