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Foreclosure-Response.org
This online guide to foreclosure prevention and neighborhood stabilization is developed and maintained by the Center for Housing Policy, KnowledgePlex, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, and the Urban Institute. The Web site includes a comprehensive policy guide on strategies for preventing and responding to foreclosures, as well as access to interactive online discussions and tools that allow users to create customized data reports and maps to identify areas in which to target resources and efforts. Visit Foreclosure-Response.org |
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HousingPolicy.org – Your Online Guide to State and Local Housing Policy
This online guide provides the latest information on high-impact state
and local policies that help to increase the supply of affordable homes
for working families. HousingPolicy.org includes a broad range of state
and local housing policy tools, as well as guidance on how to put these
tools together to create a comprehensive housing strategy. Visit HousingPolicy.org |
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Paycheck to Paycheck Database
This online,
interactive database is regularly updated and presents wage information for more than 60
occupations, as well as home prices and rents for nearly 200 metropolitan
areas, allowing workers to see how their wages stack up against housing
costs in their area.Visit the Paycheck to Paycheck Database |
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Housing Affordability Trends for Working Households
This report examines severe housing cost burden trends from 2005-2008 and shows that despite a decline in home prices, housing affordability actually worsened for many of America's working families during this time period.Release Date: December 2009 Download PDF View supplementary material: Media Release |
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Insights from Housing Policy Research: Don't Put It Here! Does Affordable Housing Cause Nearby Property Values to Decline?
Part of a series of research briefs highlighting the findings and policy implications of housing policy research supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, this brief synthesizes the findings of several reviews of research examining whether affordable housing causes a decline in nearby property values.Release Date: February 2009 Download PDF View supplementary material: Related Research Abstracts All Research Briefs in this Series |
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Insights from Housing Policy Research: Taking Stock - the Role of "Preservation Inventories" in Preserving Affordable Rental Housing
Part of a series of research briefs highlighting the findings and policy implications of housing policy research supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, this brief examines how data analysis is helping states and localities to preserve the stock of affordable rental housing. Release Date: February 2009 Download PDF View supplementary material: All Research Briefs in this Series |
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Insights from Housing Policy Research: The Well-Being of Low-Income Children - Does Affordable Housing Matter?
Part of a series of research briefs highlighting the findings and policy implications of housing policy research supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, this brief profiles the research of Sandra J. Newman, director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies, to understand how affordable housing affects the lives of its occupants.Release Date: February 2009 Download PDF View supplementary material: Related Research Abstracts All Research Briefs in this Series |
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Beltway Burden: The Combined Cost of Housing and Transportation in the Greater Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area
The product of a partnership between the Center for Housing Policy, the Center for Neighborhood Technology and the Urban Land Institute Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing, this report documents the challenges faced by working families in the Washington, DC metropolitan area who are forced to "drive ‘till they qualify" for housing, incurring higher transportation costs that eventually erode their housing cost savings. Release Date: February 2009 Download PDF As a complement to the report, the Terwilliger Center also released the Terwilliger Cost Calculator, which provides consumers with up-to-date Washington, D.C. metro area housing and transportation cost data that they can use to make informed decisions on where to live and work. Visit the Cost Calculator |
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Stretched Thin: The Impact of Rising Housing Expenses on America's Owners and Renters
Did you know that many housing expenses are actually increasing faster
than incomes? This study examines change in a wide variety of housing
expenses from 1996 to 2006, revealing that increases in mortgages and
rents aren't the only reason why Americans may be feeling "Stretched
Thin." Release Date: October 2008 Download PDF View supplementary material: Key Findings |
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Quantifying the Value Proposition of Employer-Assisted
Housing: A Case Study of Aurora Health Care
Release Date: May 2008 Download PDF |
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The Effects of Inclusionary Zoning on Local
Housing Markets: Lessons from the San Francisco, Washington DC and
Suburban Boston Areas
Released in partnership with NYU's Furman Center for Real Estate &
Urban Policy, this report helps to advance the current understanding of
inclusionary zoning by taking a closer look at the impacts of programs
in three metropolitan areas. The authors describe the types of
communities that have adopted inclusionary zoning programs and assess
the effects of these programs on affordable housing production and the
price and production of market-rate housing.Release Date: March 2008 View Reports |
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Impacts of Homeownership Education and Counseling on Homebuyer Purchasing Power: Summary of Findings
This report (with accompanying case studies) presents preliminary
evidence suggesting that high-performing homeownership education and
counseling agencies may result in quantifiable benefits in the form of
increased purchasing power for counseled borrowers that may
substantially exceed the costs of providing the counseling.Release Date: November 2007 View Reports |
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The Housing Landscape for America's Working Families 2007
How many low- to moderate-income working families pay more than half
their income for housing or live in severely substandard housing? Has
this situation gotten better or worse over the past few years? What
are housing conditions like in major metropolitan areas across the
country? This report examines these questions and more, documenting a
73 percent increase in the number of working families with critical
housing needs between 1997 and 2005.Release Date: August 2007 Download PDF View supplementary material: Metro Area Profiles and Media Release Key Findings and Data Tables |
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Vital Links: Housing’s Contributions to the Nation’s Health and Education Objectives
Released in partnership with Enterprise Community Partners, this set of
resources frames the many ways in which our homes and neighborhoods may
affect health outcomes and educational achievement, and includes a
research summary, literature review, annotated bibliography and fact
sheet for each topic.Release Date: July 2007 View suite of materials |
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Shared Equity, Powerful Results: Helping One
Generation of Homeowners After Another
This suite of educational materials reviews the benefits of “shared
equity” – a unique approach to affordable homeownership. Under this
approach, a state or local government provides funding to help a family
purchase a home. In return for this investment, the government entity
shares in the benefits of any home price appreciation that may occur.
Homebuyers benefit from a substantially lower home price and the
opportunity for significant home equity gains. Local communities
benefit by retaining vital workers who otherwise couldn’t afford to
live in the communities they serve. And, by ensuring that the public’s
investment keeps pace with the housing market, shared equity strategies
allow governments to help generations of families achieve homeownership
with a single initial investment.Release Date: April 2007 View suite of materials |
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The Importance of Integrating Rigorous Research Objectives Into Any Reauthorization of the “Moving to Work” Demonstration
Policy paper authored by Jeffrey Lubell and Jon BaronRelease Date: March 2007 Download PDF |
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Increasing the Availability of Affordable Homes: A Handbook of High-Impact State and Local Solutions
Prepared by the Center for Housing Policy for Homes for Working Families,
this handbook identifies six broad strategies that state and local
governments can adopt to preserve and increase the supply of homes
affordable to working families, along with 22 specific policies to help
implement these strategies. Brief case studies show how these solutions
have worked in communities around the country.Release Date: January 2007 View the full-color Handbook (30 pages, PDF) that illustrates the 22 high-impact state and local policies. View the detailed Analysis (115 pages, PDF) that provides an in-depth discussion of the 22 policies and why they were selected. View the one-page Fact Sheet (PDF). |
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A Heavy Load: The Combined Housing and Transportation Burdens of Working Families
How do low- to moderate-income working families balance their housing
costs with commuting and other transportation costs that are part of
their daily routines? Our analysis of 28 major metropolitan areas shows
that, as working families move further from work to find housing they
can afford, they end up spending as much, or more, on increased
transportation costs as they save on housing. Individual profiles for
the 28 metropolitan areas included in the report are also available.Release Date: October 2006 Download PDF View basis reports: Center for Neighborhood Technology Institute for Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley |
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Private Sector Solutions for Workforce Housing: What Realtors and Their Partners Can Do
Prepared for the National Association of Realtors (NAR) for NAR's April
2006 work force housing summit, this report also will be useful to
local Chambers of Commerce or other business groups that are working to
raise awareness of and advocate for workforce housing in their
communities.Release Date: April 2006 Download PDF on NAR's Web site |
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Locked Out:
Did you know that despite national homeownership
rates that are at or near all-time highs in recent years, the rate for
working families with children was higher back in 1978 than in 2003?
This report details this disturbing trend and also tracks how the
homeownership gap between white and minority working families with
children has widened over the past 25 years.Keys to Homeownership Elude Many Working Families with Children Release Date: March 2006 Download PDF View basis report: Homeownership and Critical Housing Needs Among Working Families with Children: 1978-2003 Trends and Their Policy Implications, by Dr. Kathryn P. Nelson, Ph.D. |
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Something's Gotta Give
What happens when low- to moderate-income working families have to pay
an excessive amount of their income for housing? Clearly, Something’s
Gotta Give. This in-depth report examines how unaffordable housing
affects other aspects of our quality of life, finding that families who
pay more than half of their household budget for housing often reduce
expenditures for other essentials such as food, clothing,
transportation and healthcare. Working Families and the Cost of Housing Release Date: April 2005 Download PDF |
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Strengthening the Ladder for Sustainable Homeownership
A report by NHC for The Annie E. Casey FoundationRelease Date: February 2005 Download PDF |
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