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PD&R UPDATES
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12 DECEMBER, 2023
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CASE STUDIES
Washington, D.C. Builds
Transitional Housing in the
Southwest Waterfront
Neighborhood
The Aya is a seven-story apartment
building in Washington, D.C.’s
Southwest Waterfront neighborhood. All
50 units serve as transitional housing
for families who experienced or were
on the verge of experiencing
homelessness. The Aya is one of
several such projects the District
developed throughout the city in the
wake of the closure of the
city’s large aging homeless
shelter. The distinctive building has
a stair-like shape and is LEED
Gold-Certified. Common areas in the
Aya include computer rooms, a dining
room, children’s play areas, and
a community health clinic. Support
staff can help residents with
permanent housing search assistance,
job counseling, and other wraparound
services. The apartments are within a
short walk of a grocery store,
library, Metrorail station, and other
amenities.
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NEW REPORTS
Using Incentives to Reduce Nonresponse Bias in
the American Housing Survey
Facing declining response rates to the American Housing
Survey (AHS), HUD enlisted the Office of Evaluation
Sciences (OES) at the General Services Administration to
conduct an incentive experiment. OES aimed to improve
data quality and reduce survey nonresponse bias by
targeting incentives to households with the highest
probabilities of nonresponse. The 2021 AHS experiment
involved varying incentive amounts ($1, $3, $5, $10) and
testing targeted versus nontargeted approaches. Results
showed that targeting did not reduce survey nonresponse
bias, but the targeted group exhibited higher response
rates than the nontargeted group. Despite the mixed
outcomes, the report provides detailed insights into the
study design, methods, and results.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Worst Case Needs Housing Trends
Data
Embark on a voyage through the decades with HUD
User's Worst Case Needs Housing Trends Data
tool. This data visualization tool draws from
the rich well of HUD’s Worst Case Housing
Needs reports from 1978 to 2021. It reveals the
intricate dynamics of housing trends for
households, including very low-income renter and
owner households. You can delve into the trends
shaping the sufficiency of rental supply and
elevate your understanding of housing dynamics
with this data, exclusively available on HUD
User.
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Call For Papers:
Cityscape Symposium - Lessons
Learned from HUD’s Family
Self-Sufficiency Program Evaluation
In 2025, Cityscape intends to publish
several articles in a symposium that explore
strategies for improving program outcomes for
HUD’s Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS)
program. A central goal is to highlight programs
that perform well on measurable outcomes,
including reducing the FSS drop-out/exit rate,
recruiting and retention strategies, and
achieving long-term income growth. Papers may be
from any discipline but broad enough for a
multidisciplinary audience. Articles must be
original work not published elsewhere.
Submitted papers deemed appropriate for the
symposium will be peer-reviewed and may need to
be revised and resubmitted before a final
decision on publication is made. To be
considered for the Cityscape symposium
on Lessons Learned from HUD’s Family
Self-Sufficiency Program, papers must be
submitted by May 1, 2024. Submit papers to both
of the following email addresses: Mark Shroder
(mark.d.shroder@hud.gov) and Regina Gray (regina.c.gray@hud.gov).
PD&R is also seeking reviewers. If you are
interested in being a peer reviewer for this
symposium, please let us know and provide a
current CV so that we can match you with
appropriate papers.
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