Within the first few months of the pandemic, news reports began to describe the serious impacts of the coronavirus on older adults, especially those living in congregate…
These Issue Briefs, authored by Rachel Bratt, a Senior Research Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies and former visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of…
Rebuilding disinvested communities takes more than money. Rather, as research done by the Initiative for Responsible Investment (IRI) at the Harvard Kennedy School has shown…
In the Spring of 2017, the Initiative for Responsible Investment interviewed a number of awardees of the Partnerships for Raising Opportunity in Neighborhoods, better known…
Although federal guidelines allow foreclosed homes to be sold with occupants, in a recently published article in Housing Policy Debate, I report that the guidelines are…
This following paper explores what housing organizations can gain from engaging in partnership-driven forms of comprehensive community development. It specifically looks at…
Despite the private for-profit sector's importance in affordable housing development, there has been relatively little research on the sector. This working paper explores one…
Despite the private for-profit sector’s importance in affordable housing development, there has been relatively little research on the sector. Many researchers working on…
Last December, the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development released the latest figures on the percentage of affordable housing in each of the state’s…
RR07-12: The strengths and weaknesses of nonprofit organizations in developing and owning subsidized rental housing are examined. In the course of this study, a number…
