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Affordable Housing Study Report (LWV-VA, 2020)

The League of Women Voters Virginia's Affordable Housing Committee conducted this study independently to help the LWV-VA arrive at a unanimous position on affordable housing. The study found high housing cost burden among very-low-income and extremely-low-income households, a severe shortage of rental units affordable to very-low-income and extremely-low-income households, minimum wages that could not support housing costs, and high rates of eviction in Virginia's poorest cities.

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Confronting Concentrated Poverty With a Mixed-Income Strategy (HUD, 2013)

HUD's mixed income housing program is a federal policy aimed at deconcentrating poverty in affordable housing developments. This Federal report details the theory and programmatic details for Mixed Income Housing.

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Best Planning Practices: Metropolitan Transportation Plans (US DOT/FHWA, 2012)

Regionalism and a regional approach to transportation is key to deconcentrating poverty. This Federal report summarizes best practices in creating regional transportation entities.

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Rethinking Poverty: Recommendations From Virginia’s Poverty Reduction Task Force (2010)

In 2009 and 2010 the Commonwealth of Virginia convened a task force to look comprehensively at State-level policies aimed at alleviating poverty for Virginians. This summary report details existing programs, challenges and ultimately recommendations.

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A New Wave of School Integration: Districts and Charters Pursuing Socioeconomic Diversity (Century Foundation, 2016)

In the decades since Civil Rights-era desegregation policies, school systems have become increasingly more segregated, leading to concentrated poverty and a cycle of poverty. This report is a policy proposal to re-integrate school systems in an attempt to fulfill the promise of the desegregation policies of the past.

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Equitable Transit-Oriented Development: Examining the progress and continued challenges of developing affordable housing in opportunity and transit-rich neighborhoods (PRRAC, 2015)

Pairing affordable housing development with public transportation access is a best practice in planning and poverty deconcentration. This report evaluates how significantly this practice has been adopted by the affordable housing development industry and what room there is for improvement.

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Norfolk Plan to Reduce Poverty (City of Norfolk, 2014)

Norfolk's poverty rate was double the national average and in 2014 the City issued a comprehensive, holistic approach to address concentrated poverty and the cycle of poverty in Norfolk. The report develops concrete steps the City will undertake to alleviate poverty through education, workforce development and neighborhood revitalization.

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Building Opportunity II: A Fair Housing Assessment of State Low Income Housing Tax Credit Plans (PRRAC, 2015)

2015 report that evaluates and ranks State LIHTC QAPs based on their efforts to deconcentrate poverty through their award of LIHTC allocations.

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Next Generation Community Revitalization: A Work in Progress (Bridgespan Group, 2011)

Six national models used in recent decades to comprehensively address community revitalization are evaluated in this report. These models approach poverty alleviation through a multi-pronged approach including social services, education, housing, etc.

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Evaluation of Housing for Health Permanent Supportive Housing Program (RAND, 2017)

RAND conducted a formative evaluation to provide early feedback on program implementation and performed an outcome evaluation examining the effects of the PSH program on county service utilization and service costs.

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