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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.
While the Housing Choice Voucher program pays landlords, direct rental assistance would make the payment to the renter and would minimize or eliminate the need for landlords to interact with the housing agency. This alternative model presents both benefits and challenges.
Clean Slate policies seal older, more-minor, or nonconviction criminal records and have emerged as a way to reduce barriers to housing and employment for people with a criminal history.
An innovative partnership between Pretium Partners and the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership demonstrates how institutional investors and nonprofit housing providers can collaborate to expand affordable housing and create mutual benefits.
As climate disasters escalate, insurance is becoming more expensive and, in some cases, unavailable entirely. Housing policymakers need better data to ensure mortgage affordability in the face of rising insurance costs, but how we measure risk matters.
Deeply entrenched neighborhood segregation has foiled many school integration efforts, with school officials and housing stakeholders often working in silos instead of in partnership.
Misconceptions about Housing First ignore decades of evidence of its effectiveness. To end homelessness, policymakers should invest in evidence-backed solutions, such as permanent supportive housing.