Which families gain access to neighborhood and school contexts most conducive to their children’s development? Race and class continue to play central roles given the…
The draw of white and well-resourced suburban public schools has long fueled segregation in America’s metropolitan areas, but what happens when these schools become more…
As our recently released 2016 State of the Nation’s Housing report highlights, rental housing affordability remains a pervasive—and growing—problem for millions of renter…
In the early 1970s, in response to growing concerns about the housing conditions of poor families, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) developed a…
Several weeks ago, President Obama released his final budget proposal to Congress. In it, the President requests $48.9 billion in gross discretionary funding for HUD—a $1.6…
Note: Data includes vacant for-rent units and those that are rented but not yet occupied. Excludes no-cash rentals and other rentals where rent is not paid monthly. Source…
In the last several presidential debates, both Democratic and Republican candidates have referenced the mounting costs associated with a college education, which have…
In the last several presidential debates, both Democratic and Republican candidates have referenced the mounting costs associated with a college education, which have…
Since the 2010 release of Opening Doors, the first federal strategic plan to end and prevent homelessness, total homelessness in the US is now down 10 percent, from about 640…
The FY 2016 appropriations bill covering spending for Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) is headed to the full House for debate this…