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PD&R Quarterly Update: Source of Income Discrimination

On Thursday, July 25, 2024, HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research (PD&R) will host a Quarterly Update on source of income discrimination and laws. Over the past two decades, evidence of discrimination against housing choice voucher holders has grown. More than half of voucher households live in states and localities that have adopted ordinances to prevent this kind of discrimination. This event will bring together researchers, municipal and state government officials, and fair housing practitioners to share insights into the recent passage of local anti-discrimination ordinances, evaluate research about the impacts of these anti-discrimination laws, and discuss challenges to enforcing these ordinances.

Data Spotlight

• Veronica Helms Garrison, Analyst, PD&R/HUD

Panel Discussion: Overview of Source of Income Protections and What the Research Tells Us About Their Effectiveness

• Martha Galvez, Executive Director, Housing Solutions Lab at the Furman Center, NYU

• Philip Tegeler, Executive Director, Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC)

• Dan Teles, Principal Research Associate, Urban Institute

Panel Discussion: Lessons from State and Local Implementation

• Adria Crutchfield, Executive Director, Baltimore Regional Housing Partnership

• Sandra Park, Chief of the Civil Rights Bureau, New York State Office of the Attorney General

• Manon Vergerio, Co-Founder and Head of Data & Advocacy, Unlock NYC

Register to attend via webcast or in person at HUD Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Eviction Protection Grant Program: $40 Million Available for Legal Assistance

The Eviction Protection Grant Program, first launched in 2021, supports experienced legal service providers in providing no cost legal assistance to low-income tenants at risk of or subject to eviction. New grant funds totaling $40 million are now available to eligible nonprofit or governmental entities, such as legal aid organizations; bar associations; legal clinics; institutions of higher education; housing counseling or other social service organizations that provide legal assistance; and local, state, or tribal agencies or courts.

The goal of the Eviction Protection Grant Program is to increase housing stability for low-income tenants through:

• Prevention: helping tenants avert eviction and prevent eviction filings.

• Justice: helping tenants exercise and enforce their housing and civil rights and ensure the legal process during eviction is fair.

• Diversion: increasing tenant access to, and participation in, non-adversarial resolutions outside the court system.

• Relief: helping tenants avoid the harmful consequences of eviction and gain access to stabilizing resources.

Grantees will also participate in research conducted by HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) and will be expected to collect and submit data on services provided and associated outcomes.

For more information on the Eviction Protection Grant Program, please visit: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/eviction-protection-grant.html

How to Apply
PD&R is anticipating making approximately 25 awards of $500,000 to $2,500,000 each, with a total of $40,000,000 in grant funds available. We expect to award at least half of the funds available to applicants who did not receive FY 2021 or FY 2022 Eviction Protection Grant Program funds as an awardee or subrecipient.

For more information about how to submit an application, please visit: https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/cfo/gmomgmt/grantsinfo/fundingopps

We encourage you to apply or spread the word of this opportunity throughout your networks. The deadline to submit an application is August 20, 2024.

Call For Papers: Cityscape Symposium on Housing for Those Who Have Served in Our Military

In 2025, Cityscape intends to publish several articles in a symposium that explore research on housing for U.S. military Veterans and their families. We seek quality studies across a broad range of areas related but not limited to: housing instability, supported housing or other publicly subsidized housing, individual or policy-level housing interventions, and other housing-related topics that include Veterans. A central goal is to identify a collection of papers that examine housing for Veterans from multiple disciplines and topics. Papers may be from any discipline but broad enough for a multidisciplinary audience. We are especially interested in articles that are not dedicated to health outcomes. Articles must be original work not published elsewhere.

Papers deemed appropriate for the symposium will be peer reviewed and may need to be revised and resubmitted before a final decision on publication is made. To be considered for the Cityscape symposium on Housing for Those Who Have Served in Our Military, proposals are due by December 1, 2024. For those invited to submit, full manuscript submissions will be expected by May 1, 2025.

For consideration, submit abstracts to both of the following email addresses: jack.tsai@uth.tmc.edu and shunter@rand.org.

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