New Updates on The Edge

Message from PD&R Leadership:
New Access to Experimental Data Announced
HUD is hosting a competition for access to data sets from two important randomized social experiments, the Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing demonstration and the Family Options Study. Mark Shroder, Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research, Evaluation, and Monitoring, describes these evaluations and discusses how HUD’s partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau will make the data available to qualified researchers and more easily matched with other government records.

In Practice:
The Los Angeles Unified School District Provides Employee Housing in Sage Park Apartments
In April 2015, Sage Park Apartments opened on the Gardena High School campus with 90 units of affordable rental housing, a multipurpose center, and a facility used for the Los Angeles Police Department’s Juvenile Impact program. Sage Park Apartments was the first affordable development built on land owned by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) that helped to meet the goal of LAUSD’s Workforce Housing Initiative: to attract and retain employees by giving LAUSD staff members preference for the affordable housing units.

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