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Households around the U.S. face growing housing affordability challenges. While there are important roles for the federal and state governments to play in addressing this problem, many of the most critical policy solutions can only be adopted at the…

In 2015, HUD rolled out the Assessment of Fair Housing which included a new rigorous and mandatory process for data analysis, mapping, and strategy development  to help grantees make meaningful change and affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH). Abt…

Family Self Sufficiency (FSS) is a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program designed to help housing assistance recipients increase their earnings and build savings to make progress toward economic security. The standard FSS program…

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program provides voucher subsidies that enables low-income households to select the type of housing and location that meets their needs. However, the HCV program…

More than 2.3 million households participate in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Housing Choice Voucher program, and almost a million of these households are comprised of families with children. With these vouchers, families…

An important knowledge gap exists with respect to the role that housing assistance plays in promoting economic self-sufficiency among welfare recipients.  To fill this gap, Congress appropriated funds for Section 8 tenant-based assistance to help…

Supportive Services for Veterans Families (SSVF) is a Veterans Affairs program that provides grants to more than 250 private, non-profit organizations (grantees) and consumer cooperatives that rapidly re-house low-income Veteran households.

Abt Global is evaluating an initiative by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to end long-term homelessness in Los Angeles County, which as one of the largest homeless populations in the nation. Under the initiative, the foundation is supporting efforts to: …

Under federal law enacted in the 1990s, a limited number of public housing agencies (PHAs) have received demonstration authority under which they may experiment with alternatives to the standard rules under which the Housing Choice Voucher and public…

More than 2 million units of rental housing have been developed through the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program, making it the largest housing production program in U.S. history. As thousands of properties hit the 15-year mark—ending the…