Link to the full Policy Brief The potential poverty-concentrating effect of increasing the project-based voucher cap Philip Tegeler and Nineveh O’Connell This policy brief addresses recent proposals to increase the percentage of Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs) that can be “project-based” (attached to specific properties). Our concern, based on the most recently available HUD … [Read more...] about TBV-PBV Concentration (April, 2025)
Publications
Moving LIHTC Towards Social Housing — A Toolkit
Link to the complete Toolkit Executive Summary The future of our housing system must be one that works for everyone. To that end, tenants, organizers and advocates are working towards a system of social housing. Social housing is permanently and deeply affordable, permanently removed from the for-profit market, and owned and controlled by public, non-profit, or community … [Read more...] about Moving LIHTC Towards Social Housing — A Toolkit
How States’ Low Income Housing Tax Credit Allocation Plans Can Help Increase Students’ Access to Integrated, Well-Resourced Schools (October 2024)
Link to the pdf of this brief How States’ Low Income Housing Tax Credit Allocation Plans Can Help Increase Students’ Access to Integrated, Well-Resourced Schools A Guide for Education Advocates1 70 years after the U.S. Supreme Court declared school segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education, American classrooms remain persistently isolated along racial … [Read more...] about How States’ Low Income Housing Tax Credit Allocation Plans Can Help Increase Students’ Access to Integrated, Well-Resourced Schools (October 2024)
Section 8 in the Courts: How Civil Rights Litigation Helped to Shape the Housing Choice Voucher Program (July 2024)
This article by Philip Tegeler and Sam Reece appears in Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research Volume 26, Number 2 • 2024 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development • Office of Policy Development and Research Abstract From its inception as the Section 8 Existing Housing program, the Housing Choice Voucher program has been informed by civil rights … [Read more...] about Section 8 in the Courts: How Civil Rights Litigation Helped to Shape the Housing Choice Voucher Program (July 2024)
Social Housing Goals in State Housing Allocation Plans — A 50-State Survey (December 2023)
By Robert Lindsay, Janelle Taylor, and Philip Tegeler Our federal housing policy continues to rely heavily on the private market and the immense capital at its disposal for the production of low income housing. But among government housing officials and across the broad network of non-profit housing professionals in the U.S., the belief in a “right to housing” is strong, … [Read more...] about Social Housing Goals in State Housing Allocation Plans — A 50-State Survey (December 2023)
