Housing
| Publication | Category | Topic |
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| Advancing Decarbonization in Regulated Multifamily Affordable Housing The policy levers contained in this working paper outline a series of steps that can be taken to advance decarbonization today, create sustainable systems change, and climate align housing for our future.
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Center for Impact Finance | Community Development Finance, Housing |
| Permanent Supportive Housing as a Solution to Homelessness In this perspectives brief, author Antonio Serna examines both the successful strategies and the challenges faced in implementing permanent supportive housing (PSH) in Massachusetts in the hope that these lessons will further PSH as a solution in other settings.… |
Center for Social Policy in Practice | Community, Housing |
| CDFIs Can Make the SBA PPP Loan Program Work for Smaller, Minority-Owned, and Women-Owned, Small Businesses As currently being implemented by the Small Business Administration, the loans made available through the $349 billion Paycheck Protection Program, part of the CARES Act recently enacted to address the COVID-19 crisis, are likely to significantly bypass smaller small… |
Center for Impact Finance, COVID-19 | Community Development, Community Development Finance, COVID-19, Economic Development, Housing, Low Income |
| "Not very many options for the people who are working here" In this brief, we use interview and focus group data to describe some of the ways that restricted rural housing stock affects working families in two rural New England counties, and explore solutions proposed by rural residents and experts to make housing affordable… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Housing, Rural, Safety Net |
| Renters More Often Burdened by Housing Costs After Recession: Nearly Half of All Renters Spent Over 30 Percent of Income on Housing by 2010 This brief uses data from the 2007 and 2010 American Community Survey to document changes in the proportion of household income spent on rental costs (rent plus utilities) during the Great Recession, by region (Northeast, Midwest, South, and West) and place type (… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Housing, Rural, Urban |
| Southeastern Kentuckians Remain Optimistic Through Great Recession: Growing Concerns about Sprawl, Housing, and Recreational Opportunities In May and June of 2007, Carsey Institute researchers surveyed 1,000 randomly selected respondents from Kentucky’s Harlan and Letcher counties, and between November 2010 and January 2011, they returned to survey 1,020 different randomly selected respondents from the… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Community, Economic Development, Housing, Poverty, Public Opinion |
| Household Reports of Energy Assistance Receipt Increased 48 Percent During Recession: Proposed Cuts Threaten Vulnerable Families This brief examines heating assistance usage and the implications of President Obama's 2012 budget proposal to cut $2.5 billion from the $5.1 billion energy assistance fund for low-income families at a time when families are struggling with higher energy costs… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Family, Housing, Poverty, Safety Net |
| Homeless Teens and Young Adults in New Hampshire (co-publication with the Children's Alliance of New Hampshire) More than 1,000 adolescents and young adults in New Hampshire are homeless, and their numbers are growing. The brief, co-published with the Children's Alliance of New Hampshire, provides an estimate of homeless youth in New Hampshire calculated from national and… |
Evaluation, New Hampshire, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Family, Housing, New Hampshire, Young Adults |
| Rural Children Are More Likely to Live in Cohabiting-Couple Households As cohabiting increases nationwide, new data show that the growing rate of children in these households is most pronounced in rural areas. This brief analyzes recent U.S. Census Bureau data to explore these trends and patterns.
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Demography, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Demography, Housing, Rural, Young Adults |
| Experience of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund in Mainstreaming of Acquisition Loans to Cooperative Manufactured Housing Communities, The This study aimed to provide evidence of the extent to which a financial product―land acquisition loans for manufactured home parks―performed well and was adopted by mainstream financial institutions. The study hypothesized that The New Hampshire Community Loan Fund’s… |
Evaluation, New Hampshire | Economic Development, Housing, New Hampshire |
