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Community Progress Calls on FHA to Improve Access to Rehab Mortgages

Center for Community Progress

On April 17, 2023, the Center for Community Progress submitted a response to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)’s Request for Information (RFI) Regarding Rehabilitation Mortgages. Due to systemic inequities and discrimination in the housing market, homeownership is the primary contributor to the racial wealth gap.

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How to Address Homelessness: Reflections from Research

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

A central finding of the review is that current research illustrates the importance of structural, or macro, causes of homelessness, and the need for policy responses that ameliorate high housing costs, low incomes, and income inequality. 2019 ; Collinson and Reed, 2017 ). 2021 ; Gubits et al.

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How One Library Marketer Transformed a Library Website: See the Stunning Before and After!

Super Library Marketing

I went to a new concept charter school in downtown Winston Salem that was housed in the basement of an office building,” explains Megan. She ended up at the Natrona County Library in March of 2019, working as a part-time Children’s Librarian. “I In October of 2019, I stepped into my current role as head of Marketing and PR.”

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Exploring Variations in ERAP Application Rates Across New York State

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Landlord outreach and participation remain crucial in turning obligated funds, which are earmarked once a tenant applies and is determined eligible, into payments, which are only made once landlords are aware of and complete their portion of the application. An additional 48,109 applications (26.4 We use the U.S.

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Do Lawyers Matter? Early Evidence on Eviction Patterns After the Rollout of Universal Access to Counsel in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In a special issue of Housing Policy Debate on evictions, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O’Regan, Sophie House, and Ryan Brenner analyze early findings from the NYC Universal Access to Counsel program (UAC). As of 2013, only 1 percent of New York City tenants were represented by lawyers in housing court. Background.

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How to Increase Accessible and Equitable Public Engagement

Social Pinpoint

Each session lasted three hours (10-1 pm and 5-8 pm), requiring a great deal of staff time in preparing and facilitating the open house events. In total, 120 people attended these open houses, which were broadly advertised and centrally located, with only 44 completing surveys.

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Why Heirs’ Property is a Problem for Vacancy and Abandonment

Center for Community Progress

This information could be used to facilitate outreach to those families around potential resources or programs to help resolve title or condition issues. This helps protect an individual’s housing stability and hopefully prevent an heirs’ property from becoming another vacant property. TEXAS : Adopted in 2019, Senate Bill 1943 (S.