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.
Housing in Central Appalachia (HAC, 2013)
This Housing Assistance Council Rural Research Report details the housing, economic and social characteristics of Central Appalachia.
Read MoreHousing an Aging Rural America: Rural Seniors and Their Homes (HAC, 2014)
This 2014 Housing Assistance Council report explores the state of housing for seniors in rural America using demographic and market data, and it offers resources and recommendations for addressing the challenges identified.
Read MoreThe Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes (NLIHC, 2017)
The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes highlights the critical housing needs of the nation’s lowest income households. More than 11.4 million extremely low income renter households in the U.S, whose income is no greater than 30% of their area median income (AMI) or the poverty guideline, face a shortage of 7.4 million affordable and available rental homes. Nationally, only 35 affordable homes are available for every 100 ELI renter households. A shortage exists in every state and major metropolitan area.
Read MoreImproving America’s Housing 2017: Demographic Change and the Remodeling Outlook (JCHS)
Rising house prices and incomes, an aging housing stock, and a pickup in household growth are all contributing to today’s strong home improvement market. Demand is robust in coastal metros with especially high house values and household incomes. Demographic trends should continue to buoy the market over the next decade, with the rising tide of older homeowners accounting for more than three-quarters of projected growth. Although the huge millennial generation is set to shape future spending trends, younger households have been slow to break into homeownership and the remodeling market.
Read MoreThe Impact of Housing Vouchers on Crime in US Cities and Suburbs (Urban Studies, 2014)
This paper tests the common belief that subsidized housing contributes to higher crime rates. To do this, panel data on over 200 US cities are used and fixed effects models are estimated to control for unobserved differences between cities that may affect both voucher use and crime.
Read MoreAging in rural communities: Older persons’ narratives of relocating in place to maintain rural identity (Online Journal of Rural Research & Policy, 2017)
Using data from 16 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with older persons in a rural community and directed content analysis, this study examines these older persons’ assessments of their current living situation, still seen as living rurally but now in a more populous location.
Read MoreMapping a Segregated City: A Lexington Fair Housing Council Report (LFHC, 2017)
The Lexington Fair Housing Council's report, Mapping a Segregated City: The Growth of Racially/Ethnically Concentrated Poverty & Affluence in Lexington, 1970-2014, identifies several long-term trends in the city of Lexington, KY regarding not only where affluence and poverty has become concentrated, but how those trends intersect with populations based on race and ethnicity.
Read MoreWaiting for Homeownership: Assessing the Future of Homeownership, 2015-2035 (JCHS, 2016)
This Harvard JCHS report analyzes the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) of the Current Population Survey for 1985-2015 to examine the determinants of changes in the homeownership rate, using shift-share analyses to measure the extent to which changing demographics explain the observed changes.
Read MoreGentrification Responses: A Survey of Strategies to Maintain Neighborhood Economic Diversity (NYU Furman Center, 2016)
This report examines strategies used by local governments to address rising housing costs and displacement of low-income households in gentrifying neighborhoods. To assist tenants at risk of displacement, the report details strategies to regulate the landlord/tenant relationship well as strategies to provide assistance for households that move.
Read MorePaycheck to Paycheck: More than Housing (NHC, 2017)
This research note expands on the Paycheck to Paycheck 2016 analysis and explores the context in which these salaries are being earned by examining household spending on a variety of items. Households must balance their spending on housing with their spending on other key household needs, such as transportation and healthcare. The lowest income households face the greatest challenges in balancing these competing needs.
Read MoreInclusionary Zoning Expands the Below-Market-Rate Housing Stock (HUD, 2016)
This HUD case study shows how San Francisco successfully utilized inclusionary zoning policies that ushered in more affordable housing options for its residents.
Read MoreMortgage Lending and Non-Borrower Household Income (Fannie Mae, 2015)
Recent literature on doubled-up families in the US has focused on households that take in and provide support for adult children or economically displaced relatives. From recent American Community Survey (ACS) data, however, Fannie Mae finds that in a growing number of households, a substantial proportion of total income comes from additional adults other than the homeowner / head of household or their spouse.
Read MoreInvesting in Affordable Housing to Promote Community Health (NHC, 2016)
This NHC profile assesses a Medicaid managed care organization’s $20 million investment in an affordable housing development in Phoenix, Arizona to tackle the severe affordable housing needs of their low-income members and the community.
Read MoreProjections and Implications for Housing a Growing Population: Older Households 2015-2035 (JCHS, 2016)
By 2035, more than one in five people in the US will be aged 65 and older. This growth will increase the demand for affordable, accessible housing that is well connected to services far beyond what current supply can meet. This Harvard JCHS report explores the future of older Americans.
Read More“You Don’t Have to Live Here”: Why Housing Messages Are Backfiring and 10 Things We Can Do About It (Enterprise/FrameWorks, 2016)
In this paper, Tiffany Manuel, PhD and Nat Kendall-Taylor, PhD lay out the challenges that advocates face and use new research to put forward evidence-based messaging recommendations that can be used to advance a strong affordable housing and community development agenda.
Read MoreSupporting Educational Achievement with Afterschool Programs Located in Affordable Housing (NHC, 2016)
A profile of the Eden Housing collaboration with the Partnership for Children and Youth by the National Housing Conference.
Read MoreBlending Housing Solutions for Youth and Older Adults (Urban Institute, 2016)
This Urban Institute article takes a look at a San Diego-area development that serves as a case study for multigenerational affordable housing.
Read MoreHousing the Extended Family (CAP, 2016)
A report from the Center for American Progress examines the characteristics of extended families and their housing conditions. The report also articulates policy recommendations that will spur the creation and preservation of affordable housing for extended families.
Read MoreThere Doesn’t Go the Neighborhood: Low-Income Housing has No Impact on Nearby Home Values (Trulia, 2016)
A study by Cheryl Young of Trulia found that low income housing funded by the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) did not impact the value of nearby homes. Her analysis included 3,083 LIHTC developments in 20 of the least affordable housing markets.
Read MoreHousing Spotlight: The Long Wait for a Home (NLIHC, 2016)
NLIHC's report Housing Spotlight: The Long Wait for a Home is about Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs) and Public Housing waiting lists.
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