Hate Crimes against the Homeless: America’s Growing Tide of Violence, a report released by the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH), states that at least 43 homeless individuals were killed in the past year. These violent attacks appear to have been motivated by hatred or bias specifically aimed at homeless persons, most often middle-aged men. [More ...]
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National Coalition for the Homeless Releases Report on Hate Crimes Against the Homeless
Tags: Hate Crimes, homeless, Report
Affordable Housing for Families and Neighborhoods: The Value of Low-Income Housing Tax Credits in New York City
Source: Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. and Local Initiatives Support
Corporation, Inc., 2010
From the report’s executive summary:
“Since the late 1980s, the Federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) has acted as an engine of affordable housing production, building about 2 million high-quality units that rent for amounts working families can afford to pay. Organizations working to improve conditions in low-income communities have also used the program to revitalize hundreds of once-downtrodden neighborhoods. Drawing on the program’s experience in New York City, this report joins a growing body of technical research examining the tax credit’s value to communities and low-income families nationwide.”
Tags: Affordable Housing, LIHTC
New Report: Unaffordable Housing and Local Employment Growth
Source: New England Public Policy Center
Abstract
High housing prices have caused concerns among policy makers as well as the public in many U.S. regions. There is a general belief that unaffordable housing could drive businesses away and thus impede job growth. However, there has been little empirical evidence that supports this view. In this paper, we clarify how housing affordability is linked to employment growth and why unaffordable housing could negatively affect employment growth. [More ...]
Tags: Affordable Housing, Jobn Growth, Report, Research
The 2009 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress
Source: HUD, July 2010
The total number of homeless persons in America dropped slightly between 2008 and 2009, although the number of homeless families increased — almost certainly due to the ongoing effects of the recession. HUD recently released these data as part of The 2009 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress — the fifth in a series that provides both snapshots of homeless persons on a given night in 2009 (usually at the end of January) and a year-long assessment. [More ...]
Tags: Homelessness, HUD
Strengthening At Risk and Homeless Young Mothers and Children Evaluation Report: Year 2, 2008-2009
Source: National Center on Family Homelessness, May 2010
Assesses the second-year enrollment in and impact of Hilton’s initiative to address the needs of homeless and at-risk young families, including employment, education, housing, health, and family functioning; promising practices; and lessons learned.
Tags: family homelessness, Hilton
Opinion Brief: Boomerang Homeless Families:
Source: Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness, Summer 2010
The opinion brief suggests that the aggressive rehousing policies for New York City’s homeless families during the Bloomberg Administration do not work for all homeless families and therefore have destabilized the shelter system by pushing an increasing percentage of families through a revolving door and back into shelter—at great cost to the City.
Tags: Boomerang Homeless Families, Homelessness
Report: Vermont housing some of New England’s least affordable
From VHFA Housing Matters blog, June 23, 2010
“The New England Public Policy Center published a report this month that shows Vermont’s housing is some of the least affordable of all New England states.
Specifically, “young professionals” 25- to 39-year-olds, out of school, holding bachelor degrees or higher have a harder time affording housing in Vermont than in any other New England state. [More ...]
Tags: Affordability, New England, Report, Vermont
State of the Nation’s Housing 2010 Report
“PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 14, 2010
Contact: Taylor Materio 202-662-1530 x227; taylor@nlihc.org
State of the Nation’s Housing 2010 Released, Low Income Renters Still Most in Need
New York, NY - Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies released its State of the Nation’s Housing 2010 report on June 14, finding room for optimism about the nation’s housing market while also revealing that recent progress is fragile and highly dependent on continued job growth. [More ...]
Tags: Harvard, Housing Research, Report
HUD Documents “Worst Case Needs” in 2007
Source: NLIHC Memo to Members, May 28, 2010
“HUD issued its twelfth “Worst Case Housing Needs” in the last week of May. The report states that there were 5.91 million households, comprising 12.97 million people, with worst case housing needs in 2007, based on analysis of American Housing Survey data. The definition of worst case is a very low income renter household that did not receive housing assistance, and that paid more than half of its income for housing, lived in severely inadequate housing, or both. HUD is required by statute to report to Congress on “worst case housing needs” every two years. [More ...]
Tags: HUD, Worst Case Housing Needs
Squeeze: High rents, low wages
By Lisa McCormack
Source: StoweToday, April 29, 2010
“Even in an economic downturn, when rents could normally be expected to decline, decent affordable housing has remained out of reach for many Vermonters, including low and moderate-income workers in Lamoille and Washington counties. [More ...]
Tags: Affordability, Out of Reach
