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2 April, 2024
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PD&R Edge, an online magazine,
provides you with a snapshot view of our newly
released research, periodicals, publications, news, and commentaries on
housing
and urban development issues.
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Effective homeless response systems require a strategic,
evidence-based approach to maximize local resources.
Targeted prevention, for instance, is a form of assistance
designed to prevent at-risk individuals and households from
experiencing homelessness, reducing first-time homelessness
and decreasing inflow into the homeless response system.
Service providers can use qualitative and quantitative data
to deploy resources more efficiently and effectively to test
new innovations and improve best practices.
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PD&R LEADERSHIP
Four New Lessons from Five
Decades of Innovation, Evidence, and Impact
In the Leadership Message, Solomon Greene, Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Policy Development and Research, discusses key insights that
emerged from the “PD&R at 50” article series, reflecting on 50
years of
policy development and research at HUD and observing that dedicated
personnel and a commitment to rigorous research practices and fact-based
policymaking have been central to PD&R’s role in advancing HUD
objectives.
While these have been central to PD&R historically, they also serve as
enduring pillars for future work, as HUD pursues its mission “to
create
strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for
all.”
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IN PRACTICE
Piloting a New Model for Affordable Homeownership in
Rural Colorado
Rural areas face distinct challenges to housing
affordability, including lower area median incomes, higher
housing maintenance needs, and limited construction
capacity. To address these challenges, developer Rural Homes
is piloting a new model for affordable homeownership
development that combines modular construction, low-cost
financing, government commitments of surplus land, and
affordable mortgages. Pinion Park, in Norwood, Colorado, is
the first such project to come online and consists of 24
deed-restricted, single-family homes for sale to qualified
buyers who earn between 60 and 120 percent of the area
median income.
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PD&R AT 50
Moving on to
51
HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research emerged
in
1973, following the Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation
division’s merger with the Office of Research and
Technology. Another reorganization in 2023 added data and
technical assistance to PD&R’s duties. This change
presents
opportunities to integrate learning from HUD research and
evaluations into technical assistance design and delivery
and to train technical assistance providers on HUD data and
data tools. This added expertise will also help shape future
iterations of HUD’s Learning Agenda, giving data and
technical assistance an even greater role as PD&R looks
toward its next 50 years.
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SPOTLIGHT ON PD&R DATA
The Housing and Health Data
Dashboard, a New HUD USER Resource for Researching Social
Determinants of Health
HUD recently launched the Housing and Health Data Dashboard, a new resource
that serves as a hub for users wishing to access HUD-owned or HUD-linked
data to support health and housing research. Data are organized into five
broad categories: HUD administrative data, housing survey data, data
linkages with the U.S. Census, data linkages with other federal agencies,
and PD&R evaluation study data. HUD will update the Housing and Health Data
Dashboard quarterly to ensure its accuracy and share information on the
status of forthcoming linkages.
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suggestions to editor@huduser.gov.
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