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Are Mortgage Services Following the New Rules?
AUTHOR: National Council of La Raza
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Report highlights major improvements and problems with compliance to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau mortgage servicing standards, includi
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Understanding Whom the LIHTC Program Serves
AUTHOR: U.S. Dept of Housing and Urban Development
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Report provides state-by-state economic and demographic data on residents of LIHTC units as of December 2012.
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Is the HOME Program Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing?
AUTHOR: Ebony Gayles and Silva Mathema, Poverty and Race…
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Report reviews the fair housing outcomes of the HOME program in terms of race and poverty equity, and gives recommendations for changes to the prog
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The Alignment Project: Aligning Federal Low Income Housing Programs with Housing Need
AUTHOR: National Low Income Housing Coalition
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Report examines the extent to which federal low income housing programs serve extremely low income households
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White Paper on Rural Housing Issues in Massachusetts
AUTHOR: Massachusetts Housing Partnership
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Report highlights the challenges of and recommendations for building safe, decent and affordable housing in rural Massachusetts
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Building on Success: State Action Plan for Creating 1,000 New Units for Supportive Housing in Massachusetts
AUTHOR: Massachetts Interagency Housing Steering Committee…
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Report outlines the progress the state of Massachusetts has made in building supportive housing.
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The Impacts of Affordable Housing on Education: A Research Summary
AUTHOR: Center for Housing Policy
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
This report summarizes research on how stable affordable housing improves educational outcomes of low-income communities
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Changing Patterns XXI: Mortgage Lending to Traditionally Underserved Borrowers & Neighborhoods in Boston, Greater Boston, and Massachusetts, 2013
AUTHOR: Jim Campen, UMass Boston
YEAR: 2014
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This report, prepared for the Massachusetts Community and Banking Council, shows how Black and Latino borrowers are much more likely than other rac
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Housing Finance System: A Framework for Assessing Potential Changes
AUTHOR: United States Government Accountability Office
YEAR: 2014
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Tackling the World's Affordable Housing Crisis
AUTHOR: McKinsey & Company
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Report outlines market based solutions to the affordable housing crisis in 2,400 cities around the world in order to narrow the affordable housing
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Creating Opportunity for Children: How Housing Location Can Make a Difference
AUTHOR: Barbara Sard and Douglas Rice
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Makes recommendations for federal assistance programs based on the finding that children who live in low poverty neighborhoods have better outcomes
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Housing a Changing City: Boston 2030
AUTHOR: Mayor Martin J. Walsh
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Mayor Marty Walsh releases his administration's plan to create enough housing to accommodate Boston's project population growth by 2030
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A Realistic Assessment of Housing Finance Reform
AUTHOR: Laurie S. Goodman, Urban Institute
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
This report explores current housing reform proposals, and specifically the roles government and private capital would play in the housing finance
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Housing for America's Older Adults
AUTHOR: Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
This report illustrates the need for housing among a growing older American adult population
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Spatial Analysis of Choice Neighborhoods Initiative Planning Grant Applicants and Neighborhoods
AUTHOR: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development…
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
This report examines the outcome of the Choice Neighborhoods program after three years, an initiative to revitalize high-poverty neighborhoods into
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The Affordable Housing Crisis in Massachusetts: Where do the Gubernatorial Candidates Stand?
AUTHOR: Citizens' Housing and Planning Association…
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Massachusetts faces an affordable housing crisis, and there are two major problems – inadequate supply and affordability – that restrict housing ch
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State of Our Nations Housing
AUTHOR: Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University…
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
With promising increases in home construction, sales, and prices, the housing market gained steam in early 2013. But
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Rural America's Rental Housing Crisis
AUTHOR: National Rural Housing Coalition
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
The purpose of this report is to analyze federal strategies to preserve affordable, rural rentalhousing.
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Inclusionary Upzoning: Tying Growth to Affordability
AUTHOR: Center for Housing Policy
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
This paper profiles six localities that have adopted inclusionary housing policies tied to upzoning, referred to here as “inclusionary upzoning.”
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Orange Line Opportunity Corridor Report
AUTHOR: Metropolitan Area Planning Council
YEAR: 2013
DESCRIPTION:
This report provides a baseline understanding of the demographic, economic, transportation, and land use characteristics of the corridor; a schedul
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The State of Housing in Black America
AUTHOR: The National Association of Real Estate Brokers…
YEAR: 2013
DESCRIPTION:
As this report demonstrates, the collapse of the housing market and subsequent recession has been particularly devastating to the Black community.
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After the Downturn: New Challenges and Opportunities for Inclusionary Housing
AUTHOR: Center for Housing Policy
YEAR: 2013
DESCRIPTION:
This paper examines how inclusionary housing policies fared during the nation’s historic housing downturn, as well as the major issues and opportun
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The US Housing Shortage
AUTHOR: The Atlantic Magazine
YEAR: 2013
DESCRIPTION:
The U.S. Simply Doesn't Have Enough Available Rental Housing, Whether You're Rich or Poor
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Out of Reach Analysis
AUTHOR: Poverty and Race Research Action Council
YEAR: 2013
DESCRIPTION:
Every year, the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) releases the Out of Reach report, which provides an important measure of how far the
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