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In a Federal Register Notice dated 4/13/12, Congress granted PD&R the authority to accept unsolicited research proposals and enter into research partnerships with outside entities. This authority allows PD&R to participate in innovative research projects that inform HUD’s policies and programs. The research partnerships require a 50 percent cost share that is funded by philanthropic organizations, other governmental agencies, or a combination of these entities. Proposals may also be submitted to ResearchPartnerships@hud.gov.

This year, PD&R is focusing its cooperative agreement efforts on research partnerships that will advance one of four key priorities: 1) gleaning knowledge from HUD demonstrations, 2) better understanding of how to utilize housing as a platform to improve a person’s quality of life, 3) increasing use of American Housing Survey data, and 4) making improvements to the state of housing technology.

For additional information, please contact ResearchPartnerships@hud.gov or call Kinnard Wright or Madlyn Wohlman-Rodriguez, Office of University Partnerships at (202) 708-3061 (this number is not toll-free). Questions may also be submitted by mail to Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of University Partnerships, 451 Seventh Street, SW, Room 8226, Washington, DC 20410, ATTENTION: Research Partnerships.


Federal Register Notice Announcing PD&R’s Research Partnerships

Message from the Assistant Secretary: PD&R Research Partnerships

Frequently Asked Questions on PD&R Research Partnerships


Recently Funded Proposals


Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Proposal Title

How Housing Affects Young Children

Proposal Description

The proposal tests hypotheses about housing-human development relationships — specifically, how housing affects young children in the context of their immediate and extended families, neighborhoods, and schools.

Urban Institute

Proposal Title

Mining MTO: Housing Assistance Leavers and Vulnerable Female Youth

Proposal Description

Use of MTO data to help answer the following research questions:
1) Why do families stop receiving federal housing assistance and how do they fare once they leave assistance?
2) Does a neighborhood’s coercive sexual environment influence outcomes for female adolescents?

Proposal Title

The Housing Opportunity and Services Together (HOST) Demonstration

Proposal Description

The HOST Demonstration is an ambitious effort to test strategies for using housing as a platform for services to improve the life chances of vulnerable youth and adults.

Boston Medical Center/Boston University

Proposal Title

Bringing Life Course Home: Improving Health Through Housing Stability and Support

Proposal Description

Project would evaluate the Healthy Start in Housing program, which is designed to improve access to housing for pregnant women who are at-risk of adverse birth outcomes and are either homeless or at-risk of becoming homeless.

Washington State Department of Social and Health Services

Proposal Title

Relationship between receipt of housing assistance and social health

Proposal Description

To link administrative data from WA State Dept. of HHS and the RDA with HUD to examine relationship with housing assistance and health systems.

Johns Hopkins/Harvard University

Proposal Title

Brokering the Geography of Opportunity: How Landlords Affect Access to Housing and Neighborhood Quality Among HUD Assisted Renters

Proposal Description

This proposal seeks matching funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to add a formative study of landlords who could potentially rent to HCV households in the Cleveland and Dallas metropolitan areas (by virtue of owning units renting at or below the Fair Market Rent (FMR)).

MDRC

Proposal Title

Re-Thinking FSS: A Plan for Building More Evidence on What Works to Improve Employment Outcomes and Economic Security for Recipients of Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers-Re-submission

Proposal Description

MDRC is requesting a grant to support special secondary data analyses and a related planning process to design a research demonstration project to test a new employment intervention for recipients of Housing Choice Vouchers.

CEO-SIF Mayors Fund of NYC

Proposal Title

Jobs-Plus Cost Study

Proposal Description

To conduct an analysis of the program costs for Jobs Plus, a successful employment program focused on Public Housing residents in NYC and San Antonio, TX, for replication in other areas of the country.

University of Florida/Shimberg Center

Proposal Title

Using Parcel and Household Data to Evaluate the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and Housing Choice Voucher Programs: Transportation, Crime, Education and Tenant Choice

Proposal Description

To conduct a series of studies evaluating neighborhood conditions for participants in the LIHTC and HCV programs in metropolitan Florida.

University of Maryland, Census Bureau, Harvard University

Proposal Title

The Impact of Children's Housing on Their Long-Term Economic Outcomes: Linking Intergenerational Labor Market Outcomes, Residential Mobility, and Neighborhood Quality for Households Receiving Housing Assistance

Proposal Description

Linking administrative data to better understand intergenerational labor market outcomes, residential mobility, and neighborhood quality for households receiving housing assistance.

Middlebury College USDA/ERS

Proposal Title

High Cost Lending in Rural America and the Great Recession

Proposal Description

Develop research partnership to broaden analysis of AHS Micro-Data detailing data on housing units to include interest rates, type and principal.

RAND

Proposal Title

Chicago Regional Housing Choice Initiative Evaluation

Proposal Description

To obtain data directly from HUD, listing households' SS# and relevant 50058 data.

Ohio State University

Proposal Title

Aging in Place: Managing the Use of Reverse Mortgages to Enable Housing Stability

Proposal Description

Expand current research with MacArthur Foundation to address early warning signs of financial housing instability for reverse mortgage borrowers. Can post-origination monitoring increase HECM origination and influence factors to housing stability and sub-optimal loans?