Affordable Housing | PD&R EDGE

Among the research that the Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) produces, one of the most high-profile products is the series of Worst Case Housing Needs reports to Congress.

A growing shortage of affordable homes, difficulties coordinating policy among different levels of government...

In the city of Alexandria, Virginia, located across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., a public-private partnership...

California is home to 12 percent of the U.S. population, but 30 percent of Americans experiencing homelessness live in the state.

In 2022, 425 Grand Concourse opened as a mixed-use affordable housing project in New York City’s South Bronx neighborhood.

On July 25, 2023, HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) hosted a PD&R Quarterly Update event...

In 2016, the small city of Wilson, North Carolina, experienced flooding from Hurricane Matthew.

The 2023 Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning Competition.

Initially built in 1992 as a residential hotel for volunteers of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, a Jehovah’s Witness organization, the 90 Sands building in Brooklyn’s downtown Dumbo neighborhood reopened in 2022 as permanent affordable housing.

“Housing in the Context of Neighborhood Decline,” a working paper from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University written by Sharon Cornelissen and Christine Jang-Trettien, discusses the effects of urban neighborhood decline on housing.

San Jose, California, is the Bay Area’s largest city and the seat of Santa Clara County.

Lisbon, Portugal’s capital and largest city, is home to more than 3 million people.

Sociologist Matthew Desmond, author of the 2016 book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City and a MacArthur Fellow, joined Mary Cunningham, vice president for metropolitan housing and communities policy at the Urban Institute, and Myra Jones-Taylor, the Urban Institute’s chief policy impact officer, in a discussion about how individuals, policymakers, and communities can address and resolve the problem of poverty.

Dale Carnegie is a 170-unit permanent supportive housing (PSH) project in Houston’s Sharpstown neighborhood.

Data are central to the efficient and equitable achievement of policy objectives, and agencies at all levels of government maintain countless datasets to further these ends.

North Natomas’ Staybridge Suites is one of many hotels across California to undergo conversion into permanent supportive housing using funds from California’s Homekey program.

Robust public transit is an important complement to affordable housing.