HousingForward Virginia’s Research Library is sorted by topic and geographic focus. All our resources can be sorted by geographic category: National, Virginia, and Other States. Our resources span some of the best and most widely cited housing and related research that is publicly available online. Our database is always growing as recent studies and reports are added, so please check back often.
The Preservation Guide Federal Housing and Homelessness Plans: Potential Tools in the Affordable Housing Preservation Toolbox (NLIHC, 2010)
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.
Read MoreTaking Stock: The Role of “Preservation Inventories” in Preserving Affordable Rental Housing (NHC, 2009)
This NHC Policy Brief examines the importance of creating and maintaining a database or inventory of affordable housing stock in a given locality.
Read MoreNational Housing Preservation Database (NLIHC/PAHRC, Ongoing)
The National Housing Preservation Database was created by the Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) and the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) in an effort to provide communities with the information they need to effectively preserve their stock of public and affordable housing.
Read MoreDriving to Opportunity: Understanding the Links among Transportation Access, Residential Outcomes, and Economic Opportunity for Housing Voucher Recipients (Urban Institute, 2014)
This research focuses on three areas: (1) the sorting of housing choice voucher recipients into different neighborhoods and variation in neighborhood sorting by automobile ownership, (2) the role of transportation in voucher users’ residential choices, and (3) how transportation access and residential location choice influence economic opportunity.
Read MoreExpanding Choice: Practical Strategies for Building a Successful Housing Mobility Program (Urban Institute/PRRAC, 2012)
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.
Read MoreImproving Neighborhood Location Outcomes in the Housing Choice Voucher Program: A Scan of Mobility Assistance Programs (Urban Institute, 2010)
The purpose of this research is to describe different types of housing mobility programs that help housing voucher holders move to better neighborhoods, and to provide recommendations for how a mobility demonstration should be structured.
Read MoreAccessory Dwelling Units: Case Study (HUD, 2008)
This case study explores how the adoption of ordinances, with reduced regulatory restrictions to encourage ADUs, can be advantageous for communities.
Read MoreOvercoming Opposition to Multifamily Rental Housing (JCHS, 2006)
This white paper identifies and examines the nature of local resistance to apartments, the reasons behind it and how it can be overcome.
Read MoreHigher-Density Development Fact and Myth (ULI, 2005)
This white paper examines widespread misconceptions related to higher-density development and seeks to dispel them with relevant facts and information.
Read MoreManufactured Housing as a Community- and Asset-Building Strategy (NeighborWorks/JCHS, 2002)
This paper explores advantages and disadvantages of manufactured housing for those entities whose mission is community development and asset building.
Read MoreDevelopment of an Index of Subsidized Housing Availability and its Relationship to Housing Insecurity (Housing Policy Debate, 2015)
This study utilized survey data from Children’s HealthWatch, county-level data from the U.S. Census Bureau, and subsidized housing data from HUD’s A Picture of Subsidized Households—2008.
Read MoreNational Survey of Statutory Authority and Practical Considerations for the Implementation of Inclusionary Zoning Ordinances (NAHB, 2007)
This National Association of Home Builders report provides an accessible guide to state statutory authority for municipal or county governments considering inclusionary zoning ordinances, as well as a comprehensive list of practical considerations that should be considered when developing and implementing an inclusionary zoning ordinance.
Read MoreDelivering the Promise of Inclusionary Housing: Best Practices in Administration and Monitoring (PolicyLink, 2007)
Outlines several of the most common tasks associated with ongoing administration of inclusionary housing programs and describes some of the common approaches to staffing and paying for implementation.
Read MoreAffordable by Choice: Trends in California Inclusionary Housing Programs (NPH, 2007)
This report by the Non-Profit Housing Association of California examines California's innovative inclusionary housing policies and how they have affected housing affordability in the community.
Read MoreInclusionary Housing, Incentives, and Land Value Recapture (Lincoln Institute, 2009)
This Lincoln Institute paper suggests that a better approach is to link Inclusionary Housing to the ongoing process of rezoning—either by the developer or by local government initiative—thus treating it explicitly as a vehicle for recapturing for public benefit some part of the gain in land value resulting from public action.
Read MoreInclusionary Housing in International Perspective: Affordable Housing, Social Inclusion, and Land Value Recapture (Lincoln Institute, 2010)
This book provides the reader with relevant information about and analysis of how inclusionary housing works in North America (US and Canada) and five European countries (UK, Ireland, France, Spain and Italy).
Read MoreIs Inclusionary Zoning Inclusionary? A Guide for Practitioners (RAND, 2012)
This report examines 11 Inclusionary Zoning programs across the United States to determine the extent to which the policies serve lower-income families and provide IZ recipients with access to low-poverty neighborhoods and residentially assign them to high-performing schools, thereby promoting the academic achievement and educational attainment of their children.
Read MoreExpanding Housing Opportunities through Inclusionary Zoning: Lessons from Two Counties (HUD, 2012)
This HUD PD&R pilot study examines how effective inclusionary zoning programs are as a strategy to increase the supply of affordable housing and further other housing- and community-related goals in two study sites: Montgomery County, MD and Fairfax County, VA.
Read MoreAfter the Downturn: New Challenges and Opportunities for Inclusionary Housing (NHC, 2013)
This paper examines how inclusionary housing policies fared during the nation’s historic housing downturn, as well as the major issues and opportunities that confront inclusionary housing today, as the housing market begins to recover.
Read MoreAchieving Lasting Affordability through Inclusionary Housing (Lincoln Institute, 2014)
This Lincoln Institute white paper analyzes a set of 20 inclusionary housing programs to highlight how long affordability periods, strong legal mechanisms, carefully designed resale formulas, dedicated program stewardship, and strategic partnerships can help preserve affordable homes produced through inclusionary housing programs for multiple generations.
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