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The Community Foundation of Jackson Hole's Housing Solutions Initiative brings together cross-sector partners to address local housing affordability and accessibility using the Urban Institute’s Policy and Systems Change Compass. This collaboration offers early lessons for other communities looking to develop a similar collective to address local challenges’ root causes.
Through the Just Home Project, communities are advancing housing and supportive service solutions for transition-age youth, generating insights on how to expand opportunity and improve outcomes for young people facing housing instability.
Louisville, like most places in the US, has limited accessible housing options for residents with disabilities. Gathering Strength has analyzed the city’s accessible housing needs, and their work offers an example for communities seeking to address the accessible housing shortage.
New analysis of rental ledgers shows rapid increase in utility charges for renters.
Housing projects that aim to reduce recidivism are more effective when informed by people with lived experience of homelessness or housing instability. Examples from the Just Home Project sites offer approaches to garnering and recognizing community input.
Many renters are increasingly locked out of the primary wealth-building pathway in the United States: homeownership. Compass Working Capital and national partners are adapting lessons from the Family Self-Sufficiency program to the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program to increase opportunity.
One organization in Western North Carolina, PODER Emma, has combined community insights with a survey in mobile home communities, and a land parcel analysis tool to use data to advance long-term housing stability and affordability.