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An overlooked group in discussions of rental affordability are households who occupy a unit without payment of rent. Non-cash renters fall into one of three broad categories…

As programs that address the housing needs of middle-income renters become increasingly common in an environment of limited resources, it is crucial to understand the…

Housing affordability challenges have crept increasingly up the income scale and have left a record-high share of middle-income renter households with cost burdens. In…

In response to housing affordability challenges rapidly climbing the income scale, state and local governments have adopted policies and programs to explicitly address the…

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…