At Home dives into our latest research and expert insights on housing, communities, and asset building. Enjoy this issue and check out more on our website.
New findings from Project Roomkey (PRK), California’s statewide initiative to address homelessness at COVID’s peak, show the program could serve as an effective emergency housing model. PRK provided emergency housing and services in hotels and motels to more than 62,000 medically vulnerable people—many of whom were 65 years or older—while incorporating health services and seeing above average rates of participants exiting to permanent housing. Read the findings.
From creating stability in the community to providing a platform for building generational wealth, housing is a vital component of equitable development. A new report for JP Morgan Chase shares examples of innovative and strategic housing programs that have successfully helped people build wealth through homeownership, emerging local developers build their businesses and capacity, and communities own land through the community land trust model. Learn more.
The pandemic’s child tax credit legislation demonstrated cash could lift families and children out of poverty. Now, writes Hannah Thomas, is the time for policymakers to examine how the dose and duration of cash assistance could provide a transformative path to economic mobility for families. Read more.
The Housing Choice Voucher program helps low-income families avoid homelessness and achieve stable housing, but the program has bureaucratic processes that can be demeaning for participants and burdensome for administrators. A new paper suggests testing an alternative model in which housing assistance payments go to households instead of to landlords. Learn more.
How do health and housing intersect to improve and reinforce good outcomes? Elizabeth Giardino and Stephanie Frost examine how public programs and interventions can drive systems-level change across neighborhoods and communities. Take a look.
With Mental Health Awareness Month upon us, Tamara Daley reflects on a recent exchange with an unhoused community member, and how it served as a first-hand reminder that the preservation of mental health demands a home. Read more.
Staff Spotlight
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How can communities design future transportation and mobility options while making them resilient to the effects of climate hazards? In partnership with U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development—and featuring local projects in Arizona, Colorado, and New Jersey—our latest user-friendly guide helps municipalities design and strengthen their transportation infrastructure for safer, more secure communities. Read more.
Congratulations to Abt’s interdisciplinary team recently tapped by the U.S. Department of Transportation to help local communities transform their neighborhoods to address local needs and drive their economic development, health, environment, mobility, and access goals.
Abt Experts In the News
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