Toolkit
Creating a Healthy Home: A Field Guide for Clean-up of Flooded Homes
August 19, 2019
An illustrated step-by-step guide for do-it-yourselfers and contractors seeking to prevent mold-related health problems and save storm-damaged homes.
Report
Overcoming Barriers to Bringing Off-Site Construction to Scale
July 1, 2019
This white paper explores where the use of off-site construction techniques can boost the creation of subsidized housing and create cost savings for market-rate developers, which can help expand the supply of homes and ultimately enable homeowners and tenants to benefit from these benefits by lowering their housing costs, and what kinds of changes to the regulatory and financing systems could scale the use of off-site construction.
Documents
Comments to the Treasury on Data Collection and Tracking for Qualified Opportunity Zones
May 30, 2019
Comments to the Treasury in response to the Request for Information (RFI) on Data Collection and Tracking for Qualified Opportunity Zones.
Toolkit
Gentrification Comparison Tool
May 19, 2019
The Gentrification Comparison Tool maps neighborhoods in 93 U.S. cities over four decades by their gentrification status under three different definitions.
Toolkit
Communities Together
January 1, 2019
This guide is an expansion to the Community Engagement chapter published in 'Keep Safe, A Guide for Resilient Housing Design in Island Communities'.
Report
Report and Recommendations on Black People Experiencing Homelessness
December 11, 2018
The impact of institutional and structural racism in education, criminal justice, housing, employment, health care, and access to opportunities cannot be denied: homelessness is a by-product of racism in America.
Report
Gentrification: Framing Our Perceptions
October 9, 2018
This paper is the first in a series that looks at gentrification and its implications for policymaking. It highlights the importance of measurement to framing our perceptions about gentrification and its consequences. Subsequent papers will demonstrate the extent of overlap between different measures, and the intersections of gentrification and education policy decisions.
Report
Navigating Federal Transportation Policy
March 14, 2018
This report, the third in the Promoting Opportunity through eTOD research series, provides stakeholders involved in achieving eTOD, such as public entities, developers and practitioners, guidance on understanding and benefitting from federal transportation policies and programs.
Report
Safer And Stronger Cities: Strategies For Advocating For Policy
March 12, 2018
This report offers strategies for advocating for federal resilience policy. Each chapter includes a set of recommendations, background on the issue, explanations of the role of the Federal Government, listing of potential allies in advocating for the recommendations, and relevant examples of current or previous local, state, and federal actions.
Toolkit
Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) Toolkit
February 22, 2018
The Rental Assistance Demonstration helps preserve public housing by enabling public housing agencies to access new sources of funding to complete renovations and to preserve the buildings as affordable for the long term. The tools below are intended to empower and engage residents as their buildings go through the RAD conversion process to ensure the best possible outcomes.