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The Center for Housing Policy’s publications cover a range of topics, programs and policies related to the broad goal of identifying and meeting the nation’s housing challenges.
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Jan 1, 2010
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Shared Equity Homeownership State Policy Review
Ryan Sherriff
This report presents a review of programs and policies across 22 states that either support or hinder the development of shared equity homeownership units by state and local governments or nonprofit organizations. In some cases, state programs or policies stand in the way of local programs, making it difficult to effectively preserve affordable homeownership. In other cases, state governments have adopted policies intended to encourage and support local shared equity homeownership programs.
Dec 1, 2009
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Housing Affordability Trends for Working Households
Center For Housing Policy
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.
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Nov 1, 2009
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Bay Area Burden: Examining the Hidden Costs of Housing and Transportaion on Bay Area Residents, their Neighborhoods, and the Environment
Center for Housing Policy, Center for Neighborhood Technology, Urban Land Institute Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing
This report finds that the average working household in the Bay Area spends almost $45,000 a year -- or 59 percent of their income -- on the combined costs of housing and transportation.
As a complement to the report, the Terwilliger Center also released the Terwilliger Cost Calculator, which provides consumers with up-to-date Bay Area metro area housing and transportation cost data that they can use to make informed decisions on where to live and work.
Sep 1, 2009
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Financing Residential Energy-Efficiency: Assessing Opportunities and Coverage Gaps in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Rebecca Cohen, Jeffrey Lubell, Megan Richardson
This report describes key provisions in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that improve the energy-efficiency of subsidized and unsubsidized homes and makes recommendations for additional policy measures to address the energy-efficiency needs of households that may not be adequately covered by the legislation.
Sep 1, 2009
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Affordable, Compact and Well-Located Housing is Critical to Achieving the Nation’s Transportation Policy Objectives
Center for Housing Policy, National Housing Conference, Reconnecting America
This policy brief explains the importance of focusing on how and where housing is built as part of the larger effort to reform federal transportation policy.