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7 January, 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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On November 20, 2024, PD&R hosted a Quarterly Update event
featuring two panels that discussed how transit-oriented
development (TOD) and affordable housing can complement each
other and explored ways to leverage resources that support
affordable housing development near transit. Participants
shared experiences and strategies from their communities in
creating successful partnerships between transit agencies
and affordable housing developers and described the fruitful
results as TOD neighborhoods have matured.
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PD&R
LEADERSHIP
Celebrating PD&R’s
Accomplishments in Driving HUD’s Mission Forward
In the Leadership Message, Solomon Greene, Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary at PD&R, reflects on the office’s accomplishments over the
last
2 years and future priorities. In recent years, HUD has expanded its role
in closing the housing supply gap while fortifying all communities against
the effects of climate change; built capacity to better harness technology
and innovation to advance housing research and policy development; elevated
and applied insights from people with lived experience to improve equity and
inclusion in PD&R’s work; and improved data support for HUD program
operations, among other achievements.
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IN PRACTICE
Preserving Affordability
Through Acquisition: Washington Housing Initiative
In the Washington, D.C. area, the Washington Housing Initiative (WHI) is a
partnership launched in 2018 by real estate firm JBG Smith and the nonprofit
Federal City Council to address the rental affordability needs of
moderate-income households. Using a market-based model, WHI raises private
capital through a social impact fund called the Impact Pool, that it lends
to WHI-affiliated Washington Housing Conservancy or another mission-driven
nonprofit to purchase and operate naturally occurring affordable rental
housing in high-opportunity neighborhoods with rising rents to preserve
affordability for moderate-income residents. Between January 2020 and April
2024, WHI had helped preserve more than 3,000 units of workforce rental
housing at 9 properties throughout the D.C. region.
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RESEARCH
Predicting Household Participation in Housing
Choice Voucher and Federal Housing Administration
Mortgage Insurance Programs
This article is the third in a series examining HUD’s
homeownership and rental assistance programs and identifies
the key household- and neighborhood-level drivers of program
participation. Researchers found that local context plays a
significant role in shaping variations observed in program
participation. Among the most important factors are the
prevalence of minority households, the prevalence of
low-income households, and whether an area is urban,
suburban, or rural. Looking at household-level
characteristics, researchers found that race, ethnicity,
age, and sex of the household head, and the number of
dependents are relevant factors. The research suggests that
program participation is a complex interaction between
household characteristics and location. These findings have
implications for future policy design and avenues for
research.
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TRENDING
Atlanta Spurs Affordable Development Through a
Housing Production Fund
To address declining levels of housing affordability,
Atlanta launched a revolving housing production fund in
2023, committing $38 million to support affordable housing
development on public land. The fund provides low-interest
mezzanine financing for new mixed-income, publicly owned
projects without LIHTC funds. Early efforts include
transferring 3 publicly owned properties to development
partners, which is expected to yield approximately 800
mixed-income units by 2030.
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SPOTLIGHT ON PD&R DATA
Navigating HUD’s
State
of the Cities Data Systems Building Permits Database
PD&R maintains the State of the Cities Data Systems (SOCDS) database, which
collects information on permits for residential construction at the state,
county, core-based statistical area, and permit-issuing jurisdiction levels.
This database is vital for facilitating analyses of housing supply trends in
the United States. This article offers an overview of the data available and
reviews how to use the database query tool and report generation tool.
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INTERNATIONAL & PHILANTHROPIC SPOTLIGHT
Visiting a
Groundbreaking Affordable Housing Project in Nairobi, Kenya
Cindy Campbell, Director of PD&R's International and Philanthropic Affairs
Division, recaps her participation in the Open Ended Intergovernmental
Expert Working Group on Adequate Housing for All, held from December 9 to
11, 2024, at the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) headquarters in
Nairobi, Kenya. Participants, representing nations worldwide, worked to
establish benchmarks for the next few years toward realizing the working
group’s goals. As part of the visit, HUD delegates toured the Mukuru
Affordable Housing Project, a government initiative to create over 13,000
units of housing, most of which are rent-to-own, in a development that will
provide services helping residents transition from informal to formal
settlement living.
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