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New Report Documents Growing “Crisis of Affordability” for Renters
More than 80 percent of households earning under $15,000 a year — roughly equivalent to full-time work at the minimum wage — paid more than 30 percent of their income for housing in 2012, a new report...
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Better Federal Policy Needed to Address Rental Affordability Crisis
Housing has become increasingly unaffordable for many Americans, especially those with the lowest incomes, as a recent report from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies documents and I pointed out...
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Why the Ryan Plan Should Worry Those Who Are Concerned About the Affordable...
A centerpiece of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s poverty plan is the proposal to consolidate 11 safety net programs — including four housing assistance programs — into a single, flexible...
View ArticleSequestration’s Effects Linger for Housing Agencies
The 2013 sequestration budget cuts caused severe shortfalls at state and local housing agencies that administer federal rental assistance programs, and the cuts are continuing to affect low-income...
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One Way to Help Poor Kids Do Better in School: Help Their Families Move to...
Housing location makes a difference in low-income children’s short- and long-term success, as we detail in our new paper. There’s growing evidence that violent, stressful, high-poverty neighborhoods...
View ArticleNeighborhoods Do Matter to Kids’ Success
Do neighborhoods matter to kids’ well-being and long-term success? Intuition says yes — indeed, families that can afford to often bet large sums that locating in good neighborhoods with strong schools...
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Sequestration’s Toll: 100,000 Fewer Low-Income Families With Housing Vouchers
Forced by the sequestration funding cuts to scale back their voucher programs, state and local housing agencies were helping about 100,000 fewer families in June 2014 than in December 2012, before the...
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Helping Children Avoid Homelessness
Many American children won’t have a safe, stable home this holiday season. Homelessness among families with children isn’t an intractable problem; federal rental assistance — like the Housing Choice...
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Three Takeaways from HUD’s 2016 Budget Request
My latest post for the National Housing Institute’s Rooflines blog lists three key facts about the President’s 2016 budget request for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The full...
View ArticleFixing Sequestration Is Key to Restoring Housing Vouchers and Reducing...
With millions of renters facing unaffordable housing costs and homelessness a large problem in many areas, policymakers should fully reverse the loss of 100,000 housing vouchers due to the...
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