Black households make up a disproportionate share of rent assistance recipients. Andrew Fenelon discusses how a “two-tiered approach to housing support," which has long favored white homeowners, helped create the disparity.
Before the 2000s, French real estate developers were prohibited from building social housing. Today, they build more than half of it. Julie Pollard shares how two seemingly unrelated policies came together to make this rapid shift possible.
In this episode, Shane combines insights from a recent trip to Tokyo with official data on housing production, affordability, land use policy, and more.
We take a trip to Tokyo with Professor Jiro Yoshida of Pennsylvania State University and the University of Tokyo to learn from the successes and shortcomings of Japanese housing policy.
Subsidized affordable housing development reduces costs for lower-income households directly. It also reduces costs indirectly, by increasing the overall supply of housing — or does it? Michael Eriksen joins to discuss the issue of “crowd out” in affordable housing production.
In this final episode of the Pathways Home series on homelessness policy and research, we discuss key lessons and takeaways with our UCLA colleague, Janey Rountree.
Since 2009, homelessness among U.S. veterans has fallen by more than half. Among the overall population, it hasn’t budged. We hear the story behind the Department of Veterans Affairs' success.
A study in Vancouver, BC gave homeless individuals $7,500 each. The results? Reduced shelter use, more spending on food and rent, and no increase in spending on “temptation goods” like drugs and alcohol.
Beth Shinn discusses the Family Options Study, which found that long-term housing subsidies, like housing vouchers, led to much better outcomes for families experiencing homelessness — and at similar cost — compared to rapid rehousing, transitional housing, and “usual care.”
Vehicular homelessness — people living in cars, trucks, and RVs — is a large and growing problem, but also a hidden one. Madeline Brozen shares her research on this understudied population.
