CBPP: Gap between rents and renter incomes grew in 2015
CBPP: Major study shows vouchers are most effective tool for helping homeless families
CBPP: Renters' tax credit would reduce housing cost burdens
Next City: Crunching the numbers on a $76B tax credit for renters
Next City: How Baltimore's promising vacant properties program is working
Rooflines: Housing doesn't filter, neighborhoods do
Topics: Program News and Notices, reclaiming vacant properties
Bloomberg: The difficulty of building new housing is getting to be a national crisis
FiveThirtyEight: Why so many poor Americans don't get help paying for housing
How Housing Matters: Momentum grows for housing as health care
The HUDdle: Putting a human face to homeless data
Los Angeles Review of Books: An opportunity to rethink housing policy
NLIHC: DOJ says landlords can't use overly broad generalizations when screening
Propublica: Is Facebook violating the federal Fair Housing Act?
Rooflines: Optimism and space: The Reclaiming Vacant Properties conference
Rooflines: Renters declare a national state of emergency
Urban Wire: Moving to Work expansion provides an opportunity to test new models
Urban Wire: Using cash transfers to expand housing choice
Washington Post: Challenging the cultural consensus on public housing
Topics: criminal records, fair housing, MTW, Program News and Notices, reclaiming vacant properties
Center for Community Progress: Vacant Home Tour changes the conversation around vacancy
CityLab: Rental housing assistance for poor families with children is evaporating
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies: Affordability pressures for renter households continue to build
Los Angeles Times: Subsidized rent, but nowhere to go: Vouchers go unused
Next City: Ohio cities bring high-tech tools to the fight against blight
Planetizen: Housing crisis leads to renewed support for rent control
Rooflines: There's still an affordable housing crisis, and it only seems to be getting worse
Topics: Program News and Notices, reclaiming vacant properties
This week HUD announced that it will establish a federal advisory committee for the Moving to Work (MTW) program. The committee will advise HUD on specific policy proposals and methods of research and evaluation for expansion of the MTW demonstration. HUD published a request for policy proposals and evaluation methods for the expansion on April 4.
Establishment of the advisory committee is required under the 2016 appropriations bill, which authorizes HUD to expand the MTW demonstration by an additional 100 public housing authorities over seven years. According to today’s notice, the committee will have up to 14 members appointed by the HUD Secretary.
Comments on the notice are due by May 26, 2016. In other news:
Brookings: Examining multidimensional poverty
NLIHC: People with criminal records should get a fair chance at housing
Urban Institute: Lessons from Memphis's collaborative campaign against blight
Topics: appropriations, criminal records, MTW, Program News and Notices, reclaiming vacant properties
CBPP: HOTMA would build on effectiveness of rental assistance
Center for Community Progress: In a nationwide Valentine’s Day “Public Display of Affection,” people shared their love for revitalized vacant places
CityLab: High-speed internet launches in Kansas City public housing
NeighborWorks: 6 tips for improving community safety
New York Times (via CSSP): The longevity gap between high-income and low-income Americans has widened sharply
Next City: Planning for a public housing teardown in Louisville
NHC: Increase in working renter households impacts rental markets, pushing rents ever higher
NLIHC: Diane Yentel to be new president of National Low-Income Housing Coalition
Trulia (via Planetizen): How many homeowners became renters during the Great Recession?
Urban Wire: Evaluating Hillary Clinton's plan to connect housing to opportunity
Topics: HOTMA, Program News and Notices, reclaiming vacant properties
The American Prospect (via CSSP): Housing voucher recipients can move to better neighborhoods only if states and localities break down suburban barriers
CityLab: Texas refuses to follow fair housing rules
NCSHA: Administration releases FY 2017 budget
Next City: Atlanta's blighted properties are costing city millions
Next City: Lawyer takes big-picture approach to fighting blight in Memphis
NLIHC: FY17 request goes bold to end family homelessness
Rooflines: Socially blind urban planning in San Diego
Washington Post: The poor are better off when we build more housing for the rich
Topics: appropriations, Choice Neighborhoods, fair housing, Program News and Notices, reclaiming vacant properties
Center for Community Progress: Public displays of affection for revitalization projects
CityLab: The housing crisis for Americans with disabilities
CityLab: How permanent supportive housing really works
CityLab: Racially concentrated disadvantage remains a much bigger urban problem than gentrification
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies: Surge in new rental construction fails to met need for low-cost housing
NLIHC: New infographics illustrate federal budget
Next City: Which 2016 presidential candidate has an affordable housing solution?
Topics: Program News and Notices, reclaiming vacant properties
Al Jazeera America (via CSSP): New ruling could be the first to interpret a recent Supreme Court case on fair housing
Baltimore Sun (via CSSP): Housing incentive program has no takers in Baltimore region
CityLab: The pervasive fear of affordable housing in New Jersey
CityLab: How Baltimore's housing choice voucher program gets it right
City Observatory (via Planetizen): Make housing vouchers an entitlement—we can afford it
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies: Housing cost burdens weigh heavily on low- and moderate-income renters across the country
MarketWatch: Rent is still twice wage growth
NBC News (via Planetizen): Rising rents leaving the middle class behind
Next City: Baltimore gets $700 million blight-fighting plan
The Oregonian (via Planetizen): Portland's housing authority receives unprecedented number of rent increases
Topics: fair housing, Program News and Notices, reclaiming vacant properties
CBPP: Number of people in homeless shelters rises
Center for Community Progress: Comprehensive and creative resources for lot reuse implementation
Next City: HUD announces new Choice Neighborhoods "action grants"
Topics: Choice Neighborhoods, Program News and Notices, reclaiming vacant properties
Building Design & Construction (via CSSP): New York showcases an urban farm for public housing
CBPP: How housing vouchers can help address California's rental crisis
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies: Single-family rentals have risen to nearly a third of rental housing
Next City: New Detroit field guide released to help residents with vacant lots
NLIHC: Government shutdown averted, budget talks to begin "soon"
Urban Institute: How public servants have helped expand housing mobility
Topics: appropriations, government shutdown, Program News and Notices, reclaiming vacant properties
