Residential segregation by income has increased during the past three decades across the United States and in 27 of the nation’s 30 largest major metropolitan areas, according to a new analysis of census tract and household income data by the Pew Research Center.
Read MoreThe Harvard JCHS developed three surveys of homeowners, renters, and contractors with the goal of comparing their perceptions and priorities to the current well-established principles of indoor air and environmental quality in order to begin assessing Americans' healthy housing concerns and awareness.
Read MoreA report by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy shows that low income households, renters, and African American households face greater energy cost burdens than higher income households, homeowners, and white households.
Read MoreThe County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program, a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, highlights the many social and economic factors which influence health, and provides resources to help communities take action.
Read MoreThe purpose of this report is to provide information on Community Land Trusts in the United States based upon a comprehensive survey of 96 CLTs conducted at the start of 2011.
Read MoreThe study examined mortgage delinquency and foreclosure rates among the owner-occupants of resale-restricted houses and condominiums in community land trusts (CLTs) across the United States and compared CLT results to rates of delinquency and foreclosure among the owner-occupants of conventional market-rate housing reported by the Mortgage Bankers Association’s National Delinquency Survey (MBA).
Read MoreThis paper by the National Housing Institute (publishers of Shelterforce) for Cornerstone Partnership (now part of Grounded Solutions Network) looks at innovative local affordable homeownership programs around the country that have found ways to make ownership accessible and also much safer and more sustainable, while concurrently achieving long-term affordability.
Read MoreThis study examines the rates of delinquencies and foreclosure filings in mortgages that were held by households who owned homes in Community Land Trusts (CLTs) during 2009.
Read MoreThis Lincoln Institute report presents the results of a survey carried out in 2006 of the 186 Community Land Trusts (CLTs) known to exist at this time.
Read MoreThis 2007 white paper from the Center for Housing Policy (now a part of the National Housing Coalition) provides an analysis of several alternative strategies for sharing the equity growth that accompanies home price appreciation to balance the dual goals of individual asset accumulation and ongoing affordability to future home purchasers.
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