LISC Institute for Community Power

Affordable Housing

Access to affordable, safe and healthy housing is essential. We’ve curated resources which lift up the on-going strategies to increase the supply of affordable housing and prevent homelessness.

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This report from the Democracy Collaborative offers strategies for putting more control of land and housing into the hands of community residents to minimize displacement and foster community participation and more equitable outcomes.

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The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) has released "The Gap", its annual report on rental housing affordability and availability for the nation’s extremely low-income households.

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Grounded Solutions and the Center for Mixed-Income Communities co-authored two reports which address how to incorporate racial equity into inclusionary housing policies, programs and practices.

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NLIHC, National Alliance to End Homelessness and the National League of Cities co-hosted a webinar to help housing practitioners and advocates understand how to use the benefits to set up non-congregate shelter programs.

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This new report, "COVID-19 Emergency Rental Assistance: Analysis of a National Survey of Programs", provides an analysis of key emergency rental assistance program design and implementation decisions from a national survey of over 200 program administrators.

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This toolkit from Enterprise highlights how owners can make their buildings first responders - able to address spikes in the virus and mitigate future hazards.

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Local Housing Solutions published a brief that highlights 10 policy tools localities can deploy when eviction moratoria expire, including emergency rental assistance, support for small landlords and how to increase access to counsel.

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From the archives

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Families thrive when they live in affordable, high quality and healthy housing. LISC created a green and healthy framework to integrate cost effective healthy and green practices into existing affordable housing rehabilitation and property management.

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