Microblog #79: What’s a suburb, anyway?
Defining the suburbs: More complicated than you might think. If you ask most people what makes a neighborhood…
Read MoreMicroblog #74: Home buying during the shutdown
Don’t Call the Movers Quite Yet if You’re Closing on a Home with a Government-Backed Mortgage. As the…
Read MoreMicroblog #73: Looking ahead in the new year
A Big Year for Housing? Here’s What We’re Watching in 2019. After the ball drops, getting back to…
Read MoreMicroblog #72: Explaining the hardest to the youngest
Homelessness Happens Everywhere. Even on Sesame Street. As the holiday season draws to an end, many of us…
Read MoreMicroblog #68: Votes for homes
Voters Took to the Polls in Record Numbers on Tuesday. How Did They Feel About Housing? The 2018…
Read MoreMicroblog #67: Intergenerational wealth-building
Is Homeownership Passed from Parent to Child? We’ve learned a lot recently about how the neighborhood where a…
Read MoreConfronting 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreEquitable 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.
Read MoreBuilding 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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