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Accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, have been proposed as a way to add housing stock to address the country’s housing crisis. ADUs are independent living spaces, outfitted…

Nonprofit housing organizations are using accessory dwelling units (ADUs) to meet the demand for affordable housing in the United States. ADUs increase opportunities for…

In 2012, the government of Colombia launched a national program to provide 100,000 free housing units to the country’s poorest residents, including some of the more than six…

How are neighborhood communities created when the government provides free housing to a specific population? The paper examines the formation processes of displaced…

Governing authorities in cities around the world are facing challenges to incentivize compact and more inclusive cities through investments in social housing. This paper…

Around the world, mayors and other urban officials confront significant obstacles when they try to use investments in social housing to help make their cities more inclusive…

Today, when more than one in three American households live in rental housing, ongoing erosion in renter incomes combined with ever rising rents has pushed the number of…

End of year festivities and Congressional budget deliberations in 2012 unfortunately diverted attention away from the critical task of ensuring that all Americans have access…

During the past decade, the housing finance system contributed to a boom-and-bust cycle that triggered the greatest economic crisis since the 1930s. A brief but…

W12-2: This paper focuses on four critical policy challenges in the area of housing finance that were developed with input from the What Works Collaborative during the…