Update: To avoid overlap with the Renters and Rental Crisis Working Group newsletter, we are shifting this newsletter to Tuesdays! You can always check-out our updated website to see all of our newsletters in one place.
The Housing Crisis Research Collaborative seeks to engage researchers from groups, communities and geographic regions that have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially researchers of color, who are not based at institutions currently represented among the core Collaborative research partners.
We are seeking researchers to conduct research on the following topics that have been identified and prioritized in consultation with our network partners and respond to current knowledge gaps faced by federal, state and local policymakers:
Racial Equity and Rental Assistance
Eviction Prevention Programs
Renter Responses to Pandemic
Landlord Responses to Pandemic
Housing Preservation and Supply
The deadline for applications is Monday, June 21st.
The -Plex Paradox: Writing the Code to Undo Single-Family Zoning Terner Center, June 17, 2021
This webinar will analyze the ways planners in cities are introducing policies to loosen single-family zoning and how urban designers around California can prepare for what may be one of the major planning trends of the coming years.
Public Housing Programs Could Benefit from Greater Flexibility: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic Experience Urban Institute, May 5, 2021
This brief provides insights into how public housing authorities used additional flexibilities that became available through a series of HUD-issued regulatory and statutory waivers, and makes the case for the potential benefits for added flexibilities for the housing choice vouchers and public housing programs going forward.
Research Spotlight
Challenges and Opportunities for Hotel-to-Housing Conversions in New York City NYU Furman Center, June 2021
This report examines the legal regime governing hotel conversions to identify the most important regulatory barriers to such adaptive uses and better understand what opportunities for hotel conversion exist in New York City.
State of New York City's Housing and Neighborhoods in 2020 NYU Furman Center, May 2021
In this report the authors draw on detailed rent payment data to build an understanding of the experiences of renters in affordable housing in New York City, and by extension, the landlords that house them.
