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 as a Health Care Investment (NHC, 2016)
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 MoreUnderstanding the Myths and Realities of Manufactured Housing (VHA, 2016)
This 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 MoreThe Housing Tax Credit: Addressing the Challenges of Housing and Homelessness (Office of U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, 2016)
This 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 MoreA City Breaking Apart: The Incomes of DC’s Poorest Residents Are Falling, While Economic Growth is Benefiting Better-Off Residents (DCFPI, 2016)
This 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 MoreRural Homelessness (Rural Voices – HAC, 2016)
This issue of the Housing Assistance Council's magazine Rural Voices takes a look at rural homelessness around the country.
Read More2016 Economic Report of the President
The 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 MoreHousing Agency Waiting Lists and the Demand for Housing Assistance (PAHRC, 2016)
This 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 MoreHealth in Housing: Exploring the Intersection Between Housing and Health Care (ECP, 2016)
This 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 MoreBalancing Paychecks and Public Assistance: How Higher Wages Would Strengthen What Government Can Do (EPI, 2016)
A 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 MoreSchool Closures and Redistricting Can Reproduce Educational Inequality (UC Davis, 2014)
This 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.
Read MoreThe Effects of Housing on the Local Economy (HFV, 2011)
This HousingForward Virginia report explores the connection between housing and economic development on the local level.
Read MoreIntersections Between Child Welfare & Homeless Systems (2006)
This PowerPoint presentation summarizes findings from two scholarly studies on child welfare and homelessness in New York City. The two studies were published in 2004 and 2005 by Children & Youth Services Review and Social Service Review, respectively.
Read MoreKeeping Families Together: An evaluation of the implementation and outcomes of a pilot supportive housing model for families involved in the child welfare system (CSH, 2010)
This report offers an evaluation of Keeping Families Together (KFT), a pilot initiative from the Corporation of Supportive Housing (CSH). KFT tests the impact of permanent supportive housing for families with previous involvement with homelessness and the child welfare system.
Read MoreThe Role of Supportive Housing in Homeless Children’s Well-Being (UMN, 2012)
This report from the University of Minnesota's Center for Advanced Studies on Child Welfare looks at the educational outcomes of children in family supportive housing. The study compares the academic performance of 70 students in supportive housing versus 342 homeless students.
Read MoreHomelessness and Its Effects on Children (Family Housing Fund, 1999)
This report from the Family Housing Fund catalogs the myriad impacts homelessness has on children. The author focuses first on how homelessness affects different age groups: prenatal, infants, toddlers, preschoolers and school-aged children.
Read MoreMore Than A Roof Over Their Heads: A Toolkit for Guiding Transition Age Young Adults to Long-term Housing Success (MHA-NYC, 2011)
This toolkit offers suggestions on how to help transition-age young adults enter permanent housing. It outlines concrete ways in which organizations can better engage youths (age 18-25) aging out of the foster care system.
Read MoreWhat Happens to Housing Assistance Leavers? (Cityscape, 2015)
This study explores how households in the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration fared after leaving housing assistance.
Read MoreHospital Costs Associated with Homelessness in New York City (NEJM, 1998)
This 1998 article explores whether homeless individuals have higher medical costs than low-income individuals in housing. To answer this question, the researchers compare thousands of medical records for homeless and low-income individuals in New York City.
Read MoreSupportive Housing and the Public Health Crisis of Homelessness (CSH, 2000)
This study, fully titled "Supportive Housing and Its Impact on the Public Health Crisis of Homelessness," evaluates the Corporation for Supportive Housing’s Health, Housing Integrated Services Network" (HHISN). Researchers tracked the public service use of 253 chronically homeless HHISN participants.
Read MoreDirect Access to Housing (SFDPH, 2004)
This summary report assesses the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s Direct Access to Housing (DAH) program. At the time of the report’s publication in 2004, DAH operated seven residences that specifically targeted high users of public services.
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