Research from Children’s HealthWatch shows public investment in housing—including housing for homeless families and rental assistance for food-insecure families—improves the health outcomes of vulnerable infants and young children and lowers health care spending.
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 issue of the Housing Assistance Council's magazine Rural Voices takes a look at rural homelessness around the country.
Read MoreThe Economic Report of the President is an annual report written by the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. An important vehicle for presenting the Administration’s domestic and international economic policies, it provides an overview of the nation's economic progress with text and extensive data appendices.
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 new study supported in part by the Center for Poverty Research has found that redistricting can increase educational inequality, increase segregation within schools and hurt already disadvantaged students and communities.
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