Just announced: xChats
HousingForward Virginia is launching a new panel series under the HousingX family: xChats! After the tremendous success of…
Read MoreMicroblog #84: The times are a-changin’.
Will we soon see an end to the “Hegemony of Single Family”? Yesterday, HousingForward Virginia and the Alliance…
Read MoreMicroblog #80: Is housing now a mainstream issue?
Housing is more important to voters than ever. What does that mean for Virginia? In November, voters in…
Read MoreMicroblog #78: Tech for housing
Fighting eviction? There’s an app for that. Eviction rates in Virginia are a big topic in the industry….
Read MoreMicroblog #70: Minneapolis goes bold
Minneapolis Is Rocking the Boat with a Radical Plan to Make Housing Affordable. And It Just Might Pass….
Read MoreBest Planning Practices: Metropolitan Transportation Plans (US DOT/FHWA, 2012)
Regionalism and a regional approach to transportation is key to deconcentrating poverty. This Federal report summarizes best practices in creating regional transportation entities.
Read MoreEquitable Transit-Oriented Development: Examining the progress and continued challenges of developing affordable housing in opportunity and transit-rich neighborhoods (PRRAC, 2015)
Pairing affordable housing development with public transportation access is a best practice in planning and poverty deconcentration. This report evaluates how significantly this practice has been adopted by the affordable housing development industry and what room there is for improvement.
Read MoreEvaluation of Housing for Health Permanent Supportive Housing Program (RAND, 2017)
RAND conducted a formative evaluation to provide early feedback on program implementation and performed an outcome evaluation examining the effects of the PSH program on county service utilization and service costs.
Read MoreAssessment of the New Jersey LIHTC Program (New Jersey Future, 2017)
To evaluate whether those changes had their intended effect, New Jersey Future compared affordable housing projects that received federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) between 2005 and 2012 with projects that received credits between 2013 and 2015, after the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (NJHMFA), which administers the tax credits, made significant changes to the criteria it uses to award them.
Read MoreBRIGHT Study Finds Improved Health at Boston Housing Authority’s Old Colony Homes (HUD, 2017)
For more than 15 years, Boston Housing Authority (BHA) has executed efforts to improve residents’ health through changes in environment and behavior. One of these initiatives was the Boston Residential Investigation on Green and Healthy Transitions (BRIGHT) study, a collaborative effort with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Committee for Boston Public Housing to measure the impact of healthy housing features and practices on resident health, satisfaction, and comfort. The study compared the health of residents living in the old housing with residents’ health in new units with healthy housing features and practices. The redeveloped housing included smoke-free housing policies, improved ventilation, and tight building envelopes.
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