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Calculating Success Rates for the Housing Choice Voucher Program using HUD Administrative Data

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The Housing Choice Voucher program is the nation’s largest rental assistance program, providing critical support to 2.3 Ensuring its continued effectiveness requires understanding not just where vouchers succeed, but also where improvements can help more families secure stable housing. million low-income households.

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Housing for Individuals Experiencing Chronic and Unsheltered Homelessness

NLC (National League of Cities)

Many communities, advocates, residents and local leaders are raising the alarm about one of our country’s seemingly intractable challenges: More people are facing or experiencing homelessness, with many living outside of the formal shelter and supportive housing system.

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Housing For: Renters

NLC (National League of Cities)

Since 2020, the share of renter households has been growing rapidly. Renters now make up more than a third of all U.S. households. Renters represent a robust and diverse group of people from all demographic backgrounds: How Is the Rental Market Changing?

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How Penn State built an all-in-one campus resource app on Modo Labs’ development platform using AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Penn State Go officially launched in January 2020 and COVID-19-related shutdowns began a few months later. Since 2020, the app has had 332,000 downloads and has logged around 119 million lifetime user interactions, with 85 percent of students using the app at least one time a week.

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How local governments are closing the financial gap for affordable housing developments

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Affordable housing developers, particularly those using the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) to build new low-income rental housing, are also feeling the effects of this challenging development environment. 1] The data shows that rising costs are taking a toll on new affordable housing projects.

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2024 Update: Local governments are closing the financial gap for affordable housing developments

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Earlier this month, DFI examined how local governments in North Carolina have stepped in to make new affordable housing construction economically viable after a historic increase in construction costs and elevated interest rates. In August, the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency (NCHFA) released the latest funding awards for 2024.

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Housing boom in most of the US could ease shortage, but cost is still a problem

GCN

There are 5 million new housing units since 2020, mostly in the South and West, but supply has still not caught up with demand.

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