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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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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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Small Business Lending in Massachusetts 2007-2013
AUTHOR: Stuart Ryan, Massachusetts Community and Banking…
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
In its sixteenth annual report, MCBC provides information on small business lending in Massachusetts with an emphasis on low-income and traditional
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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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Building Sustainable Communities: Initial Research Results
AUTHOR: Christopher Walker, LISC
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Report from LISC shows that places where LISC invests, areas of comprehensive community development, are better places to live than similar communi
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Advancing Human Rights: A Status Report on Human Rights in the United States
AUTHOR: U.S. Human Rights Network
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
This report provides an update on the status of human rights in the United States, from both policy and organizing standpoints
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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
DESCRIPTION:
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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Lost in Place: Why the persistence and spread of concentrated poverty-not gentrification-is our biggest urban challenge
AUTHOR: Joe Cortright and Dillon Mahmoudi, City Observatory…
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
This paper examines population change in America's poorest neighborhoods over the past four decades.
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From Poverty to Opportunity: The Challenge of Building a Great Society
AUTHOR: Mass Budget and Policy Center
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Report traces how the economic and policy changes since the la
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The Divided City and the Shape of the Metropolis
AUTHOR: Martin Prosperity Institute
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Analysis by urban theorist Richard Florida finds that residents in cities across t
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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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Massachusetts Transportation by the Numbers: Meeting the State's Need for Safe and Efficient Mobility
AUTHOR: TRIP
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Report highlights how inadequate transportation system in Massachusetts results in billions of dollars of costs to vehicles and in increased traffi
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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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The Equity Solution: Racial Inclusion is Key to Growing a Strong Economy
AUTHOR: Sarah Treuhaft, Justin Scoggins and Jennifer Tran,…
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
This research report demonstrates how racial equity is not only a moral imperative, but an economic one, showing the economic losses that America h
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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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The State of Network Evaluation
AUTHOR: Network Impact and Center for Evaluation Innovation…
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
This paper discusses why network evaluation is of increasing interest to funders and to practitioners, and offers the field’s current thinking on n
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