Policy Tag: Federal Policy
2026 Federal Housing Policy Preview
Author: David Garcia, Deputy Director of Policy After a surprising year of housing policy bipartisanship, lawmakers in Washington, DC are…
Reaffirming the Federal Commitment to Fair Housing: Lessons from California in Implementing AFFH
On January 19th, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released a new proposed Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing…
New Pathways to Create More Deeply Affordable Housing: Early Lessons from HUD’s Faircloth-to-RAD Program
Authors: Ben Metcalf, Managing Director David Garcia, Policy Director Chris Hacnik, Terner Affiliate Public housing in the United States provides…
Building Local Institutional Capacity: Lessons Learned from the Emergency Rental Assistance Program
Author: Elizabeth Kneebone Read the full paper here. The paper draws on interviews with 41 stakeholders with insights into the…
Biden Administration Steps Forward for Housing Supply
On May 16th, the White House released a plan to address the nation’s critical housing supply shortage. This plan—which included…
An Uneven Housing Safety Net: Disparities in the Disbursement of Emergency Rental Assistance and the Role of Local Institutional Capacity
Read the full paper here. Authors: Elizabeth Kneebone, Research Director Quinn Underriner, Data Scientist
Reducing Bias in Home Appraisals: The Roles for Policy and Technology
An appraisal assigns economic value to a home and is a key part of the process of selling, buying, or…
Addressing Homelessness Through Hotel Conversions
Read the full report here. Authors: Carolina Reid, Faculty Research Advisor Shazia Manji, Research Assistant Hayden Rosenberg, Graduate…
Taking Housing Solutions from the Near-Term Crisis to the Long-Term Crisis
It has been over a year-and-a-half since the U.S. economy lost over 20 million jobs in only a few months.…
Findings and Lessons from Two National Surveys of Landlords
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in profound economic hardship for the nation’s renters; the most recent Census Bureau Household Pulse…
