Services in Housing: An Opportunity to Strengthen America's Public Health Infrastructure is a series of issue briefs that examine the role that housing-based services play in our public health infrastructure.
The harms exacted by the eviction process expand well beyond America’s families. Eviction has exceedingly destabilized the affordable housing industry at large, exacting a financial toll on the very developers and owners needed to preserve and expand the limited supply of subsidized, affordable housing.
Accessing capital is the most significant hurdle facing emerging small-scale Black, Indigenous and other people of color (BIPOC) real estate developers, and much of that challenge is rooted in the legacies of systemic racism.
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.