A Decade of Progress: Investing in Lives and Neighborhoods through the Housing Production Trust Fund (CNHED, 2014)
This report takes a look at how DC's Housing Production Trust Fund had affected the community between 2002-2012.
Read MoreA Survey of Revenue Tools to Fund Affordable Housing and Services in the Portland Metro Region (Welcome Home Coalition, 2014)
The Welcome Home Coalition compiled a report in 2014 to document potential funding streams for affordable housing measures in Portland, Oregon.
Read MoreCall the Question: Will the Greater Washington Region Collaborate and Invest to Solve Its Affordable Housing Shortage? (Housing Leaders Group of Greater Washington, 2015)
This 2015 white paper takes a look at effective housing policy solutions to solve the affordability crisis in the Greater Washington region
Read MoreAddressing Housing as a Health Care Treatment (NHC/MacArthur, 2015)
Hennepin Health, a Hennepin County, Minn. Accountable Care Organization, is a new kind of health care delivery organization focusing on integrating social services into health care. Serving non-disabled, low-income adults enrolled on Medicaid, Hennepin offers housing navigation services and case management to help members find stable and affordable housing.
Read MoreUsing Health Care Savings to Construct Supportive Housing in New York (NHC/MacArthur, 2015)
New York State is implementing a variety of Medicaid reform initiatives, including the use of state Medicaid savings to finance supportive housing development. The Creston Avenue Residence is a new mixed affordable and supportive housing development in New York City financed in part with state Medicaid savings.
Read MoreDoes School Mobility Place Elementary School Children at Risk for Lower Math Achievement? (Developmental Psychology, 2015)
This research, which involved children enrolled in the Chicago public school system, was published in the APA journal Developmental Psychology®. It shows that children who experienced fewer school transitions over a five-year period demonstrated greater cognitive skills and higher math achievement in early elementary school, relative to their counterparts who changed schools frequently.
Read MoreCollaborating with Housing Quality Stakeholders to Reduce Home Health Risks (NHC/MacArthur, 2015)
Lead poisoning, often resulting from exposure to lead paint in older homes, poses a serious health threat to children. The Georgia Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (GHHLPPP) uses Medicaid and other funding to carry out blood lead testing, home lead hazards assessments and education to prevent lead poisoning among low-income children. GHHLPPP will soon begin piloting home asthma risk assessments for children with severe asthma.
Read MoreWhy Are the Twin Cities So Segregated? (UMN Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, 2015)
Racial segregation in Minneapolis and St. Paul is largely the result of charter schools and of policies that move affordable housing out of white suburbs and into segregated urban neighborhoods and first-tier suburbs, according to the University of Minnesota's Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity.
Read MoreA Study of the Relationship Between Affordable Family Rental Housing and Home Values in the Twin Cities (Family Housing Fund, 2000)
A Study of the Relationship Between Affordable Family Rental Housing and Home Values in the Twin Cities. A 2000 white paper by the Family Housing Fund exploring the impact of tax credit family rental developments on the surrounding home values.
Read MoreOn The Ground: 40B Developments Before and After (Tufts, 2009)
A study out of Tufts University that looks at some of the most controversial 40B projects in Massachusetts that were completed before June 2006.
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