Increasing Access to Homeownership: How America Can Increase Housing Affordability and Close the Racial Wealth Gap Urban Institute, August 24, 2021, 3-4pm EDT
Join the Urban Institute for a virtual event exploring data and research on why homeownership is so much more affordable than renting and a robust discussion of what can be done to increase access to homeownership. We will discuss what the government and organizations can do now by tapping into available resources.
Research Spotlight
Do Lawyers Matter? Early Evidence on Eviction Patterns After the Rollout of Universal Access to Counsel in New York City NYU Furman Center, August 4, 2021
This paper examines the effects of universal access to counsel (UAC) in the private rental market and finds that the ZIP Codes where UAC was initially rolled out (early UAC ZIP Codes) had higher rates of represented tenants and lower rates of executed warrants of eviction than ZIP Codes selected for UAC but prior to its implementation.
Equity Trade-Offs in the Design of COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Urban Institute, July 28, 2021
By elevating trade-offs and exploring how one set of local program leaders responded to competing priorities in their own communities, we hope to surface lessons that can inform both future rounds of federal relief policy and future iterations of local emergency assistance programs for policymakers across all levels of government.
