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14 May, 2024

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PD&R Edge, an online magazine, provides you with a snapshot view of our newly released research, periodicals, publications, news, and commentaries on housing and urban development issues.

Featured image Four panelists sit in front of a large screen that reads "PD&R Quarterly Update: How Local Governments Innovate to Meet Community Housing Needs."

On March 21, 2024, HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) hosted a PD&R Quarterly Update on local initiatives to increase affordable housing. One panel discussed Montgomery County’s revolving Housing Production Fund, which provides low-cost construction financing to develop mixed-income housing projects. A second panel discussed similar efforts in Atlanta and the states of California and Rhode Island to increase public production of affordable housing. Overall, the panelists were optimistic that local governments can alleviate their housing shortage using these production funds and other innovative policies.

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PD&R LEADERSHIP

Erin Browne.

Introducing Erin Browne, the new Economic and Market Analysis Division Director

In the Leadership Message, Erin Browne, the new director of PD&R’s Economic and Market Analysis Division (EMAD), introduces herself to PD&R Edge readers. Browne discusses her past roles and experience over 20 years working in EMAD, including stints in the Atlanta Regional Office and Tucson Field Office before coming to HUD headquarters, and shares what readers can expect from EMAD in the future.

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IN PRACTICE

Detroit’s Ruth Ellis Clairmount Center Redefines Supportive Housing for LGBTQ+ Youth
Opened in 2022, the Ruth Ellis Clairmount Center (REC Center) is a housing development offering 43 supportive housing units for LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness in Detroit. The REC Center is named after Ruth Ellis, a Black lesbian who pioneered LGBTQ+ rights and offered her home as a safe haven for LGBTQ+ youth in the 1940s. Guided by the Housing First model, the REC Center applies four core principles in serving LGBTQ+ youth: trauma-informed care, harm reduction, restorative justice, and positive youth development.

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TRENDING

Findings from Two Longitudinal Surveys on Race, Ethnicity, and Neighborhood Out-Migration
In the Trending article, PD&R Housing and Demographic Analysis Division survey statistician Peter J. Mateyka provides an overview of a recent article he co-authored on neighborhood out-migration. Using longitudinal surveys, the study tests and validates the hypothesis that White households tend to move out of a neighborhood as the proportion of racial and ethnic minorities living in the neighborhood increases. This and other study findings have implications for HUD’s commitment to fair housing.

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SPOTLIGHT ON PD&R DATA

Bar graph depicting the difference between HUD Income Limits and actual ACS income from 2008–2022.

An Evaluation of HUD’s Accuracy in Calculating Income Limits

PD&R economist Jess Remington discusses her recent analysis of the accuracy of HUD’s calculations of income limits. She finds that estimates for median family income limits and very low-income limits are roughly accurate and have improved in accuracy over time. She recommends that HUD could use an alternative data source to calculate inflation and that HUD could assess how the accuracy of income limit calculations is affected by the 10 percent cap on income limit increases.

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