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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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Our Work on the January 6th Attack

GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

A House of Representatives’ special committee held a number of hearings earlier this summer that examined the January 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol. At the request of congressional members and committees, we have also issued several.

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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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CED and Affordable Housing: How Does Manufactured Housing Fit In?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing is a basic issue for anyone interested in CED. Behind the headline are a host of issues that both foster hope in how to address affordable housing needs and the realization of the many steps it may take to get there. in 2021 is $124,400 (average of single and double-wide, not including land).

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply. These policies range from substantive revisions to zoning codes to procedural reforms to the land use approval process.

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UK Biobank enables medical research worldwide through vast database powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

It houses a vast, continuously growing dataset of biological, health, and lifestyle information. This led to the establishment and launch in 2021 of the secure, cloud-based UK Biobank Research Analysis Platform (RAP) , which is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the Europe (London) Region and enabled by DNAnexus.

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Quote on housing that's very apt: "As demand for housing rises, Philadelphia’s neighborhoods can either remain affordable or remain low-density. They cannot do both"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's relevant to both strong and weak markets, because even in weak markets, there probably isn't enough housing. Like a lot of Salt Lake west side is mostly single family housing. If you want to support schools, you need more population, and given the housing demographics there, that means multiunit housing.

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