Just announced: xChats
HousingForward Virginia is launching a new panel series under the HousingX family: xChats! After the tremendous success of…
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Microblog #84: The times are a-changin’.
Will we soon see an end to the “Hegemony of Single Family”? Yesterday, HousingForward Virginia and the Alliance…
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Microblog #80: Is housing now a mainstream issue?
Housing is more important to voters than ever. What does that mean for Virginia? In November, voters in…
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Microblog #78: Tech for housing
Fighting eviction? There’s an app for that. Eviction rates in Virginia are a big topic in the industry….
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Microblog #70: Minneapolis goes bold
Minneapolis Is Rocking the Boat with a Radical Plan to Make Housing Affordable. And It Just Might Pass….
Read MoreState, Local, and Federal Laws Barring Source-of-Income Discrimination
An inventory and review of Source of Income legislation around the United States. Source of Income legislation restricts a landlords ability to deny housing based on the source of a potential tenant's income (ie., Section 8 vouchers).
Read MoreBuilding Opportunity II: A Fair Housing Assessment of State Low Income Housing Tax Credit Plans
2015 report that evaluates and ranks State LIHTC QAPs based on their efforts to deconcentrate poverty through their award of LIHTC allocations.
Read MoreEvaluation of Housing for Health Permanent Supportive Housing Program
RAND conducted a formative evaluation to provide early feedback on program implementation and performed an outcome evaluation examining the effects of the PSH program on county service utilization and service costs.
Read MoreNew Jersey Future Assessment of the NJ LIHTC Program
To evaluate whether those changes had their intended effect, New Jersey Future compared affordable housing projects that received federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) between 2005 and 2012 with projects that received credits between 2013 and 2015, after the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (NJHMFA), which administers the tax credits, made significant changes to the criteria it uses to award them.
Read MoreBoston Residential Investigation on Green and Healthy Transitions (BRIGHT) Study
For more than 15 years, Boston Housing Authority (BHA) has executed efforts to improve residents’ health through changes in environment and behavior. One of these initiatives was the Boston Residential Investigation on Green and Healthy Transitions (BRIGHT) study, a collaborative effort with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Committee for Boston Public Housing to measure the impact of healthy housing features and practices on resident health, satisfaction, and comfort. The study compared the health of residents living in the old housing with residents’ health in new units with healthy housing features and practices. The redeveloped housing included smoke-free housing policies, improved ventilation, and tight building envelopes.
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