Rental 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.

HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) developed new questions on forced moves that were included in the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey (HPS) beginning in June 2023.

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

Eviction imposes substantial harms on affected tenants, and the scale of this damage is enormous; an estimated 3.6 million evictions are filed annually in the United States.

On June 21, 2023, the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) released its annual State of the Nation’s Housing report.

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

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

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.

HUD created the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) in 2017 to assist local Continuums of Care (CoCs) in planning, developing, and implementing coordinated responses to youth experiencing homelessness.

Fifty years ago, HUD created the Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) in the midst of two very different demonstration projects: Operation Breakthrough and the Experimental Housing Allowance Program (EHAP).

Housing choice vouchers remain the largest rental assistance program in the United States, serving approximately 2.3 million households annually.

Each of HUD’s major program offices (Community Planning and Development, Housing, and Public and Indian Housing) oversee various programs that require operating parameters to govern the operations of each program.

On March 22, 2023, the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) held its first in-person Housing Policy Forum since 2019, entitled “Onward to Housing Justice.”

Sometime during the early 2000s, I attended a fundraiser for my children’s school.

Low-income renters are struggling with skyrocketing housing costs, a widening wealth gap, and insufficient affordable housing.

The coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately affected seniors, who are more prone to severe illness and death from COVID-19; are more likely to live in congregate settings; and are more likely to require in-person services, which increase their risk of exposure.

In Eagle River, Alaska, located approximately 15 miles from downtown Anchorage, the Cook Inlet Housing Authority (CIHA) is helping revitalize the city’s downtown while providing affordable housing and green amenities to seniors, families, and other residents.

As the coronavirus pandemic has progressed, the structures in place to distribute aid to affected U.S. households have changed..

Reforming the Eviction System During and After the Pandemic

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program is a first-of-its-kind program, providing historic levels of assistance that have enabled vulnerable households to pay their rent and remain housed.