Search Research Catalogue
Opening the “Black Box” of Tenant Screening
Urban Institute
Year: 2025
Research shows landlords overwhelmingly use tenant screening reports to make leasing decisions that affect housing access. Yet, the proprietary nature of these datasets leads to a lack of transparency in the accuracy and quality of the data provided. This brief … Continue reading
Climate Risks to Latino Homeowners and Communities
Urban Institute
Year: 2025
Latino homeowners and communities across the United States face escalating climate risks, including hurricanes, wildfires, and flooding. These hazards disproportionately impact Latino households due to geographic concentration of Latino home values in high-risk areas and systemic barriers to financial protection … Continue reading
America’s Housing Market Is Failing Older Adults
Urban Institute
Year: 2025
The US population is aging. Within the next decade, older adults will outnumber children for the first time in American history. As Americans live longer, their housing needs will change, but our current housing market is ill prepared for this demographic shift. … Continue reading
How and Why Do People Use Behavioral Health Services? A Qualitative Exploration of Service Use Among People Experiencing Housing Insecurity
The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research
Year: 2025
People experiencing housing insecurity and homelessness are diagnosed with mental health and substance use–related conditions at higher rates than their stably housed peers and often engage with systems including housing and homelessness systems such as eviction prevention, emergency shelters, homeless … Continue reading
Housing First as an Alternative to Criminalization: Preliminary Findings from Interviews with Unhoused and Formerly Unhoused People in Miami-Dade County
Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs. Florida International University
Year: 2025
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently awarded the Miami Dade County Homeless Trust an increased number of housing vouchers that subsidize rents, increased funding for specialized street outreach and long-term case management, and increased technical assistance … Continue reading
How Much Do You Need to Earn to Afford a Modest Apartment in Your State?
National Low Income Housing Coalition
Year: 2025
Hourly wage required to afford a two-bedroom rental home by state.
No State Has an Adequate Supply of Affordable Rental Housing for the Lowest-Income Renters
National Low Income Housing Coalition
Year: 2025
The U.S. has a shortage of 7.1 million rental homes affordable and available to renters with extremely low incomes – that is, incomes at or below either the federal poverty guideline or 30% of their area median income, whichever is … Continue reading
America’s housing affordability crisis and the decline of housing supply
The Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA)
Year: 2025
Sun Belt cities such as Miami and Phoenix that once offered affordable housing are starting to resemble high-priced coastal markets like New York and Los Angeles, according to a paper discussed at the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) conference … Continue reading
Improving Cross-Sector Collaborations between Healthcare and Housing: Challenges and Strategies Identified by Unhoused People with Complex Health Needs
Urban Health
Year: 2025
There is growing recognition of the need for collaboration between the healthcare and housing sectors to address the needs of people experiencing homelessness. This study explores how these cross-sector collaborations can be improved from the perspective of those with histories … Continue reading
The High Cost of Producing Multifamily Housing in California
RAND
Year: 2025
In this report, the authors present analyses of production cost differences among privately funded, market-rate apartments and publicly subsidized affordable apartments in California, Colorado, and Texas using a sample of cost data on more than 140 completed projects. The report … Continue reading