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August 26, 2024
Vouching for Self-Sufficiency
…that “voucher receipt increases violent crime, and that this increase is driven by men.” The voucher program is not going away. It now outstrips public housing projects nationwide as the…
August 23, 2024
Can Kamala Harris Learn the Housing Lessons from Her Own History?
…to help make payments. California’s bungalows were part of a nationwide trend of naturally occurring affordable housing: row houses in Philadelphia and Baltimore, three-decker houses in New England, and two-flats…
August 16, 2024
The Harris Campaign’s Foolish Down-Payment-Assistance Scheme
On the surface, Kamala Harris’s proposal to provide $25,000 in down-payment assistance to first-time homebuyers looks to be an incentive for upward mobility. Historically, homeownership has been the foundation for wealth creation for…
June 18, 2024
Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility
…since in early 2009, it wasn’t clear that the nation had escaped the financial crisis that had begun just months earlier. The unemployment rate back then was at about 8%…
May 24, 2024
The First National Calculation of Mortality of the US Homeless Population
…that provides the first national calculation of mortality for the US homeless population (Meyer et al. 2023). We calculate mortality by linking 139,000 adults recorded as sheltered and unsheltered homeless…
March 14, 2024
The Chipping Away at Safe Haven Laws
…baby, inquire about whether their relatives might want to care for the baby, and find out if the infant is of Native American ancestry. “How is this possible that this…
December 26, 2023
Safe-Injection Sites and Crime
…under medical supervision and on the neighborhoods where they are located—is thus of national significance. Other states, cities, and the federal government are doubtless closely watching these two experiments. That…
December 21, 2023
Our Policies to Address Homelessness Are Failing
…record for a single-year increase. Our homeless population is now the largest it has ever been. Policy-makers must wake up to this national crisis. Our current approach is broken, and…
December 18, 2023
No Excuses Now for NYCHA
…liked to blame the decline of what was once the nation’s best-managed public-housing system on someone who left office in 1989: Ronald Reagan. Now, thanks to the results of an…
November 21, 2023
Defining Poverty Up
…a National Academies of Sciences panel who published a report earlier this year titled “An Updated Measure of Poverty: (Re)Drawing the Line.” The authors proposed that the Census Bureau’s supplemental poverty…