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SOURCE: HUDUser
PD&R’s Best Practices Series highlights sustainable housing and community development projects and innovations from across the country. The most recent report details the revitalization of Old North St Louis, Missouri, one of St. Louis’s historic ...
SOURCE: Brookings
In this report published by Brookings, an analysis of the location of Housing Choice Voucher (HCV, the program formerly known as Section 8) recipients in the 100 largest U.S metropolitan areas in 2000 and 2008 finds that:
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development
HUD has released guidance to their field offices on the NSP2 deadline procedures. NSP2 grantees with reported exenditures less than 50% of the grant allocation will be receiving letters from HUD. Drawdowns are a proxy for reported expenditures, but are not the ...
SOURCE: National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership
In order to learn more about the effects of the foreclosure crisis on children and schools, the National Neighborhood Indicator Partership gathered data from Baltimore, New York City, and Washington, D.C. Family stress, moves from home to home, and changing schools all affect children ...
SOURCE: NeigborWorks America
The community development field began with the rehabilitation of existing housing. One leading example can be seen in the story of Dorothy Richardson. In the 1960s, Richardson and a small group of her neighbors in Pittsburgh's Central North Side, banded together in a fight to save their ...
SOURCE: NeighborWorks America
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SOURCE: U.S. Government Accountability Office
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently completed a series of case studies and released a report about vacant properties. There are implications on the neighborhoods and communities where vacant and unoccupied properties are located. The properties can attract crime, ...
SOURCE: Federal Reserve
The ongoing problems in the U.S. housing market continue to impede the economic recovery. House prices have fallen an average of about 33 percent from their 2006 peak, resulting in about $7 trillion in household wealth losses and an associated ratcheting down of aggregate consumption. At the ...
SOURCE: DS News, 1/5/12
According to a white paper released by the Federal Reserve to key members of Congress, “the decline in house prices and the rise in rents suggest that it might be appropriate in some cases to redeploy foreclosed homes as rental properties.” The Fed appears to support a large-scale ...
SOURCE: Federal Reserve
This publication compiles innovative examples of communities using data to inform their knowledge base and also to target their limited resources. The examples in this publication are replicable by municipalities, nonprofits, universities, funders, and others working to stabilize neighborhoods.
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