Potential progress on housing mobility: HUD has issued an "Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking" to expand the use of the successful "Small Area Fair Market Rent" methodology for setting Housing Choice Voucher Rents in certain metro areas with high levels of Section 8 voucher concentration and clustering. Small Area FMRs, which originated from a 2007 civil rights lawsuit in … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (June 4, 2015): Small Area FMRs!
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PRRAC Update (May 30, 2013): Confronting suburban poverty
"Good News and Serious Challenges in Brookings Report on Suburban Poverty": The new book by Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube, Confronting Suburban Poverty in America, has received a lot of media attention in the past week. We decided to weigh in also -- read our commentary in the Huffington Post. Patrick Sharkey: For those of you who were shut out of our … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (May 30, 2013): Confronting suburban poverty
