Advanced Age Can Increase Risk of Housing Insecurity and Homelessness Monday, May 6, 2024 With a growing number of older adults experiencing homelessness across the US, we interviewed housing, aging, and homelessness service providers in Boston to examine factors unique to older adults. In... By SAMARA SCHECKLER
Affordability How Do Funding and Review Processes Shape the Design of Affordable Housing? Thursday, March 22, 2018 How do the notoriously complicated funding and approval processes for affordable housing shape the... By DAVID LUBEROFF
Demographics & Projections On the Road Again? After Long-Term Decline, Interstate Migration May be Recovering Monday, March 19, 2018 For the first time in decades, the number and share of Americans moving to another state may be... By RIORDAN FROST
Housing Markets & Conditions Local Responses to Global Climate Change Wednesday, March 14, 2018 From September’s destructive hurricanes to the devastating fires in California, recent natural... By JILL SCHMIDT
Neighborhood Change Furthering Fair Housing: It’s Not Too Late to Follow New Orleans’ Lead Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Although the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced that state and... By CASHAUNA HILL
Neighborhood Change Collaborations by Design: CDFIs, Capital Absorption, and the Creation of Community Investment Systems Monday, March 5, 2018 Rebuilding disinvested communities takes more than money. Rather, as research done by the Initiative... By ERIN SHACKELFORD
Neighborhood Change Assessing Fair Housing: HUD’s Delay and the Dilemma this Poses for Jurisdictions Friday, March 2, 2018 How should the numerous jurisdictions poised to start their Assessments of Fair Housing (or those... By KATHERINE O'REGAN
Neighborhood Change What Would it Take for HUD to Meaningfully Increase Inclusion? Wednesday, February 28, 2018 What would it take to meet the 1968 federal Fair Housing Act’s requirement that federal entities use... By KATIE GOURLEY
Rental Housing The Number of High-Income Renters Surged, Especially in the Nation’s Highest-Cost Markets Monday, February 26, 2018 High-income renters are a growing share of all rental households, particularly in the nation’s most... By ALEXANDER HERMANN
Homeownership Do State Income Taxes Affect Home Values? Thursday, February 22, 2018 State and local governments account for about 40 percent of all tax collections in the United States... By DAVID LUBEROFF