This article explores the issue of mandatory vs. voluntary inclusionary housing policy by examining program experience and studies from across the country.
“Opening the Door to Inclusionary Housing” is a guide for municipal governments and affordable housing advocates to explore the feasibility of Inclusionary Housing as a tool to address the issue of affordable housing in their community.
Practitioners and community advocates working at the intersection of housing and health have a unique role to play, both in guaranteeing quality affordable housing remains available for people of all incomes, and in making sure new investments in neighborhoods contribute to a healthy environment.
This Guide is designed to help you, as a resident or advocate for affordable housing issues, learn how you can work locally to help save, or preserve, federally assisted and public housing units that would otherwise be demolished or converted to market-rate housing.
Drawing on the best available research and model programs from across the country, this toolkit is designed to provide practical advice for a variety of different types of organizations.
This Urban Institute report, funded by HUD, documents the outcomes of Veterans served by the Veterans Homelessness Prevention Demonstration Program, one element of the Obama Administration's signature initiative to end Veteran Homelessness.
This 2015 Urban Institute research report uses economic mobility as a lens for examining how housing policies can address challenges of inequality in society today. It also explores five categories of housing policy levers that affect economic mobility.