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Homelessness spiked 12 percent (71,000 people) in 2023, with more than 650,000 people unhoused, the highest number recorded since data collection began in 2007. The US…

Property improvement assistance programs often benefit renters last and least. Low-income renters, especially those living in small multifamily properties (those with 2-4…

The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is the largest single investment in the United States' public works in decades. Over the next five years, it will fund…

W13-1: With house prices falling nationally by more than 30 percent from 2006 to 2011 and foreclosures soaring, many have started to write the obituary on homeownership…

W12-8: In 2004, Fundacion CIDOC commissioned the Joint Center for Housing Studies to prepare a report assessing The State of Mexico’s Housing, which was a follow up…

W12-7: The field of community development is at an inflection point, poised to achieve scale, impact, and integration of the many lessons learned over the past…

W12-2: This paper focuses on four critical policy challenges in the area of housing finance that were developed with input from the What Works Collaborative during the…

W10-9: Given the prolonged period of high unemployment and the possibility that it will influence headship rates and household growth, this working paper explores a…

MF10-10: The boom and bust in nonprime and nontraditional mortgage lending in the UnitedStates is without precedent. The factors that fueled the boom and the way it…

Homeowners have long sought debt relief in the federal bankruptcy courts, but they take different paths to reach that point. For some, home mortgage problems are a…