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29 October, 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.

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In August 2024, the National Alliance to End Homelessness’ Homelessness Research Institute hosted an event to share data and takeaways from its annual report, “The State of Homelessness.” The January 2023 HUD Point-in-Time count found more than 650,000 people nationwide experiencing homelessness, a record-high count largely driven by a 23 percent rise in rates of first-time homelessness between 2019 and 2023, with a disproportionate increase in the rate of homelessness experienced by people of color. Despite evidence showing that the homeless response system has been effective — fewer people returned to homelessness in 2023 compared with 2019 — the data show that affordable housing shortages for low-income groups continue to drive homelessness rates.

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PD&R LEADERSHIP

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Technical Assistance Innovations Help Communities Thrive

In the Leadership Message, Stephanie Stone, PD&R’s deputy assistant secretary for technical assistance, discusses the transformative role of HUD’s technical assistance initiatives in fostering innovation, advancing equity, and delivering meaningful outcomes in communities nationwide. HUD collaborates closely with state and local governments, public housing agencies, housing counseling agencies, Continuums of Care, tribes, nonprofit organizations, and others to leverage data-driven tools and enhance capacity-building efforts to drive innovation at every level.

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TRENDING

Location Patterns of Housing Choice Voucher Households Between 2010 and 2020
HUD began providing tenant-based rental assistance following the passage of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. This form of assistance enabled low-income households to use their assistance to seek rental housing in the private market through a program known today as the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program. Understanding locational outcomes for participating households is important for assessing program efficacy, with the most recent research, covering 2010 to 2020, revealing an increasing prevalence of HCV households with an elderly or disabled member relative to the number of households with children, increasing clustering of HCV households in neighborhoods with other HCV households, and stable levels of HCV households living in low-poverty versus high-poverty areas, though differences persist in urban versus suburban areas and across racial and ethnic categories.

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IN PRACTICE

Integrating Housing With Health Care in New Orleans, Louisiana
In New Orleans, H3C Apartments offers 192 units and a large community clinic in a development that combines affordable housing with improved access to health care. Developed in 2024 by Gulf Coast Housing Partnership (GCHP) and Alembic Community Development in partnership with Aetna, H3C is part of GCHP’s “Health + Housing” series of pilot projects. As part of the program, the Louisiana Public Health Institute is collecting data to monitor changes in residents’ health after moving into H3C, assessing health outcomes and healthcare costs relative to the general population, levels of social isolation, overall satisfaction, and quality-of-life outcomes. H3C will allow partners to better understand how permanent stable housing with supportive services can improve the health and wellbeing of low-income residents with high healthcare needs.

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INTERNATIONAL & PHILANTHROPIC SPOTLIGHT

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Housing and Gender-based Violence: Responses from the United States and Canada

In North America, the United States and Canada are working to identify solutions to the problem of gender-based violence, which the United Nations has found to impact one in eight women and girls globally who face sexual or physical violence. In the U.S., the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) included housing protections for the first time in 2005, with HUD establishing a Gender-Based Violence Prevention Office in response. Additional key provisions of the legislation include protection from discrimination for survivors of violence and abuse; notification of occupancy rights; emergency transfers; and confidentiality requirements for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking who are applying for or living in federally assisted housing. In Canada, although no specific national legislation addresses gender-based violence, the nation’s Criminal Code includes provisions that cover these issues. Action plans being implemented by both nations offer a strategic framework for combatting and addressing gender-based violence and providing for the housing needs of victims.

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