HUD’S OFFICE OF POLICY DEVELOPMENT & RESEARCH

BIENNIAL REPORT FY 2013-2014

MOVING FORWARD

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development | Office of Policy Development and Research

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Message From the Assistant Secretary 1

Introduction 2

Overview, Mission, and Core Functions 2

PD&R’s People and Organization 3

Organization Charts 4

PD&R’s Funding and Budget 6

Research and Technology 7

Transformation Initiative 7

Data and GIS 10

The American Housing Survey 10

The Rental Housing Finance Survey 10

Fair Market Rent Data 11

Income Limits Data 11

CHAS Data 11

Administrative Data 11

GIS With a Purpose 12

Additional Data Efforts 13

Research and Demonstrations 16

Research Roadmap 16

Projects Recently Completed and Currently Underway 16

New Research Vehicles 24

PD&R’s Outreach and Dissemination 29

HUD USER 29

PD&R Mobile and Social Media 30

Convenings 32

Periodicals 37

Awards 42

PD&R’s Partner Engagement 45

Office for International and Philanthropic Innovation 45

Office of University Partnerships 47

Strong Cities, Strong Communities 49

Looking Ahead 52

Appendix: Publications and Data Sets 53

PD&R BIENNIAL REPORT 

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MESSAGE FROM THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY

It is my pleasure to present HUD’s PD&R Biennial Report FY 2013–2014: Moving Forward. As a relatively new assistant secretary, I am both impressed and proud of our accomplishments I joined a PD&R that has made great strides over the past six years In my role, I get to build on those strengths, and continue our efforts to have the greatest impact through our work moving forward

A critical step in having impact is selecting the right work on which to focus To that end, and as you may recall, PD&R devised an inclusive engagement process for developing our research agenda The resulting “Research Roadmap” has already proven itself to be more than just a strategic plan; rather, it serves as a guiding document for the continued implementation of PD&R’s mission and work It directly led to our robust pipeline of research projects addressing pressing policy areas, several of which are highlighted within these pages We are now undertaking our next version of this roadmap process, institutionalizing a sustainable process for stakeholder involvement in shaping a forward-looking research agenda

We can also increase our impact by expanding how we do our work Our Research Partnership Initiative, an exciting new method of partnering with outside researchers on projects of joint interest, is one example Research Partnerships permit a more flexible real-time method for addressing important policy questions with rigorous research Another new way we are partnering with others is through efforts to match the administrative data on HUD-assisted renters with their health-related data Through interagency collaboration we are moving forward on low-cost initiatives that will greatly enhance our knowledge about health status and the healthcare use (and costs) of assisted households, including the possible cost savings of various policies A third example builds from a lesson gleaned from our Roadmap process: the important role of HUD as a convener To continue in that role we developed our Expert Convenings vehicle, which permits us to quickly gather a group of experts on a timely policy topic of great interest to HUD and other policymakers

To have impact, our work needs to be communicated, and PD&R now has a collection of well-developed outlets for conveying our work and relevant knowledge more broadly, including The Edge, Evidence Matters, Cityscape, and our quarterly updates that are webcast These help move research and knowledge to where it can have influence, and create more avenues for engaging with stakeholders We have just refreshed our advisory boards for these vehicles, and are developing longer-term planning tools for increased impact

This report is also part of that communication and engagement strategy It highlights some of the most exciting and innovative work PD&R has accomplished within the last two years as well as documenting several of our projects that are in the pipeline As always, all of our work

can be found on HUDUserorg

Thank you for your support of PD&R and I look forward to our partnership in policy and practice in the years to come

Katherine M O’Regan

Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research

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INTRODUCTION

The US Department of Housing and (as amended in 1973), which authorizes Urban Development (HUD), Office of

programs of “research, studies, testing, and

Policy Development and Research (PD&R),

demonstrations relating to the missions and

is pleased to present fiscal years (FY) 2013

programs of the Department”

and 2014 Biennial Report The report

highlights some of PD&R’s most notable and

The mission of PD&R is to inform policy

transformative accomplishments over the past

development and implementation to

two years from October 1, 2012, through

improve life in American communities

September 30, 2014 It focuses on everything

through conducting, supporting, and sharing

that makes up PD&R: the mission, people,

research, surveys, demonstrations, program

funding, projects, data, dissemination and

evaluations, and best practices This mission

outreach, and partner engagement

is achieved through three interrelated core

functions as illustrated in the figure below

OVERVIEW, MISSION,

AND CORE FUNCTIONS

PD&R provides enterprise-wide support for

PD&R was established in 1973 The

HUD and works to achieve the Department’s

statutory authority for PD&R’s research

vision of being the preeminent source of

activities is in Title V of the Housing

research on housing and communities in the

and Urban Development Act of 1970

United States

PD&R’s Core Functions

Collect and analyze

Conduct research,

national housing

program evaluations,

market data

and demonstrations

(including with the

Census Bureau)

Provide policy advice and support

to the Secretary and program offices

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PD&R’S PEOPLE

AND ORGANIZATION

PD&R’s most important asset is its team expanded capacity will help PD&R sustain its of 141 employees working across seven

ability to meet the current and future research

offices and 11 divisions One of the many

and data needs of HUD and other partners

strengths of this team is the diverse expertise

of staff with backgrounds in economics,

PD&R’s 31 field economists are another

political science, law, sociology, geography,

strength and currently work in the 10 HUD

anthropology, criminology, architecture,

regional offices across the country Field

engineering, urban planning, business

economists are critical not only for PD&R,

administration, and public administration

but for all of HUD because they conduct

comprehensive housing market analyses

During the past two years, PD&R’s team

for publication; collect and maintain data

has experienced a number of changes such

on demographic, economic, and housing

as several key additions to the leadership

market conditions; conduct special studies;

team including Assistant Secretary Katherine

fulfill data requests; and prepare regional

O’Regan who was confirmed in April 2014

summaries of housing market conditions and

In 2014, PD&R launched the largest hiring

local housing market profiles for publication

effort in recent history to grow the team This

in US Housing Market Conditions reports

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PD&R ORGANIZATION CHART

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR

POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND

RESEARCH (PDR)

OFFICE OF UNIVERSITY

Katherine M. O’Regan

STRONG CITIES/STRONG

PARTNERSHIPS (OUP)

Assistant Secretary

COMMUNITIES (SC2)

Sherone E. Ivey

Jean Lin Pao

Mark A. Linton

Deputy Assistant Secretary

General Deputy Assistant Secretary

Executive Director

BUDGET, CONTRACTS, AND

MANAGEMENT AND

PROGRAM CONTROL DIVISION

ADMINISTRATIVE

(BCPCD)

SERVICES DIVISION (MASD)

Patrick J. Tewey

Jacqueline D. Buford

Director

Director

OFFICE OF DEPUTY

OFFICE OF DEPUTY ASSISTANT

OFFICE OF DEPUTY ASSISTANT

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR

OFFICE OF DEPUTY ASSISTANT

SECRETARY FOR RESEARCH,

SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC

INTERNATIONAL AND

SECRETARY FOR POLICY

EVALUATION, AND MONITORING

AFFAIRS (ODAS/EA)

PHILANTHROPIC INNOVATION

DEVELOPMENT (ODAS/PD)

(ODAS/REM)

(ODAS/IPI)

Kurt G. Usowski

Salin Geevarghese

Lynn M. Ross

Calvin C. Johnson

Deputy Assistant Secretary

Deputy Assistant Secretary

Deputy Assistant Secretary

Deputy Assistant Secretary

Edward J. Szymanoski

Kristin C. Pierre

Todd M. Richardson

Mark D. Shroder

Associate DAS

Director

Associate DAS

Associate DAS

ECONOMIC MARKET

POLICY DEVELOPMENT

PROGRAM EVALUATIONS

ANALYSIS

DIVISION (PDD)

DIVISION (PED)

DIVISION (EMAD)

Peter B. Kahn

Marge F. Martin

Carol S. Star

Director

Director

Director

PD&R Field Economists

Pamela R. Sharpe

Deputy Director

RESEARCH UTILIZATION

PROGRAM MONITORING

DIVISION (RUD)

AND RESEARCH

HOUSING FINANCE

DIVISION (PMRD)

ANALYSIS

DIVISION (HFAD)

Rachelle L. Levitt

Beth Walter Honadle

Director

Director

William Reeder

Director

Eileen Faulkner

Deputy Director

HOUSING AND

AFFORDABLE HOUSING

DEMOGRAPHIC

RESEARCH AND

ANALYSIS DIVISION (HDAD)

TECHNOLOGY

DIVISION (AHRTD)

Shawn J. Bucholtz

Elizabeth Cocke

Director

Director

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

AND PUBLIC FINANCE

DIVISION (EDPFD)

Alastair McFarlane

Director

Current Organization Chart as of September 15, 2014

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PD&R FIELD ECONOMIST ORGANIZATION CHART

ECONOMIC MARKET ANALYSIS

ECONOMIC MARKET ANALYSIS

DIVISION (EMAD)

DIVISION (EMAD)

Pamela R. Sharpe

Kevin P. Kane

Deputy Director, REE

Chief Housing Market Analyst, REE

Region I

Region II

Region III

Region IV

Region V

Boston Regional Office

New York Regional Office

Philadelphia Regional Office

Atlanta Regional Office

Chicago Regional Office

Pamela R. Sharpe (A)

Beverly Harvey (A)

Beverly Harvey

Charles Hugghins

Donald Darling

EMAD Field Director

EMAD Field Director

EMAD Field Director

EMAD Field Director

EMAD Field Director

Region VI

Region VII

Region VIII

Region IX

Region X

Ft. Worth Regional Office

Kansas City Regional Office

Denver Regional Office

San Francisco Regional Office

Seattle Regional Office

David Vertz

Donald Darling (A)

James H. Conner

Donald Darling (A)

EMAD Field Director

EMAD Field Director

EMAD Field Director

EMAD Field Director

EMAD Field Director

Oklahoma Field Office

Los Angeles Field Office

Randall Goodnight

Ikuo J. Nakano

Field Office Economist

Senior Economist/Team Leader

“I truly appreciate the opportunity to provide leadership in EMAD’s Gas/

Oil Task Force. PD&R analyzed housing markets in areas experiencing heightened oil and gas drilling activity, and the Task Force helped to inform policy makers of the complexities of the market dislocations. It has been a privilege to publish original research and present our findings at a State University of New York ‘Conversation in the Disciplines’ program on fracking and sustainable communities.”

–Sam Young

Field Economist,

(A) Acting

Denver Regional Office

Current Organization Chart as of September 15, 2014

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PD&R’S FUNDING

AND BUDGET

The main source of PD&R’s program the combined funding appropriated funding is appropriated through

under the Research and Technology

the Research and Technology (R&T)

account and funds appropriated under the

account There are also additional research,

Transformation Initiative Beginning in FY

evaluation, and demonstration funds

2010, PD&R allocated its R&T account

appropriated under HUD’s Transformation

funding to maintaining the national data

Initiative (TI) account These funding

infrastructure and dissemination activities

sources are the basis for PD&R’s overall

and its TI funding to research, evaluation,

research budget

and demonstrations efforts The sharp

increase in total funding in FY 2010 reflects

The graph below shows the history of

substantial increases for R&T to improve

PD&R funding for research, technology,

the national data infrastructure and for the

and demonstrations from FY 2008

creation of TI

through FY 2014 The exhibit illustrates

History of PD&R Funding Appropriations

(in millions)

$140,000

$120,000

$100,000

Research &

Technology

$80,000

Transformation

Initiative-Research

$60,000

b/

Transformation

a/

Initiative-

$40,000

Demonstrations

$20,000

0

FY 2008

FY 2009

FY 2010

FY 2011

FY 2012

FY 2013

FY 2014

a/ Excludes $24,699 for Office of University Partnerships grants

b/ Includes reprogramming

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RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY

R&T account also funds four other housing

In FY 2013, Congress appropriated $43594

surveys and the dissemination of PD&R’s

million in R&T funds for PD&R (amount

work, including HUDUserorg In FY 2014, reflects post-sequester funding) In addition

Congress enacted $460 million in R&T

there were $4524 million carryover and

funds for PD&R In addition, there were

recaptured funds for a total of $48118

$2269 million carryover and recaptured

million Nearly 80 percent of the R&T

funds for a total of $48269 million The

funding was used for housing surveys

chart below details actual obligations for FY

including the American Housing Survey The

2013 and projected obligations for FY 2014

RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY OBLIGATIONS

DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS

FY 2013

FY 2014

ACTUAL

PROJECTED

Core Research and Technology (R&T)

Market Surveys (Fixed)

$35,469

$37,700

Dissemination/Research Support

$6,788

$5,700

Program Metrics/Urban Data

$1,176

$600

Housing Finance Studies

$0

$1,000

Research Partnerships

$2,211

$1,000

Housing Technology

$200

$0

Total Core R&T

$45,844 a/

$46,000

a/ Recaptured funds included

TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVE

outcomes of HUD’s programs In FY 2013,

Congress enacted the Transformation

Congress appropriated $11183 in research

Initiative (TI) in FY 2010 to enable HUD

and demonstration funds for PD&R and

leadership to make substantial improvements

$362 million in technical assistance (TA)

in its policy and operational initiatives TI

funds through the TI account In FY 2014,

is a truly innovative approach to supporting

Congress appropriated $15 million for

HUD’s work in that it provides HUD with

research and demonstrations and $25 million

the funding, flexibility, and authority to

in TA

direct resources where they are most needed

in support of HUD’s strategic goals TI

PD&R plays two roles in TI: administering

funds are available for research, evaluation,

the research and demonstrations and serving

demonstrations, and technical assistance

as the executive sponsor—or coordinator—

The TI funding supports larger scale,

on HUD-wide technical assistance projects

complex, multiyear research studies and

Under TI, PD&R has funded some

demonstrations that span several years TI

groundbreaking research, evaluations, and

also provides critical funding for evaluating

demonstrations, which are detailed later in

the implementation, cost effectiveness, and

this report TI provided $71581 million in

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FY 2010, $16351 million in FY 2011, $118

Planning and Development, Housing,

million in FY 2012, $11183 million in FY

Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, and

2013, and $15 million projected for FY 2014

Public and Indian Housing) to develop

for research, evaluation, and demonstrations

an innovative single Notice of Funding

Availability (NOFA)—HUD Community

In FY 2013 and 2014, in its role of HUD-

Compass and Technical Assistance and

wide technical assistance coordinator,

Capacity Building—to award more than

PD&R was responsible for working across

$50 million for TA and capacity building

HUD’s programs to improve cross-program

that combines the $25 million in FY 2014

TA coordination and to better track TA

TI Technical Assistance funds with other

investments, recognizing that HUD’s

program specific Technical Assistance

customers often interact with a variety of

funds Community Compass TA equips

HUD programs as they receive housing and

communities with the knowledge, skills,

community development services In FY

tools, capacity, and systems to implement

2014, PD&R worked with several of HUD’s

HUD programs and policies successfully

program offices (offices of: Community

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TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVE (TI) OBLIGATIONS

DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS

FY 2013

FY 2014

ACTUAL

PROJECTED

TI Research

Demonstration Small Grant Program

$400

$0

Sustainable Communities Research Grant

Program

$500

$0

Impact of Rental Assistance

Demonstration (RAD) to Children

$400

$0

Living in Public Housing

Assessment of Native American &

Hawaiian Housing Needs

$0

$333

Multidisciplinary Research Team

$0

$750

Improving Community Resilience

Through Risk Modeling

$0

$500

Evaluation of Section 811 Project RAD

$0

$1,000

Evaluation of Rural Innovation Fund

$599

$0

Building Technology

$500

$0

Web-Based Utility Allowance Model

$376

$0

Impact of Housing on Young Children

$2,000

$0

Housing Discrimination Study

$6,787

$0

TI Demonstrations

Pre-Purchase Counseling

$2,473

$1,702

Rent Reform

$0

$3,750

Family Sufficiency

$1,898

$0

RAD Evaluation

$0

$2,480

Families Options Study

$4,390

$0

Technical Assistance*

One CPD Plus/Community Compass TA

$21,000

$22,000

Strong Cities, Strong Communities

National Research Network

$10,000

$0

TI Total

$51,323

$32,515

* One CPD Plus administered by CPD; Strong Cities, Strong Communities administered by PD&R.

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DATA AND GIS

PD&R creates, publishes, and maintains “When it comes to understanding a vast array of data critical for research,

the physical characteristics,

policy development, and program

socioeconomic relationships

implementation in the field of housing and

between residents and occupied

community development PD&R maintains

units, and the real estate profile of

this national data infrastructure by supporting

the Portland region, the American

five major national housing surveys as well as

Housing Survey is one of the

other sources of national housing data

first sources we immediately

turn to for information about

THE AMERICAN HOUSING SURVEY

our housing stock. It is the most

comprehensive and authoritative

American Housing Survey (AHS) is the

source of information we have

richest source of information about the

available on a regular basis. We

nation’s housing stock and the characteristics

rely on AHS data to support

of its occupants, and it has an important role

public policy and reinvestment

in assessing the performance of government

in our neighborhoods. The

housing programs PD&R provides funding,

information we derive from AHS

oversight, and leadership on the AHS while

data drive investments we make

the United States Census Bureau provides

in regional transportation and

operational management and conducts data

neighborhood redevelopment and

collection The funding devoted to the AHS

investment initiatives. Our public

in FY 2013 enabled PD&R to conduct the

constituencies rightfully demand

2013 AHS with 25 metropolitan surveys and

that Metro’s public policy and

to maintain an oversample of HUD-assisted

legislative decisions are supported

units in order to gain reliable statistics on

by the best available information

HUD-assisted tenants’ views of the condition

on hand and that our econometric

modeling and forecasting is based

of their housing The FY 2013 funding level

on sound research and data. We

also enabled the design and implementation

rely on sound economic data from

of five topical modules on various subjects

the Census to support our data

of interest, including public transportation,

and decisions.”

disaster preparedness, neighborhood social

–Dennis Yee

capital, neighborhood characteristics, and

Metro Economist

new questions to provide greater insight

Oregon Metro

into the causes of doubled-up households

THE RENTAL HOUSING

Fiscal year 2014 funding enabled PD&R to

FINANCE SURVEY

complete a redesign of the AHS for 2015 and

provides funding for the 2015 AHS national

The newest of the national surveys is the

sample As part of the redesign process,

Rental Housing Finance Survey (RHFS),

HUD is exploring how best to use publically

which includes a nationally representative

and commercially available data resources

sample of data on the financing of multiunit

to reduce respondent burden and improve

rental housing The RHFS, conducted in

accuracy of respondent-reported information

partnership with the US Census Bureau,

was conducted in 2012 and data were made

available to the public in early 2014 The

next RHFS will be conducted in 2015, with

data being available to the public in early

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2016 In addition to data on the financing

that have unusually high or low income-to-

of multiunit rental housing, the 2015 RHFS

housing-cost relationships

will include data on the financing of single-

family rental homes

CHAS DATA

HUD periodically receives custom

FAIR MARKET RENT DATA

tabulations of census data from the US

Fair Market Rents (FMRs) are gross rent

Census Bureau that are largely not available

estimates that include the shelter rent plus

through standard Census Bureau products

the cost of all tenant-paid utilities except

These data, known as the Comprehensive

telephones, cable or satellite television

Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS)

service, and Internet service Using data from

data, demonstrate the extent of housing

the US Census Bureau, HUD annually

problems and housing needs, particularly for

estimates FMRs for each metropolitan area

low-income households Importantly, local

and each nonmetropolitan county to ensure

governments use the CHAS data to plan how

that a sufficient supply of rental housing is

to spend HUD funds and HUD may use

available to program participants By law, in

them to distribute grant funds

any fiscal year, HUD must publish and make

available the final FMRs for use at the start

The primary purpose of the CHAS data is

of that fiscal year (October 1)

to demonstrate the number of households

in need of housing assistance; that is, the

HUD uses FMRs primarily to: determine

estimated number of households that have

payment-standard amounts for the Housing

certain housing problems and incomes low

Choice Voucher Program (HCVP);

enough to qualify for HUD’s programs

determine initial renewal rents for some

(primarily 30, 50, and 80 percent of Area

expiring project-based Section 8 contracts;

Median Income) The CHAS data are also

determine initial rents for housing assistance

important for considering the prevalence

payment contracts in the Moderate

of housing problems among different types

Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy

of households, such as those including

program; and serve as a rent ceiling in the

the elderly, disabled, and minorities

HOME rental assistance program

The CHAS data provide counts of the

numbers of households that fit these HUD-

INCOME LIMITS DATA

specified characteristics in HUD-specified

Federal law requires HUD to set income

geographic areas

limits that determine the eligibility of

applicants for HUD’s assisted housing

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

programs One of the major active assisted

In addition to supporting the major surveys

housing programs is the Section 8 Housing

discussed above, HUD also maintains

Choice Voucher program HUD’s Section

and makes public data using HUD’s

8 Income Limits begin with the production

administrative data HUD maintains data

of Median Family Income (MFI) estimates

on the approximately 5 million households

HUD uses the Section 8 program’s

living in public and assisted housing and on

FMR area definitions in developing MFI

community and housing investments made

estimates; therefore, HUD develops income

from such programs as the Community

estimates for each metropolitan area, parts

Development Block Grant (CDBG)

of some metropolitan areas, and each

program, HOME Investment Partnership,

nonmetropolitan county HUD calculates

and the LIHTC Program Data that PD&R

Section 8 Income Limits for every FMR area,

makes available publicly are described on the

with adjustments for family size and for areas

following page

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A PICTURE OF SUBSIDIZED HOUSEHOLDS.

this information for release in late

A Picture of Subsidized Households is a master

2014 The report will summarize tenant

compilation of information on subsidized

demographic information and household

housing from HUD’s major data collection

income and rent levels

systems The report is useful in answering

public policy and program questions without

GIS WITH A PURPOSE

revealing the identity of individual assisted

PD&R has played a key role in developing

families It presents statistics on the number

HUD’s geospatial capabilities over the past

and characteristics of households that receive

several years PD&R designed and developed

assistance through federal housing programs,

HUD’s Enterprise Geographic Information

including socioeconomic and demographic

System (eGIS) platform, a common

information such as family income, race,

geospatial infrastructure shared agency-wide

ethnicity, age of head of household, number

The eGIS platform supports a number of

of household members, disability, and

HUD program functions and serves as the

location and type of neighborhood For

Department’s primary source for geospatial

the report, PD&R aggregates household

data, services, and applications PD&R

data by program and at various geographic

designed and developed the geodatabase

levels—national, state, city, county, and

and service-oriented architecture that forms

census tract It includes the public housing

the backbone of the eGIS platform, and

program, housing choice vouchers, mod-

it will continue to oversee the operation,

rehab, Multifamily New Construction and

maintenance, and further development

Substantial Rehab, Section 236, and other

of the platform To support this effort,

miscellaneous multifamily programs Picture

PD&R manages a contract that the entire

data are currently available through 2013 and

Department is leveraging to create and

can be found on HUDUserorg

manage GIS solutions

LIHTC DATA. PD&R annually collects data

In addition, HUD continues to maintain

on properties placed in service through the

the Geocoding Service Center that geocodes

Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)

the addresses from all of HUD’s programs

program The data are provided to PD&R by

and is a critical component in supporting

the state and local housing finance agencies

HUD’s GIS initiatives PD&R leads the

(HFAs) that administer the program The

Department’s Geospatial Coordinating

database currently includes all properties

Committee, a formal governance body

placed in service through 2012 Data on

that manages HUD’s geospatial portfolio,

properties placed in service through 2013 will

establishes standards and operational

be collected in late 2014 The next update,

protocols for the eGIS platform, develops

including the 2013 properties, is expected in

the agency’s geospatial requirements, and

the spring of 2015 This database includes

supports the creation of future geospatial

data on all properties placed into service since

solutions The eGIS program is now working

the beginning of the program, but the most

with several HUD program offices to develop

reliable information begins in 1995, when

new and enhanced GIS solutions including:

PD&R began collecting the data

• The HUD Resource Locator, a smartphone

In 2008, the Housing and Economic

and Web locator service designed to

Recovery Act (HERA) required the state

connect HUD customers with current

and local housing finance agencies to

information on the availability of

submit LIHTC tenant data to HUD

affordable housing in proximity to any

PD&R is preparing a report summarizing

given site

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• Mapping capabilities to help HUD’s

“It’s an exciting time for GIS

Office of Public and Indian Housing

at HUD. For the first time, the

Real Estate Assessment Center manage its

agency is making a concerted

inspections more effectively

investment to further the use of

GIS throughout HUD, and with

• Mapping and reporting capabilities for

that investment comes a great

HUD’s Office of Affordable Housing

opportunity to make GIS an

Preservation to help it prioritize its affordable

integral part of our decision and

rental housing preservation efforts

mission support systems. HUD’s

• Housing market assessment capabilities

programs are by their very nature

and disaster grant management data to

place-based, the possibilities for

the Office of Community Planning and

using ‘the map’ as a platform for

Development Maps, an application that

everything we do as an agency are

permits users to relate the locations of

endless, whether it’s connecting

HUD-supported housing and community

our citizens to the information

development activities to transportation

they need, helping our grantees

infrastructure, flood plains, local economic

to target investments with

greater effect, or informing policy

trends, demographics, housing supply, and

decisions. The most rewarding

jurisdictional and program boundaries

part of my job is collaborating

• Further enhancement of the Affirmatively

with our program-area partners

Furthering Fair Housing Tool (AFFHT),

to build new applications that

which will provide critical support for

support the mission in some

HUD’s grantees as they incorporate elements

meaningful way.”

of HUD’s newly proposed fair housing

–Robert Renner

regulations in their planning efforts

Geospatial Team Lead

PD&R

• HUD’s GIS “storefront” that will enable

HUD staff, grantees, and the general public

ADDITIONAL DATA EFFORTS

to search or browse HUD’s growing catalog

of GIS data, services, and applications

PD&R has developed or assisted with the

• The first steps towards moving HUD’s

development of Qualified Census Tracts;

geospatial infrastructure to a cloud

Difficult Development Areas; special

computing environment with a

tabulation data for the Consolidated Plan;

collaborative online mapping environment

Distressed Asset Stabilization Program

for HUD staff and the hosting of the

targeted regions; inspection data of public

Location Affordability Portal, developed

and assisted households from HUD’s Real

by the Office of Economic Resilience,

Estate Assessment Center office; the data

now operated and maintained by eGIS

required for the Choice Neighborhoods

in federally shared cloud computing

and Promise Neighborhoods mapping

environment called GeoCloud

tools; United States Postal Service data on

vacant addresses and ZIP Code Crosswalk

Files; data from the Federal Emergency

Management Agency and the Small Business

Administration to assess unmet disaster

needs; and the creation of the Neighborhood

Stabilization Program (NSP) and bank

settlement Hardest Hit area foreclosure risk

scores PD&R also maintains and analyzes

numerous sources of mortgage market

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data including monthly data from the

economists develop a factual framework based

Department of the Treasury on the Home

on information available, as of a particular

Affordable Modification Program (HAMP),

date, from both local and national sources

mortgage servicing data licensed from private

Each analysis takes into consideration changes

vendors (Black Knight Financial, CoreLogic,

in the economic, demographic, and housing

and others), and maintains expertise in the

inventory characteristics of a specific housing

use of HUD’s administrative data on FHA

market area during three periods: from 1990

home mortgage insurance programs PD&R

to 2000, from 2000 to the as-of date of the

chairs the Data Steward Advisory Group

analysis, and from the as-of date to a three-

at HUD that coordinates efforts across all

year forecast date The reports present counts

of HUD’s systems to improve data quality

and estimates of employment, population,

PD&R is also leading the development

households, and housing inventory Recent

of master data management at HUD to

reports include: Grand Junction, Colorado,

improve data quality and reporting across

Lexington, Kentucky, Montgomery, Alabama,

multiple programs

and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

HOUSING SCORECARD

OTHER HOUSING

MARKET SURVEYS

PD&R obtains data from many sources to

compile the monthly Housing Scorecard

HUD provides funding, oversight, and

which documents progress toward the

leadership for three important surveys

Administration’s efforts to stabilize the

of the housing market The Survey of

housing market and help American

Construction, a joint effort between HUD

homeowners recover from the Great

and the US Census Bureau, provides

Recession In addition to the monthly

critical information about new home sales,

national housing scorecard, PD&R prepares

including New Residential Sales, a Principal

a regional scorecard addendum on a quarterly

Federal Economic Indicator The statutorily

basis for selected metropolitan area markets

mandated Manufactured Homes Survey

Each addendum details the unique way that

provides estimates of manufactured home

the Great Recession has affected each of these

sales and inventory Finally, the Survey

housing markets and how communities have

of Market Absorption of Apartments is a

incorporated the Administration’s housing

survey of buildings with five or more units

and neighborhood aid programs into local

The survey provides estimates of rent level

strategies to stabilize their housing markets

and market uptake for apartments and sale

and to advance the recovery

price and market uptake for condominiums

and cooperatives

HOUSING MARKET REPORTS

PD&R’s Field Economist Organization

prepared more than 80 Comprehensive

Housing Market Analysis Reports for selected

metropolitan housing market areas during

FY 2013–2014 These reports, located on

PD&R’s Web site HUDUserorg, assist

and guide HUD in its operations and have

proven to be useful to builders, mortgagees,

and others concerned with local housing

condition trends For each analysis, field

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DATA SET REFERENCE GUIDE

Community/

Housing Housing

Demo-

Home-

Fair

Economic Quality

Disabilities

Neighborhood

Rural

Markets

Finance

graphics

lessness

Housing

Conditions

of Life

Conditions

50th Percentile Rent Estimates

High

Low

American Housing Survey

High

High

Medium

Low

Low

Medium

Low

Annual Adjustment Factors

High

Low

CINCH

High

Low

Low

Medium

Consolidated Planning

Medium

High

High

Medium

Medium

Low

Fair Market Rents

High

Low

Geospatial Data Resources

Medium

Medium

Low

High

High

Low

Low

Low

Low

Government Sponsored

Enterprise Data

High

Medium

Housing Affordability Data System

High

Medium

Low

Low

Income Limits

High

Low

Low-Income Housing Tax Credit

Medium

Medium

Manufactured Home and

Subprime Lender List

High

Low

Metropolitan Area Look-Up

Low

Low

Low

Low

Low

Low

Metropolitan Area Quarterly

Residential and Business

Medium

Low

Low

Vacancy Report

Moving To Opportunity (MTO)

Medium

High

Medium

Low

High

Low

High

Multifamily Tax Subsidy

Income Limits

Medium

Medium

Low

National Estimates of Housing

Market Discrimination Against

High

Low

Medium

Low

High

Low

Racial and Ethnic Minorities

Neighborhood Stabilization Data

High

Medium

Medium

PHA Homelessness Preferences:

Web Census Survey Data

High

Physical Inspection Scores

Medium

Low

Medium

Picture of Subsidized Households

High

Low

High

Medium

Low

Property Owners and

Managers Survey

Medium

High

Public Use Microdata Sample

High

Low

High

Medium

Low

Qualified Census Tracts and

Difficult Development Areas

Medium

Medium

Medium

Renewal Funding Inflation Factors

High

Low

Residential Finance Survey

High

Special Tabulations of Households

Low

Medium

Medium

Medium

Low

State of the Cities Data Systems

Medium

High

Medium

Medium

Low

USPS Vacancies Data

Medium

Low

Medium

Low

Medium

USPS Zip Code Crosswalk Files

Low

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RESEARCH AND

DEMONSTRATIONS

PD&R research and demonstrations identified and prioritized in the Research align with HUD’s strategic goals

Roadmap were generated through a

and cover a range of topics including:

multifaceted, inclusive planning process that

housing and young children, family self-

included extensive stakeholder engagement

sufficiency, green and energy retrofits,

Unlike some strategic plans, the Research

housing discrimination, mobility, rental

Roadmap doesn’t just sit on the shelf This

housing, health, sustainable construction,

strategy truly serves as a guiding document

and homelessness This work is directed by

for PD&R and HUD in determining the

PD&R’s strategic research plan known at

projects to move forward with as the budget

the Research Roadmap Much of PD&R’s

priorities are established each year

research and demonstration efforts take

from three to 10 years from the time they

Although work continues to be generated

are initiated until final results are released;

from the Research Roadmap, PD&R has

however, whenever possible, interim data,

already begun the early planning for the next

findings and reports are made available

edition of the strategy Like its predecessor,

The following outlines PD&R’s process

the updated Research Roadmap will engage

for selecting projects, the status of current

a range of partners in determining the

work, and introduces some new vehicles for

future direction of PD&R’s research PD&R

expanding our portfolio of work

expects to announce that engagement

strategy and a timeline for developing the

RESEARCH ROADMAP

next Research Roadmap sometime in 2015

Throughout its history PD&R has sought

to be forward looking and fully engaged

PROJECTS RECENTLY COMPLETED

AND CURRENTLY UNDERWAY

with practitioners and researchers in the

field of housing and urban development

PD&R’s recently completed projects

However, a 2008 report from the National

and efforts currently underway are

Research Council of the National Academy

highlighted below, organized into seven

of Sciences found that in an era of limited

topical categories: children and families,

financial and human resources, PD&R’s

expanding housing opportunity, health

research-agenda setting process had become

and environment, housing discrimination,

“too insular” with “too much of a short term

informing HUD programs, homelessness,

focus” As a result, the report concluded,

place-based initiatives, and veterans A

PD&R was not “achieving its potential

complete list of projects in the pipeline and

to contribute in a significant way to the

interim reports for long-term efforts can be

ongoing internal and external discourses

found on HUDUserorg

over the evolution of HUD programs and

broader urban development policy”

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

FAMILY SELF-SUFFICIENCY PROGRAM

As a result of this feedback, PD&R

DEMONSTRATION. The Family Self-

launched an effort that resulted in the

Sufficiency (FSS) program serves voucher

Research Roadmap, a strategic, five-year

holders and residents of public housing,

plan that details priority research for HUD

and aims to increase a family’s income and

for FY 2014 through FY 2018 The projects

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savings Case managers work with families to

An initial interim report released in March

connect them with services and employment

2013 describes the study’s design and

opportunities while any increased rent they

implementation and provides preliminary

pay due to an increase in earned income

information about the extent to which families

accumulates in an escrow account The

have enrolled in the assigned interventions

intent of the FSS program demonstration is

The key findings in the interim report relate

to test the impact of these job supports and

to families’ enrollment in the different

the escrow account compared to a randomly

interventions being studied—both the barriers

assigned control group set of households

presented by stringent eligibility criteria of

not offered the supports or escrow account

programs that often screen households out of

This demonstration is a rigorous evaluation

assistance, and the choices made by households

of program impacts on such measures of

to reject the intervention offered A subsequent

economic independence as getting a first job;

report, expected in late 2014, will document

getting a better paying job; self-employment

the impacts of the various interventions and

or small-business ownership; no longer

their relative costs at the 18-month follow-up

needing benefits provided under one or

period, and a final report in late 2016 will

more welfare programs; obtaining additional

document the impacts of the four interventions

education, whether in the form of a high

at the 36-month follow-up period

school diploma, higher education degree, or

vocational training; buying a home; buying

a car; or setting up savings accounts Eighteen

PHAs have agreed to participate in the study

FAMILY OPTIONS STUDY. The Family

Options Study is a multisite random

assignment demonstration designed to study

the impact of various housing and services

interventions on homeless families Primary

outcomes of interest include: housing stability,

family preservation, child well-being, adult

well-being, and self-sufficiency Between

September 2010 and January 2012, more

than 2,200 homeless families across 12

communities enrolled into the study and

were randomly assigned to one of three

interventions (subsidy only, project-based

transitional housing, community-based rapid

HOUSING FOR YOUTH AGING OUT OF

re-housing) or usual care (typically, ongoing

FOSTER CARE. The purpose of HUD’s study

stays at emergency shelters) Families are

of Housing for Youth Aging Out of Foster

being tracked for three years, and they were

Care was to: (1) explore and document the

extensively interviewed at random assignment

range of housing settings available to youth

and at 18 months after random assignment

who age out of foster care; (2) conduct an

(completed in September 2013 with an

in-depth review of communities who are

81 percent response rate) They will be

utilizing Family Unification Program (FUP)

interviewed again at 36 months after random

vouchers to serve youth aging out of foster

assignment (interviews began in March 2014

care; (3) identify opportunities to mitigate

and will conclude in March 2015)

the risk of homelessness for youth as they

transition out of the foster care system; and

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(4) suggest directions for future research

EXPANDING HOUSING

and evaluation efforts related to housing

OPPORTUNITY

for youth aging out of foster care FUP is

the only federal program that explicitly

ASSESSMENT OF NATIVE AMERICAN,

provides housing assistance for youth aging

ALASKA NATIVE, AND NATIVE HAWAIIAN

out of foster care, but until this time, little

HOUSING NEEDS. Congress mandated

was known about the extent to which

a study of the housing needs of Native

communities are utilizing FUP to serve

Americans because these needs are generally

youth, and the challenges and benefits

known to be severe, but the extent of the

to doing so

problems is not well quantified In addition

to collecting new data, this Congressionally

The findings document the current

mandated study will use US Census

inadequacy of housing supports for

information describing the needs of the

youth aging out of foster care, which

Native American, Alaska Native, and Native

is compounded by a lack of evidence

Hawaiian populations To provide a broader

regarding what kinds of housing settings

context for understanding Native American,

are most appropriate for this population

Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian housing

The report concludes on an optimistic note,

needs, the study will also consider their

however, by charting a course to enhance

socioeconomic situations Because passage

the understanding of the housing needs

of the Native American Housing Assistance

of youth who have aged out of foster care

and Self-Determination Act (NAHASDA)

and to identify housing models that are

in 1996 fundamentally changed the way

most effective for preventing and ending

federal funding is delivered to tribal people,

homelessness among this population

issues surrounding the changes NAHASDA

has introduced also form a key part of the

The White House, numerous

study The study’s components will include a

government agencies, and other

deep analysis of census data, a representative

public and nonprofit sector

national household survey about housing

partners celebrated National

conditions, a qualitative lender survey,

Foster Care Month in May 2014.

and case studies about issues for American

As part of the month-long event,

Indians living in urban areas

PD&R released the Housing for

Youth Aging Out of Foster Care

PRE-PURCHASE HOMEOWNERSHIP

report, in coordination with U.S.

COUNSELING DEMONSTRATION AND

Department of Health and Human

Services (HHS). PD&R’s report

IMPACT EVALUATION. This study is designed

brought the necessary housing

to measure the impact of pre-purchase

lens to the wider discussion and

homeownership counseling on a range of

shed light on the fact that each

outcomes (mortgage preparedness, homebuyer

year, many of the approximately

outcomes, and loan performance) for low-,

25,000 young people who “age

moderate-, and middle-income (LMMI)

out” of the foster care system in

first-time homebuyers Some 6,000 LMMI

the U.S., face significant risks of

potential first-time homebuyers from 28

becoming homeless.

metro areas will be recruited for random

assignment either to a control group or to

one of two modes of pre-purchase counseling

(remote or in-person) Participants in the

study will be tracked over three to four

years to determine the extent to which

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their outcomes might be influenced by the

This initiative included several activities

counseling intervention received The project

Participating tribes received technical

team and three national lenders were tasked

assistance to support their adoption of

to design and implement the demonstration

sustainable construction practices in

recruitment process, design the study

residential construction or rehabilitation

database, and recruit counseling agencies in

projects HUD also worked with other

the 28 metropolitan areas to participate The

federal agencies and key stakeholders to

20-month enrollment period began in January

identify and overcome barriers to the

2014 and is expected to end in October 2015

adoption of sustainable construction

practices in Indian country This case report,

HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT

along with Case Studies 2013, are posted

on the Sustainable Construction in Indian

GREEN AND ENERGY RETROFIT

Country portal site on HUDUserorg

ASSESSMENT. The American Recovery and

Reinvestment Act of 2009 appropriated $35

SUPPORT AND SERVICES AT HOME (SASH)

billion for HUD to distribute to public housing

EVALUATION. Support and Services at Home

agencies and $235 million for privately owned,

(SASH) coordinates services to support

multifamily assisted housing to perform green

aging in place and health care services in

and energy retrofits The expected benefits

HUD housing The evaluation of SASH is

of these funds were to enhance the quality,

supported by HUD through an interagency

longevity, and energy efficiency of HUD’s

agreement with Department of Health and

existing housing stock, and to assist in the

Human Services Assistant Secretary for

creation and preservation of jobs

Planning and Evaluation (HHS/ASPE) and

the Administration on Aging The study will

The Green and Energy Retrofit Assessment

measure the effectiveness of coordinating

(GERA) evaluation will span four years

health and supportive services of older adults

and will evaluate the short- and long-term

in affordable housing in improving quality

performance of the energy investments The

of life, health, and functional status; examine

evaluation will consist of four broad efforts:

the differences in health care and housing

(1) developing an energy savings model,

costs for seniors who receive coordinated

(2) validating the model, (3) updating the

services in an affordable housing setting;

model, and (4) reporting the findings The

and address how the package of housing

resulting report will include an analysis of

and health care services differ in a service-

the cost, implementation, and energy savings

enriched setting

associated with the completed retrofits The

final report is expected in late 2015

Specifically, the evaluation will compare

SASH participants with non-SASH

NATIVE AMERICAN SUSTAINABLE

participants in Vermont and with a

BUILDING PRACTICES DEMONSTRATION.

comparison group of older adults in

PD&R, in partnership with the Office

publicly subsidized congregate housing in

of Native American Programs, launched

New York state The study will compare

this effort in FY 2011 in response to

characteristics of housing properties

a Congressional mandate to support

that participate in SASH and do not

sustainable construction in Native American

and provide a comprehensive statistical

communities By building sustainable

comparison between SASH participants,

housing, tribes provide their members with

nonparticipants, and comparison

healthier, more comfortable, and more

beneficiaries Using a comparison group

resource-efficient homes

of Medicare beneficiaries, the study will

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examine the impact of SASH participation

of same-sex couples than results in

on acute care utilization, Medicare

jurisdictions without such protections

expenditures, transfers to nursing homes,

This study provides an important initial

and adverse medical events The study’s first

observation of discrimination based on sexual

annual report is expected in late 2014

orientation at the threshold stage of the

rental transaction and is a point of departure

HOUSING DISCRIMINATION

for future research on housing discrimination

against same-sex couples

AN ESTIMATE OF HOUSING

DISCRIMINATION AGAINST SAME-SEX

COUPLES. This is the first large-scale, paired-

testing study to assess housing discrimination

against same-sex couples in metropolitan

rental markets via advertisements on the

Internet The research is based on 6,833

e-mail correspondence tests conducted

in 50 metropolitan markets across the

United States from June through October

2011 For each correspondence test, two

e-mails were sent to the housing provider,

each inquiring about the availability of the

unit advertised on the Internet The only

difference between the two e-mails was the

sexual orientation of the couple making the

inquiry Two sets of correspondence tests

were conducted, one assessing the treatment

of gay male couples relative to heterosexual

HOUSING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST

couples and one assessing the treatment

RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES 2012. This

of lesbian couples relative to heterosexual

study was a rigorous national study using in-

couples This methodology provides the first

person paired testing to estimate discrimination

direct evidence of discriminatory treatment

against racial and ethnic minorities in rental

of same-sex couples compared with the

and sales housing markets in metropolitan

treatment of heterosexual couples when

communities across the United States This

searching for rental housing advertised on the

project is the fourth in a series of national

Internet in the United States

studies that PD&R has done roughly once

every decade to measure the extent of racial

The study finds that same-sex couples

and ethnic housing discrimination, assess the

experience less favorable treatment than

forms it takes to assist enforcement activities,

heterosexual couples in the online rental

and indicate progress as reflected in declining

housing market The primary form of

overall rates of housing market discrimination

adverse treatment is that same-sex couples

This series of national studies has provided

receive significantly fewer responses to

a standard for local testing and enforcement

e-mail inquiries about advertised units

activities and stimulated public awareness of the

than heterosexual couples Study results in

issues involved

jurisdictions with state-level protections

against housing discrimination on the

The study found that when well-qualified

basis of sexual orientation unexpectedly

minority home seekers contact housing

show slightly more adverse treatment

providers to inquire about recently advertised

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housing units, they generally are just as

PHA staff to meet program requirements, to

likely as equally qualified white homeseekers

assist voucher holders in finding and renting

to get an appointment and learn about at

suitable housing in a timely way, and to ensure

least one available housing unit However,

that a broad range of affordable rental housing

when differences in treatment occur, white

throughout the community is available to

homeseekers are more likely to be favored

voucher families The study will use these

than minorities Most important, minority

data to model the total administrative cost

homeseekers are told about and shown fewer

per voucher for each PHA in the study, as

homes and apartments than whites

well as costs for the major tasks involved in

voucher administration at different types

NATIONAL PHYSICAL DISABILITIES

of PHAs operating in different labor and

DISCRIMINATION STUDY. This report

housing markets and serving different client

will be the first nationally representative

populations These cost models will then

study of disparate treatment of persons in

be used to develop a new administrative fee

wheelchairs or with hearing loss in the rental

formula that is based on the actual costs of

housing market, relative to equally qualified

operating the voucher program and adjusts for

homeseekers not suffering those disabilities

market and other local factors known to affect

As with the racial and ethnic discrimination

PHA costs

study, the person with the disability will be

paired with an otherwise equivalent tester

Ultimately, the findings of the study

who does not have the disability as both

will be used to inform the development

inquire about the same unit A final report is

of a new formula for allocating HCVP

expected in by early 2015

administrative fees A final report is

expected in November 2014

“I find PD&R’s reports to be

well-written, thorough, and

RENT REFORM DEMONSTRATION. The

organized. They are my go-to

Rent Reform Demonstration will test an

source for updated information

alternative to the current HUD-assisted rent

on housing in the U.S.”

structure using a randomized controlled

–Tama Leventhal

trial to assess its effect on the income and

Associate Professor

earnings of the residents that rely on housing

Tufts University

vouchers, especially on income and earnings

Four Moving to Work (MTW) PHAs will

INFORMING HUD PROGRAMS

be participating: DC Housing Authority

(DCHA), Lexington Housing Authority

HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER PROGRAM

(LHA), Louisville Metropolitan Housing

(HCVP) ADMINISTRATIVE FEE STUDY. The

Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCVP)

Authority (LMHA), and San Antonio

Administrative Fee Study is designed to

Housing Authority (SAHA) The alternative

evaluate the amount of funding needed to

rent intervention will change the percentage of

administer a high-performing, efficient HCVP

income paid for rent, the utilities allowance,

based on direct measurement of the work

the frequency of income recertification, and

actually performed by voucher administrators

the minimum rent New policies on hardship

and a detailed collection of overhead and

will be in force Rent reform may affect

nonlabor costs associated with the program

assisted housing residents in terms of the rents

at a sample of 60 high-performing Public

they pay, the amounts they save and earn, and

Housing Authorities (PHAs) The study will

the income stream to the housing agency that

measure and identify the tasks performed by

administers the housing subsidy

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SMALL AREA FAIR MARKET RENT

assistance resources Data were collected

DEMONSTRATION GRANTS. HUD uses

from PHAs throughout 2012 and early

Fair Market Rents (FMRs) primarily to

2013 using two approaches: a Web-based

determine payment standard amounts for the

survey of roughly 4,000 PHAs and follow-

Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCVP)

up telephone discussions with staff at 120

At the direction of former HUD Secretary

PHAs The Web survey achieved an 80

Shaun Donovan, PD&R undertook the task

percent response rate, with 3,210 PHAs

of developing a methodology for creating

submitting data HUD and the research team

FMRs for ZIP Codes within metropolitan

established three categories of effort a PHA

areas Small Area FMRs represent a

may adopt to serve homeless households: (1)

fundamentally different way of operating

the establishment of a general preference for

the HCVP in metropolitan areas by helping

homeless households; (2) the establishment

in the understanding of neighborhood

of a limited preference for homeless

demographics Because they will more

households; or (3) modifications to screening

accurately reflect the cost of rental housing

or changes to other policies or procedures to

in these areas, Small Area FMRs will enable

reduce barriers homeless households may face

voucher tenants access to more units in

in using PHA programs Overall, the survey

neighborhoods of opportunity At the same

revealed that 24 percent of PHAs, controlling

time, and for the same reason, Small Area

53 percent of all assisted housing units, make

FMRs will discourage voucher tenants from

at least one of the three targeted efforts to

locating in neighborhoods of concentrated

serve homeless households The final report

poverty HUD is undertaking an invitational

documents the findings of the full study,

demonstration program with a limited

including: the extent to which PHAs make

number of PHAs to better understand and

efforts to serve households experiencing

solve potential operational issues and to

homelessness, the role of PHAs in broader

collect data on tenant location choices before

community efforts to address homelessness,

determining if the Department will choose

how PHAs identify and address barriers that

to use Small Area FMRs on a nationwide

people experiencing homelessness may face

basis The five participants are: the Town of

when accessing and utilizing PHA resources,

Mamaroneck Housing Authority, New York;

how PHAs partner with community

Housing Authority of the City of Laredo,

organization to serve homeless households,

Texas; Housing Authority of the County

and options for encouraging greater efforts

of Cook, Illinois; Chattanooga Housing

in serving homeless households among

Authority, Tennessee; and the City of Long

PHAs A data set resulting from the

Beach Housing Authority, California For the

Web-based census survey is also available

invitational demonstration program, these

on HUDUserorg for public use

PHAs will operate their voucher programs

using Small Area FMRs from October 1,

HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION STUDY.

2012, through September 30, 2016

When Congress designated $15 billion for

the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-

HOMELESSNESS

Housing Program (HPRP), it paved the way

for the first-ever large-scale implementation

STUDY OF PHAs’ EFFORTS TO SERVE

of homelessness prevention programs The

PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.

Homelessness Prevention Study (HPS) was a

This study was commissioned by PD&R

process study which produced a national-

to provide a baseline understanding of the

level overview of HPRP-funded prevention

efforts made by PHAs to serve homeless

programs and an in-depth look at the

households with mainstream housing

implementation of particular programs The

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report shows that as of September 30, 2011

assistance (12 to 15 months), or both

(two years into the three-year program),

Twenty-three grants were awarded, and all

HPRP had assisted 909,192 people in

grantees participated in both a process and an

359,192 households by providing prevention

outcomes evaluation The process evaluation

services Of clients who both entered and

focuses on describing the rapid re-housing

exited an HPRP prevention program before

programs established by each grantee,

September 30, 2011, 61 percent were judged

including the target population, the housing/

stably housed when they left the program

service package offered, and the challenges

Seventy-six percent of all prevention

faced in establishing the program In

clients were in families with children Most

addition to the process study, the research

prevention clients received both financial

team tracked a cohort of 500 households

assistance and housing stabilization

served through the demonstration program,

and relocation services and most clients

interviewing each household 12 months

participated for less than 180 days Providers

following the end of the household’s rapid re-

struggled to identify households who truly

housing assistance This study has concluded

needed prevention assistance but would also

and the process study findings and data from

be well-served by short-term assistance and

the outcomes evaluation will be available in

screened out households deemed too needy

late 2014

to succeed with HPRP prevention assistance

Through implementing HPRP, communities

PLACE-BASED INITIATIVES

built infrastructure for future homelessness

CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS REPORTS. The

prevention efforts The HPS report

Choice Neighborhoods initiative supports

concludes with proposals for future research

comprehensive local strategies to transform

on homelessness prevention and includes

struggling neighborhoods with distressed

several appendices describing challenges to

public or HUD-assisted housing into

be addressed in implementing homelessness

neighborhoods of choice-viable, mixed-

prevention The HPS report will be available

income neighborhoods where families

on HUDUserorg in late 2014

have access to employment opportunities,

well-functioning services, good-quality

EVALUATION OF THE RAPID

public schools and education programs,

RE-HOUSING FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES

and a variety of viable transportation

DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. HUD’s FY

options PD&R’s long-term study of Choice

2008 appropriation included a $25 million

Neighborhoods is based on the first round of

to fund the Rapid Re-housing for Homeless

implementation grantees (Boston, Chicago,

Families demonstration program, including

New Orleans, San Francisco, and Seattle)

$15 million in funding for a mandatory

An initial interim report titled Developing

evaluation of the demonstration At the time

Choice Neighborhoods: An Early Look at

of the launch of the demonstration program,

Implementation in Five Sites was published

the rapid re-housing model was based on the

in September 2013 A more in depth study,

notion that there is a band of families with

including surveys of residents and additional

minimal barriers to housing that could be

stakeholder interviews, is currently under

stabilized with a limited amount of housing

review and expected to be published in

assistance and services Grantees were invited

January 2015 In addition, a separate

to develop their own assessment tool that

research team produced a report entitled

would be used to identify eligible families,

Spatial Analysis of Choice Neighborhoods

as well as match them to the appropriate

Initiative Planning Grant Applicants and

intervention, and to offer short-term

Neighborhoods, which was published in

assistance (three to six months), long-term

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June 2014 That report summarizes the

VETERANS

Choice Planning Grant program and

provides aggregate profiles for Planning

HUD-VASH EXIT STUDY. HUD and the US

Grant applicant neighborhoods Research

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are

on Choice Neighborhoods is a long-term

collaborating to study program exits from

priority of PD&R; follow-up research is

the HUD-VA Supportive Housing (HUD-

expected to be pursued between 2017

VASH) program The multisite study will

and 2020

inform program practices by identifying

barriers for accessing housing, frequent causes

of participant exits, housing destinations of

veterans who exit the program, practices that

lead to the long-term housing stabilization

and well-being of participants, and patterns

of exit that could improve program efforts to

prevent future exits In addition to collecting

veteran-level data and conducting one-

on-one interviews, the study will include

program-level interviews with PHAs and

HUD-VASH case management teams at five

sites (Philadelphia, Bedford, Houston, Palo

Alto, and Los Angeles) to learn more about

local characteristics that may impact veteran

participation HUD and VA are currently

developing interview schedules

VETERANS HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION

RURAL INNOVATION FUND (RIF)

DEMONSTRATION (VHPD) EVALUATION.

EVALUATION. RIF helps to create sustainable

Preventing veteran homelessness is a federal

communities by addressing “concentrated

priority: Congress set aside $10 million in

rural housing distress” and “community

HUD’s FY 2009 budget test effective strategies

poverty” It supports efforts similar to its

for preventing veteran homelessness, and the

predecessor, the Rural Housing and Economic

2010 Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and

Development (RHED) program, but on a

End Homelessness set a goal of “prevent[ing]

larger scale The evaluation is to determine

and end[ing] homelessness among Veterans

if the higher levels of resources, in the form

in 5 years” In response, in 2011, HUD

of grant amounts and leverage requirements

collaborated with VA and the Department

provided under RIF relative to RHED,

of Labor to design VHPD, a three-year pilot

have allowed grantee organizations to more

across five sites (Utica, New York, Tampa Bay,

effectively leverage the funding provided, work

Florida, Tacoma, Washington, San Diego,

with a larger variety of additional funders with

California, and Austin, Texas) to provide

greater program impact, and sustain a higher

homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing

level of operations over the long term The

to veterans, especially ones from post-9/11

report is expected in 2015

conflicts The evaluation investigates the

efficacy of homelessness prevention and

rapid re-housing services provided A VHPD

Evaluation Interim Report is now available

and a final report is expected in 2015

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NEW RESEARCH VEHICLES

• Homeownership and housing finance

In addition to research and demonstrations

Examples of areas of interest include, but

conducted with in-house resources or through

are not limited to: foreclosures, foreclosure

competitive grants and contracts, PD&R

alternatives, mortgage modification

has added a number of new research vehicles

protocols, and updating federal

that allow for greater flexibility in conducting

support structures for single-family and

the work and help to expand the universe

multifamily housing finance systems

of partners PD&R collaborates with These

• Affordable rental housing HUD

efforts—Research Partnerships, Small Grants,

is interested in research that improves

and the Multidisciplinary Research Team—are

the efficiency and effectiveness of

highlighted below

housing programs

• Housing as a platform for improving

RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS

quality of life HUD is interested

The Consolidated and Further Continuing

in how HUD-provided housing

Appropriations Act, 2012, authorizes PD&R

assistance can be used to: (1) improve

to enter into noncompetitive cooperative

educational outcomes and early learning

agreements for projects that are aligned

and development, (2) improve health

with PD&R’s research priorities and where

outcomes, (3) increase economic security

HUD can gain value by having substantial

and self-sufficiency, and (4) improve

involvement in the research activity Using

housing stability through supportive

this authority, PD&R created the Research

services for vulnerable populations

Partnerships initiative in recognition that

• Sustainable and inclusive communities

valuable housing and community development

HUD’s goal of advancing sustainable and

research is often initiated by foundations,

inclusive communities seeks innovative and

research organizations, independent researchers,

transformational evidence-based approaches

or other government agencies

to deal with longstanding and emerging

community development challenges

PD&R accepts unsolicited research proposals

• HUD assets HUD has made, and

on a continuing basis that address current

continues to make, significant investments

research priorities and, in many cases, this

in program demonstrations and in the

research has the potential to address key

production of data sets, that PD&R is

questions about HUD policies and programs

interested in seeing leveraged

The Research Partnerships initiative requires

that a philanthropic entity, other federal

agency, or state or local government agency,

“Research Partnerships, the

or any combination of these partners share at

Small Grant Programs, and

the Multidisciplinary Research

least a 50 percent of the total estimated project

Teams not only expand and

cost Proposals must inform important policy

enhance PD&R’s robust pipeline

and program objectives of HUD that are not

of research, these vehicles also

otherwise being addressed and that focus on

allow our team to collaborate

one of HUD’s research priorities:

with diverse partners to reach a

broader audience.”

– Lynn M. Ross

Deputy Assistant Secretary

for Policy Development

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RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS:

COMPLETED AND IN-PROGRESS EFFORTS

TITLE

PARTNER

STATUS

High Cost Lending in Rural

Middlebury College, US

America and the Great

Department of Agriculture

Completed January 2014

Recession

Economic Research Service

Mining MTO: Housing

Assistance Leavers and

Urban Institute

Completed February 2014

Vulnerable Female Youth

The Housing Opportunity and

Services Together (HOST)

Urban Institute

Completed June 2014

Demonstration

Aging in Place: Managing the

Use of Reverse Mortgages to

The Ohio State University

In Progress

Enable Housing Stability

Bringing Life Course Home:

Improving Health Through

Boston Medical Center,

Housing Stability and Support Boston University

In Progress

Brokering the Geography of

Opportunity: How Landlords

Affect Access to Housing and

Johns Hopkins University,

Neighborhood Quality Among Harvard University

In Progress

HUD Assisted Renters

Chicago Regional Housing

Choice Initiative Evaluation

RAND Corporation

In Progress

How Housing Affects Young

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg

Children

School of Public Health

In Progress

The Impact of Children’s

Housing on Their Long-Term

Economic Outcomes: Linking

Intergenerational Labor

University of Maryland,

Market Outcomes, Residential Census Bureau, Harvard

In Progress

Mobility, and Neighborhood

University

Quality for Households

Receiving Housing Assistance

New York City Center for

Economic Opportunity Social

Jobs-Plus Cost Study

Innovation Fund (CEO SIF), In Progress

Mayor’s Fund to Advance New

York City

Relationship Between Receipt

of Housing Assistance and

Washington State Department

Social Health

of Social and Health Services

In Progress

Rethinking FSS: A Plan for

Building More Evidence on

What Works to Improve

Employment Outcomes

and Economic Security

MRDC

In Progress

for Recipients of Section 8

Housing Choice Vouchers—

Resubmission

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RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS:

COMPLETED AND IN-PROGRESS EFFORTS (CONT.)

TITLE

PARTNER

STATUS

Using Parcel and Household

Data to Evaluate the Low-

Income Housing Tax Credit

and Housing Choice Voucher University of Florida Shimberg

Programs: Transportation,

Center for Housing Studies

In Progress

Crime, Education and

Tenant Choice

Coming Home: An

Evaluation of NYCHA’s

Vera Institute for Justice

In Progress

Family Reentry Pilot

Moving to Opportunity:

Platform to Improve Health

Johns Hopkins University

In Progress

SMALL GRANTS PROGRAMS

transit systems, (3) reduce the regulatory

barriers to sustainable development and

PD&R has encouraged academic research in

strengthen land use planning and urban

special topics of interest to the Department

design standards, (4) advance economic

through two small grant programs:

opportunities that create jobs and promote

diverse communities, and (5) address the

FAMILY OPTIONS STUDY DEMONSTRATION

health of the environment by reducing

SMALL GRANT PROGRAM HUD made

carbon emissions and conserving energy

four small grant awards to complement

the Family Options Study, a HUD-

The four grantees for FY 2013 were:

funded, 12-site national study that will

be the largest study of homelessness yet

• University of Utah at Salt Lake City for

to use an experimental design The grants

assessing the impact of streetcars;

include studies of (1) barriers to preschool

• University of Texas at Austin for research

enrollment among homeless families; (2)

on creating green and inclusive corridors;

involvement of homeless families in county-

level public services (public assistance,

• Bright Power, LLC, for evaluation energy

child protective services, mental health,

benchmarking; and

and substance abuse); and (3) the impact of

• State University of New York at Buffalo for

housing interventions on school performance

development of an analytic tool for siting

of children in homeless families

subsidized housing neighborhoods that

offer a variety of housing options, ranging

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES RESEARCH

from subsidized rental property to market

GRANT PROGRAM. The Sustainable

rate, owner-occupied units

Communities Research Grant Program

supports efforts by the research community

SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION IN INDIAN

to build on existing evidence-based

COUNTRY SMALL GRANTS In conjunction

studies to evaluate new and existing

with the Native American Sustainable Building

tools and strategies that promote and

Practices Demonstration, PD&R awarded

implement more effective policies that

small grants to analyze and assist tribes in the

(1) preserve housing affordability, (2)

solution of problems in building efficient and

improve accessibility through effective

affordable housing on the reservation:

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• University of Colorado, for a best practice

• Multifamily Housing Preservation

manual for compressed earth block

Study—Study of multifamily housing

construction based on work with the Crow

preservation, rates of prepayment and

Tribe of Montana;

opting out of HUD assistance contracts

• Aleutian Housing Authority, to

using administrative data

demonstrate the viability of the stabilized

• LIHTC Qualified Allocation Plans

rammed earth construction technique; and

Review—Analysis of state Qualified

• University of Colorado, for an applied

Allocation Plans for the Low Income

research laboratory on the Pine Ridge

Housing Tax Credit program to understand

reservation to educate students in the

policies and community effects

design and construction of sustainable,

• Analyzing Housing Quality Standards in

affordable, culturally inclusive and

the AHS—Analysis of housing quality

regionally appropriate housing

in public and assisted housing using

HUD tenant identifiers in the American

MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Housing Survey

RESEARCH TEAM

• Housing Choice Voucher Success Rate

Study—Analysis of the rate of successful

The Multidisciplinary Research Team

lease-up by tenants in the Housing Choice

(MDRT) is a new contract initiated in 2014

Voucher program

to manage a team of qualified researchers to

expand the ability of PD&R to obtain high-

quality, short-turnaround research to help

support HUD’s priority policies and goals

The MDRT is unique in that the research

produced is intended to be produced in a

timelier manner, as opposed to PD&R’s

larger research contracts that typically have

longer time horizons for completion

Current projects underway through

MDRT include:

• Picture of Disability and Designated

Housing—Analysis of need and availability

of accessible housing for persons with

disabilities that use HUD program data

and American Community Survey data

• Accessibility of America’s Housing Stock—

Analysis of accessibility and disability

using core data and special modules of the

American Housing Survey

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PD&R’S OUTREACH

AND DISSEMINATION

PD&R continues to innovate the way

Externally, PD&R meets its outreach and

it disseminates research and reaches

dissemination goals through HUD USER,

out to its stakeholders, using cutting edge

PDR Mobile and social media, convenings,

communication vehicles and technology

periodicals, and awards

Over the past two years, PD&R has greatly

expanded outreach and dissemination efforts

HUD USER

with eye towards achieving four goals: (1)

At the core of PD&R’s dissemination

sharing information, research findings, and best

work is HUDUserorg through which all practices; (2) translating housing policy and

of PD&R’s research and communication

research to improve practice; (3) increasing the

flow HUDUserorg is updated regularly availability of high quality research on issues

with the latest publication and data releases

of housing and community developments;

During FY 2013–2014 the Web pages

(4) ensuring stakeholders have quick access to

that disseminate the US Housing Market

information on a variety of platforms

Conditions and the American Housing

Survey were substantially redesigned

Internally, one of the ways PD&R meets

In addition, the underlying content

these goals is by operating the HUD Library

management system of Web site was

The HUD Library facilitates research and

upgraded and responsive Web design was

analysis for the entire Department It assists

implemented to enable a consistent user

members of HUD staff in developing

viewing experience from any device type

thorough, well-informed policies that

improve the quality of life for every

American The HUD Library provides access

to electronic and print research materials to

help employees further the mission of HUD

“In the Library, we love

connecting employees to

information, whether it is a piece

of HUD trivia for a speechwriter, a

historical data point for reference,

or the most recent research on a

current hot topic. We take pride

in helping HUD employees do

their job better.”

–Tanya Whippie

HUD Librarian

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HUD USER Usage: FY 2013–2014

FY 2013 (ACTUAL)

FY 2014 (ESTIMATE*)

Number of Downloads

145 million

169 million

Average Downloads per Month

1,212,819

1,410,030

Number of Visits per Month

625,794

913,417

Orders Processed

1,133

1,025

Publications Disseminated

77,218

87,000

Note: Estimate based on nine months of data.

PD&R MOBILE AND SOCIAL MEDIA

In addition to the mobile apps, PD&R also

PD&R released two new mobile applications

expanded its social media presence over the

(apps) during FY 2013–2014 The two new

past two years PD&R has a growing presence

apps join the existing app for The Edge to form

on Facebook and Twitter During PD&R

PD&R Mobile The US Housing Market

events such as the Quarterly Updates, live

Conditions (USHMC) app is an easy-to-use

conversation occurs via Twitter and those

tool that displays current national housing

viewing the webcast are encouraged to submit

data and the latest trends in the housing

questions using Twitter or e-mail

market The app contains five elements:

“The work of PD&R is essential

quarterly key indicators, supply data charts,

for urban and housing policy

demand data charts, finance and investment

researchers. HUDuser.org is the

data charts, and ownership and vacancy data

first place I look for data and

charts The quarterly key indicators depict

summaries of earlier research

increases and decreases in various national

whenever I start a new project.

housing statistics such as new homes for

My research is of a higher quality

sale, housing permits, and homes under

and more relevant as a result of

construction The four additional categories

their assistance.”

contain interactive charts with information

–Mike Eriksen

compiled from the national housing market

Assistant Professor of Real Estate

data The second new app is the PD&R Fair

Texas Tech University

Market Rents/Income Limits (FMR/IL) app

This map-based app allows users to search

FMRs and income limits by current location

or by metropolitan area, county, ZIP Code

and/or address

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HUD USER Facebook Likes by Quarter*

3,000

2,627

2,500

2,357

2,000

1,658

1,500

1,043

1,000

850

618

649

709

500

0

FY 2013

FY 2013

FY 2013

FY 2013

FY 2014

FY 2014

FY 2014

Current

Quarter 1

Quarter 2

Quarter 3

Quarter 4

Quarter 1

Quarter 2

Quarter 3

*Tallied on the last day of the last month of each quarter. Current is as of August 2014.

HUD USER Twitter Followers for 2013 and 2014

4,500

4,100

4,000

3,500

3,199

3,000

2,500

2,000

1,500

1,000

500

0

August 2013

August 2014

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PD&R also coordinates with housing,

Expert Convenings A new policy translation

planning, and community development

tool introduced in FY 2013 is the Expert

bloggers to leverage content from

Convening contract This contract gives

HUDUserorg on external blogs

PD&R the ability to quickly assemble a group

of experts in an area of particular interest to

CONVENINGS

HUD PD&R assembles up to 14 forums

Convenings are important elements of

(7 per year); the number of experts at each

PD&R’s outreach and dissemination strategy

forum varies depending on HUD’s specific

Not only does PD&R regularly host a number

needs The topics for which HUD may seek

of events, but PD&R is also represented at

expert input include performance metrics,

partner events through staff participation and

current thinking or past experiences that can

exhibiting During FY 2013–2014, PD&R

help improve policy and manage programs

engaged in the following convenings:

more effectively, and ways HUD can increase

its accountability and ensure effective use of

PD&R Quarterly Updates PD&R

public resources HUD produces a written

Quarterly Updates highlight economic and

summary of the results of these forums and

housing market changes and include a focused

the practical advice they generate

panel discussion on current issues in housing

and community development The Quarterly

PD&R has hosted several useful expert

Updates are often held in conjunction with a

convenings in 2014 that focused on

recent issue of Evidence Matters. The events are

FHA loan limits, retail in underserved

attended by a range of HUD staff as well as

communities, HUD’s Location Affordability

external stakeholders To make the events even

Index, and on the different gender outcomes

more accessible, the Quarterly Updates are

revealed in the Moving to Opportunity

webcast live, then archived and made available

study A report on this most recent

for viewing at a later date on HUDUserorg

convening is available on HUDUserorg

The January 2014 Quarterly

Congressman Dan Kildee from the

Update on Aging in Place

5th District of Michigan provides

featured a distinguished

remarks at the April 2014 Quarterly

panel of experts.

Update on vacant properties.

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PD&R HOSTED CONVENINGS FY 2013–2014

EVENT

DATE

LOCATION

PARTNERS

PD&R Quarterly Update:

Boom Town Effects of New December 5, 2012

HUD Headquarters

Oil and Gas Exploration

Netherlands

MOU Signing with

Minister of

The Netherlands

March 4, 2013

HUD Headquarters Infrastructure and

the Environment

PD&R Quarterly Update:

Dynamics of Mixed-Income March 20, 2013

HUD Headquarters

Communities

German Marshall

Dialogues for Change

Fund, German

(D4C) Workshop with US April 21–24, 2013

Leipzig, Germany

Federal Ministry

and German City Planners

of Transport,

Building and Urban

Development

Sustainable Construction in

Indian Country

May 2, 2013

Washington, DC

Expert Panel Convening:

Housing Discrimination on

May 6, 2013

HUD Headquarters

the Basis of Mental Disability

Meet the Funder, Know

the Work: Bloomberg

May 6, 2013

HUD Headquarters Bloomberg

Philanthropies

Philanthropies

AHS 2015 Redesign

Planning Conference

May 9, 2013

Washington, DC

CDFI Roundtable for

Hurricane Sandy

May 20, 2013

New York, NY

Rebuilding Task Force

Mixed Income Communities June 10, 2013

Webinar

American Institute

of Architects

PD&R Quarterly Update:

Preserving Affordable

June 28, 2013

HUD Headquarters

Rental Housing

Meet the Funder, Know the

Work: Kauffman Foundation July 1, 2013

HUD Headquarters Kauffman

Foundation

Meet the Funder, Know

the Work: Annie E

August 5, 2013

HUD Headquarters Annie E Casey

Casey Foundation

Foundation

Pay for Success Introduction September 3, 2013

HUD Headquarters White House Office

for Civic Innovation

German Marshall

Fund, German

Dialogues for Change

Federal Ministry for

(D4C) Workshop with US September 11–13,

the Environment,

and German City Planners

2013

Memphis, TN

Nature Conservation,

Building and

Nuclear Safety

Pay for Success Session:

Workforce Innovation Fund September 24, 2013 HUD Headquarters Department of Labor

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PD&R HOSTED CONVENINGS FY 2013–2014 (CONT.)

EVENT

DATE

LOCATION

PARTNERS

Pay for Success Session:

Philanthropic Investment

October 22, 2013

HUD Headquarters Kresge Foundation

and Community Health

Pay for Success Session:

Coalition for

Importance of Evidence and November 5, 2013

HUD Headquarters Evidence-Based

Randomized Control Tests

Policy

Forum on Housing for Youth

US Department

Aging Out of Foster Care

November 11, 2013 Washington, DC

of Health and

Human Services

Evaluating Anchor

University of

Institutions’ Work in Their

November 18, 2013 HUD Headquarters Maryland College

Communities

Park, Democracy

Collaborative

Pay for Success Session:

Discussion on Private

Sector Perspective on

November 19, 2013 HUD Headquarters Goldman Sachs

Social Impact Investing

Study of PHAs’ Efforts to

Serve People Experiencing

Homelessness in the

Housing Choice Voucher

December 13, 2013 HUD Headquarters

and Public Housing

Programs

PD&R Quarterly Update:

Visions for Aging in Place

January 9, 2014

HUD Headquarters

Pay for Success Session: PFS

Department

Initiatives With Second

January 22, 2014

HUD Headquarters

Chance Act

of Justice

Retail in Underserved

February 11–12,

Communities

2014

Washington, DC

Urban Land

Institute

The Atlantic

Washington, DC

Council, University

World Urban Forum

Chicago, IL

of Chicago, Ford

Pre-Session Dialogue Series

March 2014

New York, NY

Foundation,

Philadelphia, PA

University of

Pennsylvania

Partnerships in Innovation:

Meet Low Income

March 6, 2014

HUD Headquarters Low Income

Investment Fund

Investment Fund

Secretary Donovan leads

US Delegation to UN’s

April 8–12, 2014

Medellín, Colombia State Department,

World Urban Forum 7

UN-Habitat

PD&R Quarterly

Update: Vacant and

April 10, 2014

HUD Headquarters

Abandoned Properties

Anchor Institutions:

Historically Black Colleges

Benedict College,

and Universities Leading

April 15, 2014

HUD Headquarters Coppin State

the Way to Community

University

Transformation

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PD&R HOSTED CONVENINGS FY 2013–2014 (CONT.)

EVENT

DATE

LOCATION

PARTNERS

Partnerships in Innovation:

Meet California Endowment April 21, 2014

HUD Headquarters California

Endowment

The Innovation in Affordable

Housing Student Design and May 6, 2014

HUD Headquarters

Planning Competition

Expert Convening: Location May 20, May 22,

Affordability Index API

May 28, 2014

Teleconference

HUD’s Office of

Economic Resilience

Expert Convening:

Loan Limit Policy For

Government-Backed Home May 28, 2014

HUD Headquarters

Mortgage Lending

Convening of PD&R

Assistant Secretaries

June 2, 2014

HUD Headquarters

and Leadership

Expert Convening: Gender,

Neighborhood Context, and June 10, 2014

HUD Headquarters

Youth Development

PD&R Quarterly Update:

Expanding Opportunity

July 17, 2014

HUD Headquarters

Through Fair Housing

Place Matters: Partnerships

Albright College,

Between Institutions of

PA Campus

Higher Education and Their September 12, 2014 Reading, PA

Compact, and

Local Communities

Federal Reserve

Bank of Philadelphia

HBCUs Strengthening

Communities for

September 22–23,

Future Innovation:

2014

Washington, DC

White House

Initiative/HBCUs

WHI/HBCU Conference

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CONFERENCES AT WHICH HUD USER EXHIBITED

IN FY 2013–FY 2014

EVENT

DATE

LOCATION

International City/County Management

Association’s 98th Annual Conference

October 7–10, 2012

Phoenix, AZ

Urban Land Institute 2012 Fall Meeting

and Expo

October 16–19, 2012

Denver, CO

National Association of Housing and

Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO):

NAHRO 2012 National Conference

October 28–30, 2012

Nashville, TN

and Exhibition

Housing Assistance Council 2012 National

Conference and Exhibition

December 5–7, 2012

Washington, DC

Allied Social Science Association (ASSA)

Annual Meeting

January 4–6, 2013

Washington, DC

New Partners for Smart Growth

February 7–9, 2013

Kansas City, MO

National Low Income Housing Coalition’s

2013 Housing Policy Conference

March 18–19, 2013

Washington, DC

ULI Washington 2013 Real Estate T

rends Conference

April 10, 2013

Washington, DC

American Planning Association (APA)

2013 National Planning Conference

April 13–15, 2013

Chicago, IL

Affordable Housing Conference of

Montgomery County Maryland

May 10, 2013

Montgomery County, MD

National Housing Conference:

Solutions 2013

September 16–18, 2013 Atlanta, GA

National Association of Housing and

Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO):

NAHRO 2013 National Conference

October 24–26, 2013

Cleveland, OH

& Exhibition

Urban Land Institute (ULI) 2013 Fall

Meeting and Expo

November 5–8, 2013

Chicago, IL

Allied Social Science Association (ASSA):

ASSA Annual Meeting

January 4–6, 2014

Philadelphia, PA

ULI Washington 2014 Real Estate Trends

Conference

April 3, 2014

Washington, DC

American Planning Association (APA) 2014

National Planning Conference

April 26–29, 2014

Atlanta, GA

National Low Income Housing Coalition

(NLIHC): 2014 Housing Policy Conference

April 28–29, 2014

Washington, DC

Affordable Housing Conference of

Montgomery County

May 2, 2014

Bethesda, MD

National Alliance to End Homelessness

(NAEH) 2014

July 29–30, 2014

Washington, DC

International City/County Management

Association’s 100th Annual Conference

September 14–17, 2014 Charlotte, NC

Bipartisan Policy Center 2014

Housing Summit

September 15–16, 2014 Washington, DC

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PERIODICALS

and best practices in housing and community

PD&R produces several periodicals as part of

development New content is published in

its outreach to a broad audience All of these

The Edge every two weeks In FY 2014, The

periodicals aim to provide evidence around

Edge averaged 46,114 views per month, a 39

policy, although each uses a different medium

percent increase since FY 2012 In October

to target a different constituency

2014, PD&R plans to release a substantial

redesign of The Edge designed to enhance the

The Edge. The Edge, PD&R’s online user experience further

magazine, provides news, a message from

PD&R leadership, and a wide range of

information about housing and community

development issues, regulations, research,

The Edge: Most Viewed Articles, FY 2013–2014

ARTICLE NAME

DATE POSTED

1 Economic Mobility: Measuring the American Dream

7/14/2014

2 Elders and Foster Families Find Common Ground at Bridge

Meadows

6/30/2014

3 Connected Communities: Linking Affordable Housing

and Transportation

7/14/2014

4 A New Partner in PD&R

7/14/2014

5 Complex in Poughkeepsie Provides Housing and Services to

Seniors and Veterans

4/21/2014

6 Green Building in Low-Income Housing Tax Credit

Developments

6/17/2014

7 Tagliareni Plaza Offers Transit Oriented, Mixed-Income Rental

Housing in Bayonne

2/25/2013

8 Charlottesville, Virginia Embraces Housing First to Tackle

Regional Homelessness

7/28/2014

9 The Inextricable Link Between Neighborhoods and Health

11/5/2013

10 Choice Neighborhoods in Action

7/28/2014

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Average Edge Page Views Per Month by Quarter for FY 2013-2014

70,000

60,000

57,496

50,600

50,000

6,7128

47,053

47,162

41,715

41,385

40,579

40,000

30,000

20,000

10,000

0

FY 2013

FY 2013

FY 2013

FY 2013

FY 2014

FY 2014

FY 2014

FY 2014

Quarter 1

Quarter 2

Quarter 3

Quarter 4

Quarter 1

Quarter 2

Quarter 3

Quarter 4

Please note that FY 2014 fourth quarter numbers are based on data for one month.

Evidence Matters Evidence Matters

and its subscriber base has grown to more

is published quarterly and designed to

than 25,000 Evidence Matters is guided

highlight policy-relevant research that

by an advisory committee comprised of

connects policymakers at all levels, as well

representatives from several HUD program

as researchers, advocates, and industry

offices The following issues of Evidence

members, with clear, accessible, and timely

Matters were published during the last

information Since it was first published in

two fiscal years:

2011, Evidence Matters has released 11 issues,

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EVIDENCE MATTERS ISSUES,

Fall 2013: Aging in Place

FY 2013–2014

• Lead: Aging in Place: Facilitating Choice

Fall 2012: Low-Income Homeownership

and Independence

• Research Spotlight: Measuring the Costs

• Lead: Paths to Homeownership for Low-

and Savings of Aging in Place

Income and Minority Households

• In Practice: Community-Centered

• Research Spotlight: Individual

Solutions for Aging at Home

Development Accounts: A Vehicle for

Low-Income Asset Building

and Homeownership

Winter 2014: Vacancy and Reuse

• In Practice: Shared Equity Models Offer

• Lead: Vacant and Abandoned Properties:

Sustainable Homeownership

Turning Liabilities Into Assets

• Research Spotlight: Targeting Strategies for

Spring 2013: Mixed-Income Communities

Neighborhood Development

• Lead: Confronting Concentrated Poverty

• In Practice: Countywide Land Banks

With a Mixed-Income Strategy

Tackle Vacancy and Blight

• Research Spotlight: Mixed-Income

• In Practice: Temporary Urbanism:

Community Dynamics: Five Insights

Alternative Approaches to Vacant Land

from Ethnography

• In Practice: Inclusionary Zoning and

Spring/Summer 2014: Fair Housing

Mixed-Income Communities

and Discrimination

• Lead Article: Expanding Opportunity

Summer 2013: Preserving

through Fair Housing Choice

Affordable Housing

• Research Spotlight: Paired Testing and the

• Lead: Preserving Affordable Rental

Housing Discrimination Studies

Housing: A Snapshot of Growing Need,

• In Practice: Fair Housing Organizations

Current Threats, and Innovative Solutions

Use Testing to Expose Discrimination

• Research Spotlight: How Research Tools

Are Assisting Communities to Preserve,

Plan Affordable Housing

• In Practice: Models for Affordable

Housing Preservation

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AGING IN PLACE

The fall 2013 issue of Evidence Matters

felt that their home would be able to

looked at measuring the costs and

accommodate them very well as they age

savings of aging in place and discussed

community-centered solutions for aging

Expanding on the Evidence Matters issue,

at home This topic is especially important

aging in place was the featured topic of the

and relevant at the current time and in the

January 2014 PD&R Quarterly Briefing

near future as increasing life expectancy, a

The event featured former HUD Secretary

declining birth rate, and the aging of the

and Executive Chairman of CityView

baby boom generation will dramatically

Henry Cisneros as well as leading

increase the number and proportion of the

researchers and practitioners from the field

US population over the age of 65 Aging

The discussion examined the challenges

of the population presents challenges and

mentioned above and others such as

questions including where people will live

the economics of aging in place, social

and how they will obtain the support and

service demands, technology and physical

care they will require as they grow older

requirements, community planning,

Surveys have shown that 89 percent of

and government programs An archived

adults aged 50 and older hope to remain in

video of the event is available through

their homes as they age, but only half

HUDUserorg

Cityscape. Cityscape is a multidisciplinary

• The mixed success of mixed income housing,

scholarly journal that PD&R publishes

• The relation of rental assistance to crime,

three times a year to advance the state of

knowledge, policy, and practice in the areas

• The impacts of housing and neighborhood

of HUD’s mission Each issue includes

on child and youth development, and

a Symposium of scholarly papers on a

• How design affects affordability

common theme In FY 2013 and 2014,

The Point of Contention is a high-level

Cityscape symposia covered:

debate on areas in which scholars do not

agree In FY 2013 and 2014, the areas of

• The impacts of residential mobility on

disagreement were: whether homeownership

communities and families,

had an impact on child well-being; the equity

• How local governments have reacted to

and efficiency of property taxes relative to

climate change,

other local government revenue sources;

CITYSCAPE ADVISORY BOARD: Richard Green, University of South Carolina; Carolina K Reid, University of California Berkeley; Dolores Acevedo Garcia, Brandeis University; Ira Goldstein, the Reinvestment Fund; Jens O Ludwig, University of Chicago; Mark Joseph, Case Western University; Mary E Pattillo, Northwestern University; Patrick T Sharkey, New York University; Ted Koebel, Virginia Tech; Matthew Kahn, University of California Los Angeles

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whether urban density can be expected to

Data Shop, which introduces the reader to

increase in the next 40 years; the equity and

new data sets and new procedures for using

efficiency of the tax deductibility for home

the data in familiar sources

mortgage interest; and whether poverty

deconcentration should be a priority goal of

US housing policy

The refereed papers in FY 2013 and 2014

explored such issues as: the impact of

housing assistance on worst-case needs,

the competitiveness of the real estate

brokerage market in low- and high-income

neighborhoods, information externalities in

mortgage lending, how energy efficiency affects

mortgage risk, and the relative fiscal efficiency

of different types of government support for

reduced residential energy consumption

Departments are short papers to help

scholars or new students explore the areas of

HUD’s mission In FY 2013 and 2014 these

papers included: Impact, which details and

CITYSCAPE DOWNLOADS:

explains the benefit and cost calculations

for new HUD regulations; Policy Briefs;

FY 2013

935,066

Graphic Detail, which illustrates the power

FY 2014*

948,000

of maps to inform public policy and social

* Estimate based on nine months of data.

science; Foreign Exchange, which describes

policy innovations in housing and urban

development in other countries that may

be of interest to US readers; Industrial

Revolution, which illustrates the potential

of technological innovation in residential

construction to affect society; Spatial Analysis

and Methods (SpAM), which takes the reader

step-by-step through pioneer techniques in

the analysis of geographic information; and

CITYSCAPE GUEST EDITORS: Carlos E Martin, Evolution of US Affordable Housing Design and Construction, Cityscape Volume 16, Number 2, 2014; Elizabeth Rudd and Molly Irwin, Housing, Contexts, and the Well-Being of Children and Youth, Cityscape Volume 16, Number 1, 2014; Ron Wilson and Brent D Mast, Rental Assistance and Crime, Cityscape Volume 15, Number 3, 2013; James C Fraser, Deirdre Oakley, and Diane K Levy, Mixed Messages on Mixed Incomes, Cityscape Volume 15, Number 2, 2013; Richard C Feiock and Christopher Coutss, Climate Change and City Hall, Cityscape Volume 15, Number 1, 2013

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AWARDS

IAH 2014’s partner was the Housing

PD&R has a longstanding commitment

Authority of Bergen County (HABC)

to identifying and sharing innovative best

HABC offered a challenging project for the

practices An important vehicle for identifying

competition—a historic American Legion

these efforts is the awards program PD&R

building situated on 15 acres HABC wished

manages the well-regarded HUD Secretary’s

to maintain this historic building while

Awards and in FY 2014 launched a new

providing affordable housing for homeless

competition that engages students Detailed

veterans IAH student participants needed to

descriptions on all award winners can be

consider design, community development,

found on HUDUserorg/awards

and financing elements in order to provide

an all-encompassing plan and solution that

THE INNOVATION IN AFFORD-

would allow HABC to meet their goal They

ABLE HOUSING STUDENT DESIGN

also had to demonstrate an understanding of

AND PLANNING COMPETITION

needs of the intended residents, the zoning

restrictions, and leveraging opportunities

The first annual Innovation in Affordable

Housing (IAH) Student Design and Planning

A jury of five academics, practitioners,

Competition officially launched in January

planners, and architects narrowed down

2014 This exciting new initiative encourages

the submissions to four finalist teams The

research and innovation in affordable housing

finalists were then invited to invite the

and raises future practitioner capacity while

project site, walk the grounds, and hear

fostering cross-discipline teamwork among

from members of the community

design, finance, public policy, and planning

students It also aims to raise awareness of

The competition culminated in a final

affordable housing at the university level

presentation at HUD Headquarters in

Washington, DC, in early May 2014 The jury

Interdisciplinary teams of three to five

heard each finalist team’s presentation and then

graduate students work to solve problems

asked questions before they left for deliberation

and craft solutions in response to a project

Former HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan

encountered by a public housing authority

announced the results The runner up, receiving

HUD INNOVATION IN AFFORDABLE

HOUSING STUDENT DESIGN AND

PLANNING COMPETITION JURORS

Julie DeGraaf Velazquez, Vice President/Project

Manager, McCormack Baron Salazar

Deborah De Santis, President/CEO, Corporation

for Supportive Housing

Katie Swenson, Vice President, National Design

Initiatives, Enterprise Community Partners

David Eisen, Principal, Abacus Architects + Planners

Michael Pitchford, President and CEO, Community

Preservation and Development Corporation

Nina Janpaul, President/CEO, Arlington

Former Secretary Shaun Donovan poses with

Partnership for Affordable Housing

the winning team from Ohio State University.

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a $5,000 prize, was the joint team from New

The Secretary’s Awards for Community

York University and Columbia University The

Foundations The Secretary’s Award for

team’s plan included three buildings with eight

Community Foundations recognizes excellence

units each and featured innovative ideas such

in public-philanthropic partnerships that have

as a grey/black water system, a transportation

both transformed the relationship between

center for residents, and a multi-seasonal

the sectors and led to measurable benefits in

gazebo The winner, receiving a $10,000 prize,

terms of increased economic employment,

was the team from The Ohio State University

health, safety, education, sustainability,

This team designed four buildings with six

inclusivity and cultural opportunities, and/or

units each, a main circulation core between

housing access for low- and moderate-income

buildings, and common areas including a

families These partnerships serve as worthy

south garden and a north patio The team

models for other communities The award is

also outlined an effective outreach plan and

presented by the Department of Housing and

discussed the seven elements of wellness

Urban Development in partnership with the

throughout their presentation

Council on Foundations’ Public-Philanthropic

Partnership Initiative

Following a successful inaugural year, PD&R

is currently planning the second year of the

2013 Winners:

Innovation in Affordable Housing Student

Design and Planning Competition, which

• Empire Health Foundation

will launch in fall 2014

(Washington): Eastern Washington

Obesity Prevention Initiative

SECRETARY’S AWARDS

• Fairfield County Community Foundation

The HUD Secretary’s Awards, managed

(Connecticut): Stable Families Program

by PD&R, honor projects that exemplify

• Rasmuson Foundation (Alaska):

excellence in four categories: community

Pre-Development (Pre-D) Program

planning, historic preservation, affordable

• The Raymond John Wean

housing design, and cooperative public/private

Foundation (Ohio): Youngstown

efforts HUD presents the awards annually in

Community Revitalization

partnership with the several leading housing

and community development organizations

• The Rhode Island Foundation (Rhode

Island): Green and Healthy Homes

The Secretary’s Award for Excellence in

Initiative® Providence

Historic Preservation HUD presents

• The Saint Paul Foundation (Minnesota):

the Secretary’s Award for Excellence in

Central Corridor Funders Collaborative

Historic Preservation in partnership with

and Corridors of Opportunity

the National Trust for Historic Preservation

• Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland

to recognize efforts that both advance the

(Ohio): Housing First Initiative of

nation’s historic preservation goals and

Cuyahoga County

provide affordable housing and economic

development opportunities for low- and

• United Way of Greater Los Angeles

moderate-income residents

California): Home for Good

• Wells Fargo Regional Foundation (New

2012 Winner: Saint Luke’s Manor

Jersey): New Jersey Neighborhood

Cleveland, Ohio

Revitalization Grants Program

• Women’s Foundation for a Greater

2013 Winner: Riverside Plaza Rehabilitation

Memphis (Tennessee): US Memphis HOPE

Minneapolis, Minnesota

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The Secretary’s Opportunity and

2013 Winners: Via Verde–The Green Way

Empowerment Award HUD has issued the

(New York, New York)

Secretary’s Opportunity and Empowerment

Award since 1998 in partnership with the

2014 Winner: 28th Street Apartments (Los

American Planning Association This award

Angeles, California)

recognizes excellence in planning that has led

to measurable benefits in terms of increased

CREATING COMMUNITY

economic employment, education, or housing

CONNECTIONS AWARD

choice or mobility for low- and moderate-

This award recognizes projects that

income residents The award stresses tangible

incorporate housing within other community

results and recognizes the planning discipline

amenities for the purpose of either

as an important community resource It

revitalization or planned growth

emphasizes how creative housing, economic

development, and private investments are

2014 Winner: Kelly Cullen Community

used in, or in tandem with, a comprehensive

(San Francisco, California)

community development plan

COMMUNITY-INFORMED

2012 Winner: Robert R Taylor Homes/

DESIGN AWARD

NorthSide Revitalization (Wilmington,

North Carolina)

This award recognizes design that supports

physical communities as they rebuild

2013 Winner: Owe’neh Bupingeh

social structures and relationships that may

Preservation Plan (Ohkay Owingeh,

have weakened because of out-migration,

New Mexico)

disinvestment, and the isolation of inner-

city areas

2014 Winner: Mountain View Village

(Anchorage, Alaska)

2013 Winner: Community Learning

Center (Leominster, Massachusetts)

The Secretary’s Housing and Community

Design Awards The American Institute

2014 Winner: Kings Beach Housing Now

of Architects (AIA), in conjunction with

(Lake Tahoe, Nevada)

the Office of the Secretary of the US

Department of Housing and Urban

ALAN J. ROTHMAN AWARD FOR

HOUSING ACCESSIBILITY

Development (HUD), recognizes excellence in

affordable housing architecture, neighborhood

The purpose of this award is to recognize

design, participatory design, and accessibility

exemplary projects that demonstrate

These awards, offered across several categories,

excellence in improving housing accessibility

demonstrate that key role design plays

for people with disabilities This award is

building thriving homes and communities in

named for Alan Rothman, a longtime former

addition to providing examples of important

PD&R employee and recognized leader in

benchmarks in the housing industry

accessibility design and architecture

Excellence in Affordable Housing Design

2013 Winner: New Accessible Passive Solar

Award This award recognizes architecture

Housing (Stoneham, Massachusetts)

that demonstrates overall excellence in terms

of design in response to both the needs and

2014 Winner: Sierra Bonita Apartments

the constraints of affordable housing

(West Hollywood, California)

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PD&R’S PARTNER

ENGAGEMENT

PD&R also works to engage a variety of Signature Partnerships Since the stakeholders to build partnerships and

inauguration of the HUD Secretary’s Award for

ladders of opportunity, source and share

Public-Private Philanthropic Partnerships in FY

innovation and ideas, and connect the work of

2012, HUD and the Council on Foundations

HUD to a range of communities in support

(COF) have continued to recognize

of furthering HUD’s mission While PD&R’s

exemplary partnerships between philanthropy,

engagement efforts take a number of forms,

businesses, and the public sector at the local

this work is the particular focus of three of the

level The Secretary’s Award represents one

seven offices that comprise PD&R:

of IPI’s many tools for engagement with

philanthropy By recognizing foundations for

• Office of International and Philanthropic

their groundbreaking collaborative work, IPI

Innovation (IPI)

deepens and strengthens HUD’s relationships

• Office of University Partnerships (OUP)

with philanthropy across the country In FY

2013, COF and HUD selected another 10

• White House Council for Strong Cities,

foundations from a dynamic and competitive

Strong Communities (SC2)

pool of applicants, with awards announced by

former Secretary Donovan at the Council’s Fall

Through IPI, OUP, and SC2, PD&R

Conference for Community Foundations in

works to build strong connections between

San Diego in September 2013 These winners

HUD and philanthropy, nongovernmental

are described in an earlier section The FY

organizations (NGOs), anchor institutions,

2014 award will be the first announced jointly

distressed communities, and other partners

with another agency as a result of HUD’s

OFFICE FOR INTERNATIONAL AND

partnership with the US Department of

PHILANTHROPIC INNOVATION

Agriculture (USDA)

The Office for International and

Design In FY 2013, IPI worked with the

Philanthropic Innovation (IPI) works to

Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force to

position HUD as a hub for innovation by

develop a formal partnership between the Task

building partnerships, sourcing innovations,

Force and philanthropy to launch REBUILD

and aligning resources and private capital

BY DESIGN, a multistage regional design

from across the globe and across sectors, all

competition to promote resilience for the

towards HUD’s mission of creating resilient,

Sandy-affected region The competition

sustainable, equitable, and economically

featured four focus areas: coastal communities,

vibrant communities

high-density urban environments, ecological

and water body networks, and a catchall “other

PHILANTHROPIC ENGAGEMENT. Through

areas” category The goal of the competition

strategic partnerships, IPI leverages and aligns

was to develop and implement innovative,

resources for HUD’s community development

regionally scalable (but locally contextual)

projects across the country Since IPI’s launch

solutions to bolster resilience The competition

in 2010, the office’s efforts have resulted in

process aimed to deliver a better understanding

more than $100 million in direct and aligned

of regional interdependencies and encourage

investments through cross-sector collaborations

regional coordination and resilience across

with funders and funder networks

the United States A total of 140 proposals

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from across the globe were submitted, all with

investors; monetizes social impact/outcomes

creative plans ranging from infrastructure to

of social services; and realizes costs savings

green spaces Beginning in June 2013, 10

for government, ultimately connecting

interdisciplinary design teams worked with

performance outcomes to financial return

diverse stakeholders in the Sandy-affected

region to develop innovative solutions to

Pay for Success Demonstration

rebuild Six winning proposals were announced

IPI and several other HUD program

by the Secretary in June 2014 Building on the

offices are currently engaged in a Pay

success of REBUILD BY DESIGN, HUD

for Success demonstration to test the

is now partnering with philanthropy on the

effectiveness and financial feasibility of the

national level to design future competitions,

permanent supportive housing model The

aligning private capital and expertise with

demonstration is funded through a PFS

HUD funding and initiatives

model and targets the reentry population

who frequently cycle in and out of the

Social Innovation During the past several

shelter and corrections systems HUD,

years, IPI has worked closely with international

along with the Bureau of Justice Assistance,

and philanthropic partners on efforts to

US Department of Justice, announced the

promote social innovation Much of this

availability of approximately $5 million to

work has centered on new financial models

structure a PFS demonstration, funded out

to drive philanthropic and private investment

of the Second Chance Act in the FY 2014

toward explicit social and environmental

budget The demonstration measures the

goals and outcomes One such model, Pay

potential savings accrued when permanent

for Success (PFS), bridges the gap between

supportive housing is applied to a specific,

fewer federal resources and increasing needs

measurable target population through Pay for

and demands—now and in the future A Pay

Success financing By pairing stable housing

for Success contract allows government to pay

with social services, permanent supportive

for services when predetermined performance

housing will deliver better participant

measures are reached, primarily in providing

outcomes and reduce back-end spending on

more cost-effective services to a vulnerable

crisis care services, corrections systems, and

population A PFS partnership leverages private

homeless shelters The PFS model is essential

capital; taps into new funding opportunities;

in incentivizing preventative measures

shifts outlay risk to philanthropic and private

targeted at a high-cost, high-need population

and a model where there is an opportunity to

be adapted by other HUD program offices

Former Secretary Shaun Donovan

INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT. In

in Medellín, Colombia, for the World

addition to philanthropic work, IPI

Urban Forum.

cultivates relationships with partners across

geographical boundaries and sectors

IPI hosts learning exchanges, networks

across agencies, and builds thoughtful and

productive partnerships with lasting and

wide-ranging effect

Memoranda of Understanding (MOU)

A key vehicle for this work is long-term

cooperative partnerships with other federal

housing ministries In 2013, HUD signed

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a memorandum of understanding with

that may inform HUD’s rapid rehousing

The Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure

programs Interesting elements of the program

and the Environment to address disaster

include the flat-rate, time-limited nature

mitigation, sustainable and integrated

of the subsidy with greater administrative

planning, and water management

simplicity and payment flexibility for tenants

infrastructure Ministry officials contributed

significant expertise around flood protection

World Urban Forum IPI co-led the US

systems and long-term disaster mitigation

government’s Interagency Planning Process

to the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task

for the World Urban Forum 7 (WUF7) held

Force and ultimately helped establish the

April 5–11, 2014, in Medellín, Colombia

REBUILD BY DESIGN competition

Sponsored by UN-Habitat, WUF is the

world’s premier international conference

Dialogues for Change In 2013, IPI

examining issues in sustainable urban

launched the Dialogues for Change (D4C)

development In addition to overseeing the

program under HUD’s 2011 memorandum

selection and briefing of the official US

of understanding with the German federal

delegation, IPI staffed former Secretary

government D4C is an innovative peer-

Shaun Donovan as he led the US’s diverse

to-peer city learning exchange network,

and dynamic cross-sector presence At

bringing together urban planners from the

WUF7, Secretary Donovan used high-profile

United States and Germany to find integrated

speaking opportunities to elevate the Obama

solutions to complex, shared, urban, and

Administration’s flagship programs that

community development challenges In the

address economic inequality and highlighted

first year of this work, US participants—all

prominent US financing mechanisms and

Office of Economic Resilience or Strong

innovative cross-sector partnership networks

Cities, Strong Communities grantees—

that allow the United States to develop

participated in a series of workshops

affordable housing despite increasing fiscal

addressing inclusion, equity, and engagement

challenges Secretary Donovan was able to

in the master planning process and shared

substantively engage his global counterparts

lessons learned with peer networks

and other thought leaders and evaluate

innovative strategies being used to address

Exchange With Chile In addition to

housing and urban challenges

MOU-level partnerships, over the past 18

months HUD has worked with Chile’s

OFFICE OF UNIVERSITY

Ministry of Housing and Urban Development

PARTNERSHIPS

(MINVU) on issues of shared interest:

The Office of University Partnerships (OUP)

disaster reconstruction and affordable rental

was established to encourage and expand

housing policy Former Secretary Donovan

the efforts of colleges and universities that

traveled to Chile in January 2014 to observe

are striving to make a difference in their

Chile’s reconstruction efforts after the 2010

communities OUP is committed to helping

earthquake and tsunami and apply lessons

universities join with their neighbors in

to HUD’s rebuilding work after Hurricane

partnerships that address urban problems—

Sandy In turn, HUD staff has also been

partnerships that enable university students,

assisting MINVU to craft South America’s

faculty, and neighborhood organizations

first-ever rental housing program, Chao

to work together to revitalize the economy,

Suegra (Goodbye Mother-in-law) Loosely

generate jobs, and rebuild healthy cities

modeled from HUD’s Housing Choice

Voucher Program, Chao Suegra is now being

The Anchor Dashboard OUP hosted a

monitored by PD&R staff for policy choices

November 2013 event to present a white

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paper submitted to the Annie E Casey

OUP, in partnership with Albright College,

Foundation by the Democracy Collaborative

PA Campus Compact, and the Federal

of the University of Maryland that aimed at

Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, co-hosted the

developing some common indicators and

September 2014 “ Place Matters: Partnerships

metrics for use in measuring community

Between Institutions of Higher Education

engagement The Anchor Dashboard identifies

and Their Local Communities” This one-day

12 critical areas where anchor institutions can

event celebrated the opening of the Center

play an effective role Additionally, it develops

for Civic and Global Engagement at Albright

illustrative indicators that provide a baseline

College The convening will spotlight and

to assess conditions in the community and

explore how colleges and universities work in

evaluate institutional effort—eg, dollars spent,

partnership to positively impact the quality

procurement shifted, people hired, and policies

of their communities through community

and accountability procedures in place

and economic development projects

while providing transformative learning

As noted in a summary of the white paper,

opportunities for their students

“anchor institutions are enterprises such as

universities and hospitals that are rooted in

Anchor Institutions Forums OUP

their local communities by mission, invested

periodically hosts Anchor Institutions forums

capital, or relationships to customers,

to explore best practices, emerging issues,

employees, and vendors As place-based

and opportunities for collaboration The

entities that control vast economic, human,

April 2014 forum, “Anchor Institutions:

intellectual, and institutional resources, anchor

Historically Black Colleges and Universities

institutions have the potential to bring crucial,

Leading the Way to Community

and measurable, benefits to local children,

Transformation,” showcased best practices

families, and communities” The Anchor

among Historically Black Colleges and

Dashboard was developed through extensive

Universities (HBCUs) in implementing

research and indepth interviews conducted

community and economic development

with more than 75 leaders of anchor

activities in low-wealth communities

institutions, national nonprofit organizations,

Panelists from Benedict College, located in

federal agencies, and community

Columbia, South Carolina, and Coppin State

organizations Anchor institutions will be

University, Baltimore, Maryland, discussed

asked to review, endorse, and eventually

how they have maximized resources and

deploy the Democracy Collaborative’s

developed and nurtured collaborations with

proposed indicators and metrics

federal, state, and local entities to build local

capacity and stronger communities These

Anchor Institutions and Communities

HBCUs have made exciting improvements to

Sharing a Common Goal In September

their communities For example, they have:

2013, OUP co-hosted the FY 2013 Historically

rehabilitated and constructed residential

Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)

structures to increase housing opportunities;

conference with the Historically Black Colleges

rehabilitated commercial buildings; carried

and Universities Community Development

out special economic development programs

Action Coalition in Atlanta, Georgia The

that provide financial assistance for the

agenda covered a wide range of topics,

establishment, stabilization, and expansion of

such as: healthy food and lifestyles, HUD’s

microenterprises; sponsored homeownership

investment in HBCUs, anchor institutions

and counseling programs; and provided an

and community wealth-building, and the role

array of public service activities

of anchor institutions investing in community

and economic development projects

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Deputy Assistant Secretary Sherone Ivey introduces panelists at the April 2014

forum entitled, “Anchor Institutions: Historically Black Colleges and Universities Leading the Way to Community Transformation.”

A fall 2014 forum will featured HBCUs

leverage federal resources and form key

offering presentations that will showcase best

partnerships to implement economic visions

practices among HBCUs in implementing

SC2 has four core components: federal,

community and economic development

interagency teams deployed to fourteen

activities in low-wealth communities Also

locations, the SC2 Fellowship Program, the

in fall 2014, an Anchor Institutions Forum

Economic Visioning Challenge, and the

featuring Hispanic-Serving Institutions

National Resource Network Each of these

from San Antonio will spotlight the tools

components is described in more detail

for engaging local stakeholders in effective

below SC2 supports President Obama’s

community and economic development

agenda to make historic investments to build

ladders of opportunity for Americans who

STRONG CITIES,

are working hard to make it to the middle

STRONG COMMUNITIES

class and to partner with communities that

In March 2012 President Barack Obama

were hardest-hit by the recent recession

signed an Executive Order establishing the

White House Council on Strong Cities,

In April 2013, the Council published

Strong Communities (SC2) The SC2 Council

its annual report, which detailed the

is co-chaired by HUD Secretary Julián

accomplishments in the pilot cities as

Castro and the Assistant to the President for

well as burgeoning policy lessons That

Domestic Policy Cecilia Muñoz More than 20

report is available on HUDUserorg

departments, agencies, and other offices within

SC2’s achievements have proved a model

the Administration, including the Director of

of collaboration across different levels

the Office of Management and Budget and the

of government and lessons about how

Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, are

to more effectively coordinate existing

part of the SC2 Council

government resources SC2’s work on the

ground in communities has revealed a

President Obama established SC2 to

host of policy lessons and innovations that

create an innovative new model of federal-

the Administration will disseminate as it

local collaboration dedicated to assisting

develops and refines strategies to help cities

communities to get back on their feet

meet their needs

and create jobs by helping them better

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Federal experts from SC2’s 19 member

agencies convened at the White

House for the 2014 SC2 orientation.

SC2 Federal Interagency Teams These

development, housing, transportation,

interagency groups of federal employees

public safety, and public health, among other

work in select cities to assist local mayors

areas The work of the SC2 teams forms the

in implementing plans and approaches

foundation for the policy recommendations

to recovery and revitalization The SC2

the SC2 Council provides through its Annual

Initiative began in seven pilot locations:

Report to the Co-Chairs as required by the

Chester, Pennsylvania; the Northeast Ohio

Executive Order

region of Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio;

Detroit, Michigan; Fresno, California;

SC2 Fellowship Program The SC2

Memphis, Tennessee; and New Orleans,

Fellowship program has helped rebuild

Louisiana In January 2014, the Initiative

local government capacity by training and

announced a second cohort of cities selected

placing highly motivated early- to mid-

through a competitive process The selected

career professionals in the mayors’ offices or

cities were: Brownsville, Texas; Flint,

relevant local government agencies Through

Michigan; Gary, Indiana; Macon, Georgia;

a competitive process, HUD selected the

Rockford, Illinois; Rocky Mount, North

German Marshall Fund of the United States

Carolina; and St Louis, Missouri

(GMF) in 2011 to manage and implement

the fellowship program, funded through a

The SC2 teams engage on the ground to

generous $25 million contribution from

help cities more effectively invest existing

the Rockefeller Foundation The fellowship

resources, provide advice and expertise in

program placed fellows in each of the

support of local priorities, better align federal

seven SC2 pilot cities to take on strategic

programs and investments, and facilitate new

responsibilities and be immersed in the core

partnerships and peer learning opportunities

operations of the city, engage in peer-to-peer

wherever possible To date, the work of the

learning opportunities and become active

SC2 teams has enabled SC2 cities to more

leaders in their city, and be intensely engaged

effectively utilize more than $368 million

and committed to redeveloping the city with

in existing federal funds and investments

the hope that fellows remain working in the

The SC2 teams have also provided expertise

city after the program ends A number of

that have helped SC2 cities make significant

the 17 fellows have transitioned from the

progress toward their priorities in economic

fellowship program into permanent positions

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in city hall, providing continuity and a

The Network provides cities with customized

deeper bench of municipal staff experts in

tools and advice to build strategic partnerships,

these communities

strengthen their economic competitiveness, and

marshal public and private sector resources

To further support the work of the SC2

fellows and to deepen the community and

The Network will develop and deliver

economic development capacity in each

innovative solutions to 80–100 cities and

of the pilot cities, GMF initiated a series

regions to help them address their toughest

of policy “bootcamps” to bring national

economic challenges by working with local

experts together for two days of intensive

leaders to identify practical solutions, share

learning and dialogue around the issues that

real-world expertise and best practices, and

local practitioners, government leaders, and

help them develop the tools and strategies

nonprofit leaders surfaced as critical to each

they need to grow their economies Three

city’s economic development and strategic

cities (Fall River, Massachusetts, Kansas City,

planning priorities Policy bootcamps were

Kansas, and Miami, Florida) and a region

held in each of the seven pilot locations

encompassing several cities in and around

throughout 2013 and into early 2014

Los Angeles, California (Compton and

Lynwood) have already begun engagements

SC2 Economic Visioning Challenge The

with teams of experts The Network’s Web

Economic Visioning Challenge aligns with the

site (nationalresourcenetworkorg) also offers

Administration’s commitment to use prizes

a curated library of best practices, toolkits,

and challenges to promote innovation Led

and technical assistance opportunities from

by the Department of Commerce, Economic

federal agencies and, will eventually include

Development Administration (EDA), the

publicly available information from state and

Economic Visioning Challenge is designed

local agencies and national nonprofits as well

to help additional cities develop economic

blueprints In September 2012, EDA selected

Greensboro, North Carolina, Hartford,

Connecticut, and Las Vegas, Nevada, to

receive prize money to fund the visioning

challenge EDA is partnering with these

communities to provide technical assistance as

they design the prize competitions

National Resource Network The Initiative is

applying the SC2 model of customized federal

technical assistance to a much larger number

of local governments through the National

Resource Network (the Network) In May

2014, the Administration launched this new

program to leverage the expertise, partnerships,

and resources of the public and private sectors

to help cities comprehensively tackle their most

pressing challenges The Network consortium

includes leading experts and practitioners

from the private and nonprofit sectors as well

as academia who work with city leaders every

day to address their greatest economic needs

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LOOKING AHEAD

As evidenced by the work featured in In addition, PD&R will release final reports on this report and plans taking shape for

much-anticipated research and demonstration

the next two years, this is an exciting time

efforts; continuing hosting thought-provoking

for HUD and for PD&R Here are a few

convenings; and ensure that HUDUserorg

highlights of what’s ahead:

remains a go to resource for research, data, and

best practices

• A redesign of online magazine, The Edge,

coming in fall 2014

The previous PD&R biennial report bore the

• Launch of the next Research Roadmap

subtitle “building for the future” Looking ahead,

planning and stakeholder engagement

PD&R will continue moving forward toward

process in 2015

that future with an exciting pipeline of research,

data, demonstrations, policy translation, and

• A series of activities and products

outreach designed to serve our mission of

celebrating HUD’s 50th Anniversary

improving life in American communities

throughout 2016

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APPENDIX: PUBLICATION

AND DATA SETS

During the past two years, PD&R has released 33 reports and 28 data sets All of the reports and data sets listed below can be accessed through HUDUserorg

Reports, FY 2013–2014

Abt Associates Inc and Fairview Industries January 2013 The Feasibility of Developing a National Parcel Database: County Data Records Project Final Report. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Abt Associates Inc March 2013 Family Options Study: Interim Report. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Arnold, Loreen H and Mark J Mazz November 2013 Design Details for Accessible Disaster Relief Housing. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Blount, Casey, Elaine Ng, Iku Nakano, and Wendy Ip January 2014 Redevelopment Agencies in California: History, Benefits, Excesses, and Closure. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Center for Transit-Oriented Development April 2014 Creating Connected Communities: A Guidebook for Improving Transportation Connections for Low- and Moderate-Income Household in Small and Mid-Sized Cities.

Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Cunningham, Mary, The Urban Institute, Martha Burt, Jennifer Biess, and Dina Emam September 2013 Veterans Homeless Prevention Demonstration Evaluation: Interim Report. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Dion, Robin M, Amy Dworsky, Jackie Kauff, and Rebecca Kleinman May 2014 The Family Unification Program: A Housing Resource for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

––––– May 2014 Housing for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Dworsky, Amy and Robin M Dion May 2014 Issue Brief: Evaluating Housing Programs for Youth who Age Out of Foster Care. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Eggers, Frederick J, Fouad Moumen, and Econometrica, Inc December 2013 Between-Survey Changes in the Number of Bedrooms in a Unit: How Often? Why? Effect on Measures of Rental Affordability? Washington, DC: US

Department of Housing and Urban Development

––––– January 2014 New AHS PUF Information on HUD-Assisted Rental Housing. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

––––– March 2013 American Housing Survey: A Measure of (Poor) Housing Quality. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

––––– March 2013 American Housing Survey: Housing Adequacy and Quality As Measured by the AHS. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Gebhardt, Matthew F June 2014 Spatial Analysis of Choice Neighborhoods Initiative Planning Grant Applicant Neighborhoods. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Khadduri, Jill, Meghan Henry, Lauren Dunton, and Eliza Kean February 2014 Study of PHAs’ Efforts to Serve People Experiencing Homelessness. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Kingsley, Thomas G, Kathryn Pettit, Jennifer Biess, Kassie Bertumen, Amos Budde, Chris Narducci, and Nancy Pindus

January 2014 Continuity and Change: Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Housing, Conditions of American Indians and Alaska Natives. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Komadina, Stephen, Timothy McNally, and Samuel Young March 2014 I mpact of Oil and Gas Exploration on Affordable Housing. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

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Locke, Gretchen, and Larry Buron March 2013 Study of Household Transition from the Disaster Housing Assistance Program (DHAP-Katrina): Final Report. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

M Davis and Company, Inc, Samantha Friedman, Angela Reynolds, Susan Scovill, Florence R Brassier, Ron Campbell, and McKenzie Ballou June 2013 An Estimate of Housing Discrimination Against Same-Sex Couples. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

The Urban Institute, Margery Austin Turner, Diane K Levy, Doug Wissoker, Claudia Aranda, Rob Pitingolo, and Rob Santos June 2013 Housing Discrimination Against Racial and Ethnic Minorities 2012. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

The Urban Institute January 2013 Expanding Housing Opportunities Through Inclusionary Zoning: Lessons from Two Counties. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

––––– September 2013 Developing Choice Neighborhoods: An Early Look at Implementation in Five Sites – Interim Report.

Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

US Department of Housing and Urban Development April 2014 HUD Strategic Plan 2014–2018. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

––––– August 2013 Worst Case Housing Needs 2011: Report to Congress. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

––––– February 2013 Worst Case Housing Needs 2011: Report to Congress – Summary. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy of Development and Research May 2013

Programs of HUD: Major Mortgage, Grant, Assistance, and Regulatory Programs. Washington, DC: US

Department of Housing and Urban Development

––––– February 2013 Office of Policy Development & Research Biennial Report FY 2011–2012. Washington, DC: US

Department of Housing and Urban Development

––––– April 2013 Strong Cities, Strong Communities Initiative 1st Annual Report. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of University Partnerships February 2013 F acilitators of Change. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

––––– February 2013 Building Resiliency: The Role of Anchor Institutions in Sustaining Community Economic Development.

Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

––––– February 2013 Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

US Housing Market Conditions Reports, FY 2013–2014

US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research May 2014

1st Quarter National Housing Market Summary. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

_____ February 2014 4th Quarter National Housing Market Summary. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

––––– December 2013 3rd Quarter National Housing Market Summary. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

––––– August 2013 2nd Quarter National Housing Market Summary. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

––––– May 2013 1st Quarter National Housing Market Summary. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Data Sets, FY 2013–2014

July 2014 USPS Vacancy Data for Quarter 2, 2014 Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

July 2014 AHS Updates: 2013 AHS BETA PUF Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

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July 2014 HUD Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) Data for 2013 Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

June 2014 A Picture of Subsidized Households – 2013 Data Based on 2010 Census Washington, DC: US

Department of Housing and Urban Development

May 2014 USPS Vacancy Data for Quarter 4, 2013 Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

May 2014 HUD USPS ZIP Code Crosswalk Files 4th Quarters of 2013 and 1st Quarters of 2014 All Quarters of 2013 Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

March 2014 USPS Vacancy Data for Quarter 1, 2013 Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

February 2014 Special Tabulations of Households 2011 ACS 5-Year Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

February 2014 HUD USPS ZIP Code Crosswalk Files 3rd Quarters of 2013 All Quarters of 2013 Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

December 2013 FY 2014 Income Limits for NSP Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

December 2013 FY 2014 Income Limits Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

December 2013 MTSP Income Limits Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

December 2013 Uniform Relocation Act Income Limits Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

September 2013 HUD Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) Data for 2012 Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

August 2013 Fair Market Rents: Proposed FY 2014 FMRs Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

July 2013 USPS Vacancy Data for Quarter 2, 2013 at the 2010 Census Tract Geographic Level Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

July 2013 HUD USPS ZIP Code Crosswalk Files 1st and 2nd Quarters of 2013, All Quarters of 2012

July 2013 HUD USER GIS Data Resources Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

July 2013 A Picture of Subsidized Households-2009 (reweighted) to 2012 Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

June 2013 HUD Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) Data for 2010 Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

June 2013 2013 Renewal Funding Inflation Factors Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

May 2013 Annual Adjustment Factors: FY 2013 Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

May 2013 USPS Vacancy Data for Quarter 1, 2013 at the 2010 Census Tract Geographic Level Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

May 2013 Utility Allowances Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

April 2013 New CHAS Data Based on the 2006-2010 and 2008-2010 ACS Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

April 2013 Housing Affordability Data System 2011 Data Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

February 2013 Building Permits: January 2013 Data Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

February 2013 Qualified Census Tracts and Difficult Development Areas Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development

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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Office of Policy Development and Research

Washington, DC 20410-6000

October 2014

Document Outline

Biennial Report FY 2013–2014

Table of Contents

Message From the Assistant Secretary

Introduction

Overview, Mission, and Core Functions

PD&R’s People and Organization

PD&R Organization Chart

PD&R Field Economist Organization Chart

PD&R’s Funding and Budget

Research and Technology

Transformation Initiative

Data and GIS

The American Housing Survey

The Rental Housing Finance Survey

Fair Market Rent Data

Income Limits Data

CHAS Data

Administrative Data

GIS With a Purpose

Additional Data Efforts

Research and Demonstrations

Research Roadmap

Projects Recently Completed and Currently Underway

New Research Vehicles

PD&R’s Outreach and Dissemination

HUD USER

PD&R Mobile and Social Media

Convenings

Periodicals

Awards

PD&R’s Partner Engagement

Office for International and Philanthropic Innovation

Office of University Partnerships

Strong Cities, Strong Communities

Looking Ahead

Appendix: Publication and data sets