Benefits of Living in High-Opportunity Neighborhoods (Urban Institute, 2012)
This Urban Institute white paper examines the benefits of the Moving to Opportunity program.
Read MoreThe Prospects for Guiding Housing Choice Voucher Households to High Opportunity Neighborhoods (Cityscape, 2010)
This University of Kansas white paper examines the question, "If the Moving To Opportunity model were to be used on a larger scale, would enough neighborhoods be available to offer good housing, employment, and educational opportunities?"
Read MoreOpportunity and Location in Federally Subsidized Housing Programs (PRRAC, 2011)
This PRRAC paper is intended to present a civil rights perspective on the federal policy discussion currently underway seeking to harmonize various subsidized housing development rules across the three agencies that sponsor low income housing (HUD, the Treasury Department, and the Department of Agriculture).
Read MoreRaising Wages and Rebuilding Wealth: Housing (CAP, 2016)
This chapter from a Center for American Progress report on wealth building in the 21st century focuses on the unique challenges of housing affordability.
Read MoreRural Veterans at a Glance (USDA Economic Research Service, 2013)
This USDA report provides a snapshot of veterans living in rural America.
Read MoreNonmetropolitan Outmigration Counties: Some Are Poor, Many Are Prosperous (USDA Economic Research Service, 2010)
This USDA study shows that out-migration counties stand out on two measures, indicating that quality of life factors inhibit in-migration: a lack of retirees moving in and local manufacturers citing the area’s unattractiveness as a problem in recruiting managers and professionals.
Read MoreLow-Skill Employment and the Changing Economy of Rural America (USDA Economic Research Service, 2005)
This USDA study reports trends in rural low-skill employment in the 1990s and their impact on the rural workforce.
Read MoreBaby Boom Migration and Its Impact on Rural America (USDA Economic Research Service, 2009)
This USDA-Rural Development report identifies the types of nonmetropolitan counties that are likely to experience the greatest surge in baby boom migration during 2000-20 and projects the likely impact on the size and distribution of retirement-age populations in destination counties.
Read MoreSocial Determinants of Health for Rural People (Rural Health Information Hub, 2022)
This topic guide, managed by the Rural Health Information Hub, focuses on the health inequities that rural residents experience, and how income-level, educational attainment, race/ethnicity, housing quality and other factors impact health.
Read MoreThe Ever-Growing Gap (Prosperity Now/IPS, 2016)
This CFED and Institute for Policy Studies report examines the growing racial wealth divide for Black and Latinos households and the ways that accelerating concentrations of wealth at the top compound and exacerbate this divide.
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