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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.
Addressing the housing crisis will require leveraging the federal government’s many tools, including the tax code, the largest source of government investment in housing. Lawmakers have several opportunities to do so in the upcoming tax package.
Today’s housing crisis and the resulting instability threatens the well-being of millions of children across the country.
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.