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For information about Center for Housing Policy publications, please contact the Center’s Director of Communications Michele Anapol at (202) 466-2121 x226 or manapol@nhc.org.

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**Please note that the study Paycheck to Paycheck: Wages and the Cost of Housing in America is provided in online, interactive database format. Click Here for the related Paycheck to Paycheck Web Page.

Also, please visit www.HousingPolicy.org for the latest information on high-impact state and local policies that can be used to increase the availability of homes for working families.


Publications

  

Stretched Thin: The Rising Impact of Housing Expenses on America's Owners and Renters
Release Date: October 2008
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Key Findings

     

Quantifying the Value Proposition of Employer-Assisted Housing: A Case Study of Aurora Health Care
Release Date: May 2008
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The Effects of Inclusionary Zoning on Local Housing Markets: Lessons from the San Francisco, Washington DC and Suburban Boston Areas
Release Date: March 2008
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Impacts of Homeownership Education and Counseling on Homebuyer Purchasing Power: Summary of Findings
Release Date: November 2007
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The Housing Landscape for America's Working Families, 2007
Release Date: August 2007
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Metro Area Profiles and Media Release
Key Findings and Data Tables

     

Vital Links: Housing’s Contributions to the Nation’s Health and Education Objectives
Reviews of research on the ways in which stable, quality, and affordable homes – both rental and homeownership – contribute to the achievement of key health and education outcomes.

Release Date: July 2007
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Shared Equity, Powerful Results: Helping One Generation of Homeowners After Another
Release Date: April 2007
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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 Baron
Release Date: March 2007
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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
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).
     

A Heavy Load: The Combined Housing and Transportation Burdens of Working Families
Release Date: October 2006
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View basis reports:
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Institute for Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley

     

Private Sector Solutions for Workforce Housing: What Realtors and Their Partners Can Do
A background paper commissioned by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) for NAR's April 2006 workforce housing summit

Release Date: April 2006

View the report on NAR's Web site (PDF)

     

Locked Out:
Keys to Homeownership Elude Many Working Families with Children
Release Date: March 2006
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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.
     

Something's Gotta Give
Working Families and the Cost of Housing
Release Date: April 2005
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The Housing Landscape for America's Working Families 2005
Release Date: April 2005
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Paycheck to Paycheck:
Wages and the Cost of Housing in the Counties
Release Date: July 2004
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Joint report with the National Association of Counties (NACo).

For metropolitan area data, please also go to the Paycheck to Paycheck online, interactive database: Paycheck to Paycheck

     
 

Center Pieces
Working Families With Children:
A Closer Look at Homeownership Trends
Release Date: May 2004
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Housing Problems of the Working Poor
New Century Housing
Release Date: April 2004
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Highlights the need for affordable rental housing as nearly 6 out of 10 working poor families lack decent, affordable rental housing

     
 

America's Newest Working Families:
Cost, Crowding and Conditions for Immigrants
New Century Housing
Release Date: July 2003
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A first-ever, national look at immigrant working families, comparing their housing situation to those of native-born Americans. Higher rates of critical needs and crowding are the story, told in a clear, bold graphical style.

     
 

Paycheck to Paycheck:
Wages and the Cost of Housing in America
Release Date: May 2003
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Updates the previous Paycheck report with 2001 data, ranks 60 metropolitan areas according to affordability in both the homeownership and rental housing markets, and lays out the data in easy-to-read charts.

     

America's Working Families and the Housing Landscape

Release Date: November 2002
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Tracks the incidence of housing needs over the period 1997 - 2001 and documents alarming growth in the number of working families paying at least half of income for housing. Presented in a unique, graphical format.

     
 

Housing America's Working Families: A Further Exploration
New Century Housing
Release Date: March 2002
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Further updates national critical needs figures and explores several aspects, including which metro areas are critical needs "hotspots," which families are most likely to face chronic needs and the extent to which families cope by living in inadequate conditions or crowded housing.

     
 

Paycheck to Paycheck:
Wages and the Cost of Housing in America
New Century Housing
Release Date: June 2001
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Updates national figures on critical housing needs and examines five vital occupations (police officers, elementary school teachers, licensed practical nurses, janitors and retail sales workers) and whether these workers can afford housing in 60 of the nation's largest real estate markets.

     
 


Inclusionary Zoning: A Viable Solution to the Affordable Housing Crisis?

New Century Housing
Release Date: October 2000
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