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A Systematic Review of Health Impact Assessments on Housing Decisions and Guidance for Future Practice
AUTHOR: National Center for Healthy Housing and National…
YEAR: 2016
DESCRIPTION:
Report reviews forty housing health impact assessments in the United States, providing guidance for future health impact assessments of housing pro
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Gentrification and Displacement: An Agenda for Addressing Gentrification and Addressing Displacement
AUTHOR: Gentrification Learning Community
YEAR: 2016
DESCRIPTION:
This report outlines the strategies and solutions to the problems created by gentrification in the Greater Boston area as determined by The Gentrif
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How Investing in Housing Can Save on Healthcare
AUTHOR: Lisa Sturtevant and Janet Viveiros, National Housing…
YEAR: 2016
DESCRIPTION:
Report makes the case for how investing in housing can reduce healthcare costs, given that under the Affordable Care Act, there are opportunities a
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Changing Patterns XXII: Mortgage Lending to Traditionally Underserved Borrowers & Neighborhoods in Boston, Greater Boston and Massachusetts
AUTHOR: Jim Campen, UMass Boston on behalf of the…
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report examines data on mortgage lending by various factors including borrower race and income, as well as neighborhood and lending type.
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Too Good to be True? The Opportunity and Cost of the $1 Building
AUTHOR: Technical Development Corp, Kresge Foundation Arts…
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report explores outcomes of acquiring "Dollar buildings," buildings obtained at a cost much lower than market rate for arts & culture organizat
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Promoting Opportunity through Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (eTOD): Barriers to Success and Best Practices for Implementation
AUTHOR: Enterprise: John K. Hersey, Program Officer, Transit-…
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report covers the barriers to equitable transit oriented development as well as case studies of successful collaborative efforts to achieve more eq
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Federal Housing Assistance for Low-Income Households
AUTHOR: Congressional Budget Office
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report shows how housing assistance for low-income households from the federal government has remained flat since 2003
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Projecting Trends in Severely Cost-Burdened Renters: 2015-2025
AUTHOR: Enterprise, Joint Center for Housing Studies of…
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report projects that the number of households spending at least 50% of their income on rent is expected to rise from 11.8 million to 13.1 million b
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Making Inclusionary Housing More Flexible: Ideas for Urban Settings
AUTHOR: Robert Hickey, National Housing Conference’s Center…
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report gives recommendations for policies in urban settings to maintain the right balance between addressing housing needs and keeping affordabilit
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Priced Out: Persistence of the Workforce Housing Gap in the Boston Metro Area
AUTHOR: Urban Land Institute: Terwilliger Center for Workforce…
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report explores the shortage of workforce housing in the Boston area- housing affordable to those earning 60 to 100 percent of the area median inco
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The Impacts of Affordable Housing on Health: A Research Summary
AUTHOR: Center for Housing Policy
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report summarizes research on how access to affordable housing postively impacts health through added income, a healthy environment, increased stab
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The State of the Nation's Housing 2015
AUTHOR: Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report looks at current state of housing market in the US.
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Affordable Housing's Place in Healthcare
AUTHOR: Center for Housing Policy
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report covers opportunities for affordable housing developers created by Medicaid reform
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Effect of QAP Incentives on the Location of LIHTC Properties
AUTHOR: Multidisciplinary Research Team, HUD
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report looks at how states' Qualified Allocation Plans affect the distribution of Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) developments
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The Neighborhood Stabilization Loan Fund: Meeting the Challenge of Bringing Massachusetts Back to Life
AUTHOR: Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report reviews the outcomes and lessons learned from the Neighborhood Stabilization Loan Fund (NSLF), a program designed to address the foreclosure
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The Evaluation of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program
AUTHOR: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development…
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report by HUD evaluates the outcomes of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, a program designed to address the consequences of the housing marke
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The State of Homelessness in America
AUTHOR: National Alliance to End Homelessness
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report details national and state trends in homelessness and in populations at-risk of homelessness in 2013 and 2014.
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Investing in Integration? A Fair Housing Review of the Multi-Billion Dollar Bank Settlements
AUTHOR: Poverty & Race Research Action Council
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
This policy brief examines the three recent multi-billion dollar settlements reached by the U.S. government with J.P.
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Housing Spotlight: Affordable Housing is Nowhere to be Found for Millions
AUTHOR: National Low Income Housing Coalition
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report addresses the severe lack of housing for extremely low income families across America by quantifying the gap between the supply of housing
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When Discretion Means Denial: A National Perspective on Criminal Records Barriers to Federally Subsidized Housing
AUTHOR: Marie Claire Tran-Leung, Sargent Shriver National…
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report explains HUD policies and property management practices that inhibit people with criminal records from accessing affordable housing
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On Solid Ground: Building Opportunity, Preventing Homelessness
AUTHOR: CHAPA
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
In this report, CHAPA outlines recommendations to reduce homelessness by increasing access to and availability of housing services
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Realizing the Promise: How to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing
AUTHOR: The Opportunity Agenda
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Report highlights best practices and recommendations for affirmatively furthering fair housing.
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Housing Programs Fail to Deliver on Neighborhood Programs, Reexamined
AUTHOR: Kirk McClure and Bonnie Johnson, University of Kansas…
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Paper examines whether policy programs today do a better job of improving neighborhood quality than in 1997 when study was first done.
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Unlocking the Commonwealth: New Housing and Growth Policies to Help Massachusetts Reach Its Full Potential
AUTHOR: Massachusetts Housing Partnership
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Report covers policy recommendations to reform Massachusett's housing policies in order to meet the growing need for housing in the state
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