Learn how poverty is defined, why affordable housing can be difficult to find, how housing relates to health and more.

2024年10月25日 · It’s an important issue for the public, too: In a recent Pew Research Center survey, 69% of Americans said they were “very concerned” about the cost of housing, up from 61% in April 2023. But what counts as an “affordable” home, and how many Americans are struggling to afford a place to live?

Housing is the key to reducing intergenerational poverty and increasing economic mobility. Research shows that increasing access to affordable housing is the most cost-effective strategy for reducing childhood poverty and increasing economic mobility in the United States.

Research shows that without stable housing, children are more likely to struggle in school, and people of all ages are more likely to suffer from poor health outcomes. Racial disparities in housing have persisted for decades as government policies, programs, and inaction have prevented many Black Americans from securing safe, stable, and ...

The impact of poverty on young children is significant and long lasting. Poverty is associated with substandard housing, hunger, homelessness, inadequate childcare, unsafe neighborhoods, and under-resourced schools.

2016年6月26日 · Urban Institute research shows that increasing access to housing vouchers to a targeted group of about 2.6 million poor, rent-burdened households with children could reduce child poverty by as much as 21 percent (a bigger impact than we see by expanding transitional jobs, child support, the earned income tax credit, Supplemental Nutrition ...

The ultimate causes of homelessness are upstream, i.e. a profound lack of affordable housing due in large part to neo-liberal government austerity policies that prevent or limit public funding for housing, gentrification that displaces working and poor families, and growing income disparities that make paying the rent beyond the means of ...

2023年4月12日 · Between 2019 and 2021, the shortage of homes affordable and available to renters with extremely low incomes worsened by more than 500,000 units, increasing from a shortage of 6.8 million to 7.3 million, and continuing a long-term trend of diminishing supply.

2025年2月18日 · The Alliance for Housing Justice (AHJ) and the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) have released “Moving LIHTC Towards Social Housing,” a toolkit for advocates working for tenant-focused reforms within the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program. The toolkit focuses on how to do advocacy at the state level. While LIHTC is a federal program administered by the U.S.

2025年2月11日 · Housing choice vouchers reduce homelessness, 129 “Housing vouchers: Most effective way to reduce homelessness for families in shelters,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, accessed January 14, 2025. alleviate poverty, 130 Sophie Collyer et al., “Housing vouchers and tax credits: Pairing the proposal to transform Section 8 with ...