Microblog #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.
Read MoreNext Generation Community Revitalization: A Work in Progress (Bridgespan Group, 2011)
Six national models used in recent decades to comprehensively address community revitalization are evaluated in this report. These models approach poverty alleviation through a multi-pronged approach including social services, education, housing, etc.
Read MoreRental Housing Discrimination on the Basis of Mental Disabilities: Results of Pilot Testing (HUD, 2017)
Rental Housing Discrimination on the Basis of Mental Disabilities: Results of Pilot Testing finds that when compared to people without mental disabilities, those persons who are living with mental disabilities receive fewer responses to their rental inquiries, are informed of fewer available units, and are less likely to be invited to contact the housing provider. In addition, HUD’s study found that they are less likely to be invited to tour an available unit, are more likely to be steered to a different unit than the one advertised, and are treated differently depending on their type of disability.
Read MoreState Strategies to Increase Energy and Water Efficiency in LIHTC Properties (NHT/EEFA, 2017)
A report by the National Housing Trust (NHT) and Energy Efficiency For All (EEFA) identifies 10 prominent strategies in use by state Housing Finance Agencies (HFAs) to reduce operating expenses in Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (Housing Credit) properties.
Read MoreMoney Is Policy: How Federal Dollars are Spent: The Case for New Priorities (Terwilliger Foundation, 2017)
This Terwilliger Foundation report reveals the striking imbalance of current federal housing assistance, where most of the benefits accrue to higher income households. It notes that the median income of homeowner households ($68,797) is more than double the median income of renter households ($33,784), but renters receive none of benefits of mortgage-related tax expenditures and most of these expenditures go to higher income homeowners.
Read MorePreserving Affordability and Access in Livable Communities: Subsidized Housing Opportunities near Transit and the 50+ Population (AARP, 2009)
This study analyzes the location of affordable housing in 20 metropolitan areas by mapping federally subsidized rental apartments in each area and measuring the amount of affordable housing within certain distances of transit. The study uses five areas as case studies—including site visits and interviews with residents 50 and older—to provide more information on the challenges and benefits of different locations of affordable housing.
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