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24 July, 2025

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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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The Housing Choice Voucher program is the nation’s largest federal rental assistance program, serving approximately 2.3 million households annually who use vouchers to find and afford rental housing on the open market. Participants’ overall “success rate” — the proportion of searches by new voucher households that resulted in a successful lease-up — is a useful barometer for assessing the prevalence of barriers that voucher-eligible families face, yet measuring that rate has historically required costly data collection efforts. New PD&R-funded research by the NYU Furman Center demonstrates the feasibility of leveraging existing HUD administrative data to calculate success rates at the national and public housing agency levels.

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PD&R LEADERSHIP

Elaine Ng. Housing Affordability Across the Country

In the Leadership Message, Elaine Ng, Economic and Market Analysis Division regional director for HUD Regions IX and X, discusses trends in housing affordability for both homebuyers and renters. As of the first quarter of 2025, homeownership was unaffordable in 17 states, reflecting a decline in affordability compared with the first quarter of 2020. During 2023, the latest year for which data are available, rental housing was affordable in only 16 U.S. states, including the District of Columbia, down from 24 states as of 2019.

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IN PRACTICE

Affordable Housing Supports Neighborhood Revitalization Near Downtown Nashville
In Nashville, Tennessee, developers increasingly have turned to infill development near the city’s downtown as more distant areas have been built up and demand for housing in dense, walkable neighborhoods has risen. Built by developer Dominium, 900 at Cleveland Park is helping to fill that demand, adding 256 units of affordable housing to a previously vacant site along a main artery. The project also contributes to the city’s broader goals for the area’s gradual, guided growth to create an active, mixed-use place with homes, jobs, parks, schools, and cultural amenities.

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TRENDING

Impact of Accessory Dwelling Units Legislation
In 2021, the state of California passed laws aimed at increasing housing production and streamlining permitting by removing barriers to accessory dwelling unit (ADU) construction, including eliminating owner-occupancy mandates for ADUs, streamlining the approval process, and requiring municipalities to offer preapproved ADU plans. To better understand the impact of that legislation, PD&R is funding studies conducted by the University of California, Irvine, and University of California, Los Angeles, to examine how rents and land values have changed and to assess how ADUs are being used.

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HOUSING at 250

The front of the Robert W. Ingersoll House. Kit Homes in America: Ordered by Mail, Delivered by Rail

During the first half of the 20th century, thousands of American families were able to realize the dream of homeownership by purchasing a kit home by mail. These mail-order kits included most of the materials, supplies, and instructions needed to build a house that, after being delivered by rail and truck and assembled on the purchaser’s site, was virtually indistinguishable from a conventional home. After their introduction in the United States in the late 19th century, kit homes remained popular into the 1950s. The legacy of kit homes continues to this day, having helped lay the groundwork for today’s large-scale suburban homebuilding industry and the production of modular and manufactured housing.

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