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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
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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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The New Now: Working Together for Social Change
AUTHOR: Building Movement Project
YEAR: 2015
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Report highlights case studies of how LGBT movements have become intersectional and expanded to advocate for other issues like immigration, police
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Tipping the Scale: How Assets Shape Economic Opportunity for Women and Families
AUTHOR: Brandeis Institute on Assets and Social Policy:…
YEAR: 2015
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Report uses longitudinal data to examine how access to assets at the personal, institutional and neighborhood level affects economic outcomes for w
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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
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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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Demographics of Wealth: How Age, Education and Race Separate Thrivers from Strugglers in Today’s Economy
AUTHOR: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
YEAR: 2015
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Drawing from the Federal Reserve’s triennial Survey of Consumer Finances, which includes data from over 40,000 families (spanning 1989 to 2013), th
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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
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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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Weathering the Great Recession: A CDFI Case Study in Patient Capital
AUTHOR: Kimberly Latimer-Nelligan, Low Income Investment Fund…
YEAR: 2015
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Learn about how CDFIs have fared The Great Recession successfully, with a focus on the low income investment fund, a CDFI that practices a proactiv
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Architecture of Segregration: Civil Unrest, The Concentration of Poverty and Public Policy
AUTHOR: Paul A. Jargowsky
YEAR: 2015
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Report shows how concentration of poverty has doubled since 2000, especially among black communities, in small and medium sized metros across the c
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Making Inclusionary Housing More Flexible: Ideas for Urban Settings
AUTHOR: Robert Hickey, National Housing Conference’s Center…
YEAR: 2015
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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
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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
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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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Compounding Stress: The Timing and Duration Effects of Homelessness on Children's Health
AUTHOR: Center for Housing Policy and Children's Health…
YEAR: 2015
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Report summarizes research showing how the stress of homelessness during both pregnancy and early childhood can lead to stress related chronic dise
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Affordable Housing's Place in Healthcare
AUTHOR: Center for Housing Policy
YEAR: 2015
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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
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Report looks at how states' Qualified Allocation Plans affect the distribution of Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) developments
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Embracing Equity in Community Health Improvement
AUTHOR: Health Resources in Action, Laurie Stillman, MM, and…
YEAR: 2015
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Report provides an equity framework for community organizations and health organizations working on community health improvement.
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The High Public Cost of Low Wages
AUTHOR: UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education…
YEAR: 2015
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Report examines the link between low wages, reduced employer provision of health insurance and the use of public benefit programs.
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Out of Reach 2015: Low Wages and High Rents Lock Renters Out
AUTHOR: National Low Income Housing Coalition
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report compares rental housing prices with low-income wages across the United States.
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Consumers and Mobile Financial Services 2015
AUTHOR: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System…
YEAR: 2015
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Report covers consumer behavior of using mobile banking across the United States
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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
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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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Increasing Local Food Procurement by Massachusetts State Agencies
AUTHOR: Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic
YEAR: 2015
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Report contains policy recommendations to make it easier for state agencies to source food from local producers
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Scrimping + Saving: A report on ﬁnancial access, attitudes and behaviors of low- and moderate-income Asian Americans and Paciﬁc Islanders
AUTHOR: National CAPACD
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report looks at financial capability and access of low-income Asian American communities in the United States
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#BlackWorkersMatter
AUTHOR: Discount Foundation and Neighborhood Funders Group…
YEAR: 2015
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This six section report covers the history of black worker organizing, the black jobs crisis and recommendations to improve the economic prosperity
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