Federal Housing Policy

White Papers/Regulatory Guidances

• White Paper: Pushing Back on Homeownership
  Summarizes recent third-party research raising concerns about the nation's aggressive homeownership incentives. (March 2005)

Research Reports

Third-party Guidance, Advisories, and Resources

• HousingPolicy.org
  Online guide to state and local housing policy developed by the Center for Housing Policy. This site provides information on a broad range of state and local housing policy tools, as well as guidance on how to put individual policies together into a comprehensive housing strategy.

Hot Links

• Harvard University: Workforce Development and Rental Policy: How Can What We Know Inform Next Steps
  How rental housing policy could be redesigned to enhance workforce development and other programs based on a richer understanding of the drivers of poverty.

• Harvard University: Taking Stock of the Nation's Rental Housing Challenges and a Half Century of Public Policy Responses
  The primary problems generated by the operation of rental markets, why addressing these problems is important, what factors contribute to the generation of these problems, and how policies and programs have (or have not) tried to deal with them.