Community Development | PD&R EDGE

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

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.

Scholars estimate that approximately 30,000 zoning districts are spread across the United States.

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

Many aspects of HUD’s work include a locational component.

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.

By 2016, American Legion Post 139 in Arlington, Virginia, was grappling with declining membership and a 50-year-old facility that made fulfilling the organization’s mission — to serve and provide community to American veterans — increasingly challenging.

In March 2023, the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) held its annual Housing Policy Forum, “Onward to Housing Justice.”

“While working for the Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) in my early 20s, one of my first assignments was to assess how well the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) formula targets community development needs.”

John Arthur Flats, an affordable senior housing development geared for members of the LGBTQ+ community, opened in 2022 in Cincinnati’s Northside neighborhood.

On March 27, 2023, a British delegation composed of government officials from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities; Local Trust, a place-based funder of community initiatives; the Young Foundation...

In Historic Filipinotown, a Los Angeles neighborhood that often goes by the nickname HiFi, the median income of residents is only 40 percent of Los Angeles County’s median income, and many residents are at risk of displacement.

Auckland is a vibrant city boasting a wide variety of food, art, and cultural attractions.