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Housing in the Nation's Capital 2006 (Research Report)Author(s): Margery Austin Turner,
G. Thomas Kingsley,
Kathryn L.S. Pettit,
Jennifer Comey,
Barika Williams,
Mark Woolley,
Jessica CignaThis is the fifth in a series of annual reports that analyzes the most current data on housing conditions and trends in the District of Columbia and the surrounding suburbs. This year's report focuses on linkages between housing and schools in the District of Columbia and the metropolitan region. The availability and quality of public schools play a critical role in shaping demand for housing, and, correspondingly, housing market trends shape school enrollment patterns. To explore these issues, this report reviews trends in housing and public school enrollment in the Washington region, with more in-depth coverage of the District's neighborhoods.
| Posted: October 25, 2006 | Availability: HTML |
Characteristics of Transitional Housing for Homeless Families: Final Report (Research Report)Author(s): Martha R. BurtThis report documents the characteristics of transitional housing programs for homeless families in five cities and their surrounding counties--Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, San Diego, and Seattle. It looks at housing and service configurations, entry criteria and program rules, client characteristics, outcomes, and performance documentation. Data were collected as the first stage in a project that is following families as they leave transitional housing programs and looking at the factors that influence their ability to find and keep housing, and avoid additional homelessness.
District of Columbia Housing Monitor: Fall 2006 (Research Report)Author(s): Peter A. TatianThe District of Columbia Housing Monitor provides a quarterly look at the Washington, D.C., housing market. Each report will use the most recent available data to illuminate housing market and affordable housing trends. In addition, each report will include a special focus section that will analyze, in greater depth, developments that are shaping the city's housing landscape. In this issue, the special section examines mortgage lending trends, including levels of subprime lending, in the city's nine wards.
| Posted: October 06, 2006 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
Report on D.C. Housing Finds More Signs of Market Slowdown (Press Release)Author(s): The Urban InstituteThe fall 2006 District of Columbia Housing Monitor offers further evidence that home sales in the District are cooling. The report also reviews trends in home mortgage lending in the city, including measures of subprime lending.
| Posted: October 06, 2006 | Availability: HTML |
Savings in America: Building Opportunities for All (Research Report)Author(s): Suzanne Nora Johnson,
Lisa Mensah,
C. Eugene SteuerleAssets are like ladders that can place low- and moderate-income (LMI) families in reach of opportunity. Moreover, increased saving benefits not just households but the economy overall. If every household with less than the median net worth saved an additional $1,000, it would add $56 billion to the economy. However, current U.S. savings policy directs the lion's share of $300 billion in annual subsidies for saving to households earning $50,000 and above who would likely save in any case--and still, the national saving rate fell to zero in 2005. This paper addresses barriers to saving among LMI households, such as asset tests in welfare and education policies and the targeting of subsidies to those households in the highest tax brackets.
| Posted: August 04, 2006 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
