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From:Business Lawyer (Vol. 49, Issue 3)The Dept of Housing and Urban Development has proposed new regulations regarding housing finance. The proposals will potentially effect escrow accounts, real estate appraisals, loans not secured by real estate,...
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From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 31, Issue 2)I. INTRODUCTION In 1960, my father bought the first home he ever owned. He was forty years old, with one child away at college and two still in high school. As a career military man, my father picked up his family...
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From:Journal of Property Management (Vol. 67, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedA new HUD policy seeks to increase the amount of access religious groups have to people who receive federal housing aid. The policy grants the nation's 3,200 local public housing authorities permission to institute an...
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From:Architecture (Vol. 85, Issue 1)An electronic tool developed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development encourages better planning by architects, government, and citizens. Community Connections, an electronic mapping and information...
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From:Urban Studies (Vol. 36, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedSummary. Housing policy formulation should be informed by a careful understanding of the behaviour of the urban housing market, as reflected by housing demand behaviour. Such basic information is important, not only for...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 52, Issue 37)"Race and Housing," Lake Forest College With Chicago's public housing as a backdrop, students in this course study the complex relationship between housing policy and race. In addition to reading extensively about...
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From:Washington University Journal of Law & Policy (Vol. 40)INTRODUCTION "Escap[ing] public housing projects" is a colloquial phrase describing the plight of people struggling to "escape" publicly subsidized housing projects and assistance programs. (1) This feat often...
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From:Appraisal Journal (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) is a government-sponsored incentive designed to promote the development of housing for people of low or moderate income. The appraisal of these properties requires an...
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From:Canadian Public Administration (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA major change in the low-income housing sector across nations has been the introduction of housing allowances (or vouchers/benefits) typically used on private rental markets. This change is a fundamental shift from...
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From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 20, Issue 22)To Dr. Victoria M. Basolo, a professor of urban planning at the University of California-Irvine, the desire to play a part in making sure all Americans have adequate housing motivated her to pursue an academic career in...
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From:Urban Studies ResearchPeer-ReviewedThe Housing Choice Voucher program (HCV) is a federally supported demand-side housing subsidy. According to HCV, eligible households are encouraged to secure affordable housing in favorable neighborhoods, including...
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From:Journal of Property Management (Vol. 67, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedWhen renting housing, what is and isn't fair? To assess how well the general public can distinguish lawful from unlawful Fair Housing practices, HUD, in conjunction with the Urban Institute, prepared the report Public...
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From:Journal of Property Management (Vol. 61, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe low-income housing tax-credit program has become the most common instrument for funding affordable multifamily apartments for moderate-income households since its introduction in 1986. Parties that want to take...
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From:Canadian Journal of Urban Research (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedResume Cet expose examine comment la provision de logement a bas prix est organisee au Canada, en examinant de pres les programmes nationaux en cooperatives d'habitation et logement sans but lucratif qui ont opere...
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From:Urban Studies (Vol. 36, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSummary. The standards of Hong Kong's public housing have been widely criticised and today housing improvement is a major on-going concern. The cost of redeveloping early public housing presses hard on the territory,...
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From:Architecture (Vol. 86, Issue 8)The federal government is tearing down high-rise projects to build garden apartments and village greens, but the poorest renters may not get a chance at this New Urbanist dream. For the past three years, the U.S....
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From:Journal of Property Management (Vol. 57, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedResidential property managers are generally mindful of housing laws, particularly in situations involving minorities, disabled people, and families with children. However, this may not be enough to prevent the filing of...
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From:Journal of Property Management (Vol. 66, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedUntil recently, public housing has often been viewed as the black sheep of the project management family. Urban blight, neglect and government mismanagement typically characterize this type of property. What's more,...
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From:Journal of Property Management (Vol. 66, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHUD has announced a new policy that will provide relief for federally-assisted renters in markets where housing is difficult to find. Low-income families under the Section 8 tenant-based program who receive vouchers...
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From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 44, Issue 2)ABSTRACT The simplicity of defining affordable housing at thirty percent of household income provides a uniform barometer by which to measure whether or not a family or individual is spending more than an acceptable...