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…
As our recently released 2016 State of the Nation’s Housing report highlights, rental housing affordability remains a pervasive—and growing—problem for millions of renter…
In the early 1970s, in response to growing concerns about the housing conditions of poor families, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) developed a…
Several weeks ago, President Obama released his final budget proposal to Congress. In it, the President requests $48.9 billion in gross discretionary funding for HUD—a $1.6…
Note: Data includes vacant for-rent units and those that are rented but not yet occupied. Excludes no-cash rentals and other rentals where rent is not paid monthly. Source…
Between 2004 and 2014, aggregate outstanding student loan debt has more than tripled in real value. Even as households shed other types of non-housing-related debt, student…
In the last several presidential debates, both Democratic and Republican candidates have referenced the mounting costs associated with a college education, which have…
