Results for Housing Programs

Households that enter a US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) assisted housing program to help extremely low-income renters can sometimes remain in it indefinitely, but can also leave it because of rising income, eviction, or changing household needs. This study sought to determine how long households stay in HUD rental assistance programs, including …

In Race for Profit, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor shows how even those housing policies that sought to create more Black homeowners were stymied by racism and a determination to shrink the government’s presence.

by Mike Tobias, Senior Producer/Reporter, NET News
Rickie and Jennifer watch television in their apartment. (Photo by Mike Tobias, NET News)
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Mike Tobias, Senior Producer/Reporter, NET News
July 29, 2015 - 6:45am
About 10,000 people are homeless in Nebraska each year. Recently two names dropped off that list, an Omaha couple who were living in a tent camp. In February we introduced…

A roundup of studies on the Housing First program and its impact on chronic homelessness among those with mental illnesses and/or substance abuse problems.

The Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program is committed to the Healthy People goal of eliminating elevated blood lead levels in children by 2020. CDC continues to assist state and local childhood lead poisoning prevention programs, to provide a scientific basis for policy decisions, and to ensure that health issues are addressed in decisions about housing and the environment.

In this short video, Steve Osburn of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate offers three steps you should take if you're accused of a fair housing violation. R...

HOUSING'S ONLY PART OF THE ANSWER. Giving each homeless family we serve a safe, stable place to live is important to what we do at Family Renew Community. But it's not what we're all about. We're about offering every mother, father and child who stays with us the opportunity to change their lives. This involves spending time with the families - guiding them to explore their needs, talents, stumbling blocks and desires, helping them plan their path out of homelessness and connecting them…

GHHI replaces stand-alone housing intervention programs with an integrated, whole-house approach that produces sustainable green, healthy and safe homes.

When I was fresh out of graduate school, all I wanted to do was work in public housing. I am willing to bet this does happen often. I had zero clue what I was doing, had zero practical experience and about 8 years of merchandizing Coca-Cola for job background. I applied for 43 different jobs at 31 different housing authorities. I never received one phone call or email back. It was a blood bath for a new guy trying to get into a…

Housing mobility programs help low-income families with children use Housing Choice Vouchers to move to high-opportunity neighborhoods. These neighborhoods often have less poverty, better schools, less crime, and more resources such as grocery stores and parks, which together promote better health and life satisfaction for parents and children and improve children’s chances of succeeding in school and earning more as adults.

While many cities and states have adopted much-needed programs to boost affordable housing, the breadth of rental unaffordability indicates that this is a national problem in need of a national solution.

The Rental Assistance Program is here to help keep Illinois families stably housed, and ensure that tenants and Housing Providers/Landlords are financially secure to prevent a tide of evictions due to COVID-19.

Learn how to overcome evictions and bad rental history in a housing search.

Rental-assistance programs and public housing see increased funding.

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The juvenile justice system’s goal is to rehabilitate youths; when youths enter programs and facilities, there are many pieces of the puzzle to successfully rehabilitate the youth and reintegrate them into the community but one unmistakable piece is the youth’s family and social supports. Where do youths go when they are released? Who is there to help them succeed? A national wave of research focusing on…

Having just got off the plane from a trip to Los Angeles for the annual National Alliance to End Family Homelessness Conference, I am filled with key buzzwords of the “new normal” and “best and promising practices”: data, outcomes, prevention, intensive case management and wrap-around services, critical time intervention, trauma-informed care, coordinated entry and rapid re-housing. Increasingly, family homelessness is being recognized and researched as a…

Rapid re-housing, an intervention that helps homeless families exit shelters and get back into permanent housing quickly, provides short-term help with housing expenses and case management focused on housing stability. Rapid re-housing is a relatively new but, as early evidence shows, promising strategy that communities across the country are adopting. Drawing on program data and early findings from evaluations in progress, this brief describes rapid re-housing…

Ever wonder how our city's money gets spent? Why can we spend MORE on police than on youth programs, violence prevention and housing combined? It all happens...

Everyone should have the ability to take time away from work to care for themselves and loved ones without risking their financial stability. People who call Virginia home agree: a 2020 study found that 84% of registered voters in Virginia support a 12-week paid family and medical leave policy that all working people would be able to access. Virginia residents working for the federal government and…