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Examining Effects of Small Area Fair Market Rent on the Housing Choice Voucher Program

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Housing Choice Vouchers let residents choose housing units that meet rent and quality guidelines. Using a single metropolitan-wide standard to set the maximum subsidy for voucher holders can limit recipients’ access to neighborhoods with high-performing…
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Monitoring Flu Vaccination Coverage among Pregnant Women and Health Care Personnel

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Pregnant woman and health care personnel (HCP) need flu shots, yet coverage for these groups historically has been below national targets. Without shots, the groups’ health risks soar. Pregnant women who get the flu not only can contract severe diseases…
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The Cost of Administering the Housing Choice Voucher Program

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The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program is the federal government’s largest low-income housing assistance program. It gives 2.1 million households subsidies to rent units in the private market. The 2,300 public housing agencies (PHAs) that administer…
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SPECIATE: EPA's Repository of Volatile Organic Gas and Particulate Matter Speciation Profiles of Air Pollution Sources

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The SPECIATE database is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) repository of volatile organic gas and particulate matter (PM) speciation profiles of air pollution sources. The data are used to guide regulatory analysis and need to be kept up…
Collecting Infectious Disease Data in Nursing Homes

Collecting Infectious Disease Data in Nursing Homes

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Infectious diseases can spread quickly through nursing homes, leading to high morbidity and mortality in this vulnerable population. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored this, causing over 1.7 million SARS-CoV-2 cases and almost 168,000 deaths among nursing…
PRO Neighborhoods Program 2022 Annual Report

PRO Neighborhoods Program 2022 Annual Report

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The JPMorgan Chase-funded PRO Neighborhoods’ invests in grantees who use innovative solutions to address economic inequality; Abt evaluated the grantees’ work.
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Helping renters build assets and move out of poverty by scaling HUD’s best kept secret

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Compass Working Capital’s Markita Morris-Louis wrote about the impact of the Family Self-Sufficiency and Rent to Save programs for Brookings, and cited Abt’s evaluation of FSS.