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Policy Tag: National

Addressing Housing’s Critical Role as Infrastructure

Most Americans are painfully aware that the country’s physical assets—its infrastructure—are in bad shape and need new investments. The potential…

Communities and Regions

Crisis, Response, and Recovery: The Federal Government and the Black/White Homeownership Gap

  Author: Carolina K. Reid, Faculty Research Advisor Read the full paper. Read a blog from the author, which offers…

Homeownership

Building a Better Ladder of Housing Opportunity in the United States

Read the full framework brief here. Read the executive summary here.

Communities and Regions

Trump Is Clinging to an Outdated Version of the Suburbs

This piece was originally published in The Avenue by the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed earlier this week, President…

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Communities and Regions

COVID-19 and California’s Vulnerable Renters

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues unabated, another rent day has come and gone. But August 1st marked a new chapter in…

CA Households Job Loss Map
Rental Housing

Taking the Fairness Out of Fair Housing

President Trump’s recent tweets and his Administration’s abrupt withdrawal of vitally important fair housing regulations is a dangerous new low…

Regulations and Land Use

NAHREP and Terner Center Survey Highlights the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Small Landlords

While the U.S. faces a global pandemic the likes of which we have not seen in more than a century,…

Rental Housing

COVID-19: Housing-Focused Needs and Responses

As the COVID-19 pandemic and the efforts to slow its spread reshape life in the U.S., the economic impacts are…

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Rental Housing

A Plan to Keep Renters Housed Through the COVID-19 Recovery

With unemployment resulting from the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic soaring and the $484 billion stimulus package passed last week…

Rental Housing

Estimating COVID-19’s Near-Term Impact on Renters

As some states edge into week six of social distancing stay-at-home orders, and Unemployment Insurance (UI) claims average 5.5 million a week,…

Rental Housing