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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.
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.
In Tulsa, like many US cities, the housing shortage has reached a crisis point. Strategies other municipalities are undertaking to incentivize bringing vacant properties into productive use offer lessons for Tulsa and any community seeking to address the housing supply crisis.
Many jurisdictions are considering or have already enacted zoning reforms to boost housing supply. Here’s what research tells us about when it delivers new housing and when it doesn’t.
The Milwaukee nonprofit Community Development Alliance offers a model for how community data organizations can strengthen housing equity efforts.