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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: 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.
The Stable Communities Initiative hosted a free afternoon workshop titled "Exploring Lease Purchase" at the NeighborWorks Training Institute in Washington, DC. Roy Nash of NeighborWorks Waco in Waco, Texas & Bill Brett of Homeport Ohio in Columbus, Ohio shared strategies for their ...
SOURCE: National League of Cities
The foreclosure crisis is an opportunity to reorient housing strategies to focus on creating and supporting neigh
SOURCE: Center for Housing Policy
This brief by Keith Wardrip summarizes research exploring the ways in which public transit has been shown to influence housing costs for owners and renters in the United States.
SOURCE: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
This empirical analysis estimates the impact of vacancy and neglect associated with material property-tax delinquency and foreclosures on the value of neighboring homes using parcel-level observations. The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland believes that this is only the second ...
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