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News & Events
WEBINAR: Research Briefing on 21st Century SROs
Join NYU Furman Center researchers for a webinar briefing on Wednesday, April 18th from 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET.
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Research & Policy
Report Explores the Potential for Small Unit Housing in New York City
A new NYU Furman Center report makes the case for building new small-unit housing to more affordably accommodate New York City’s single-person, low-income households.
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Research & Policy
Report Explores How Small Area FMRs Would Affect Availability of Homes Affordable to Voucher Holders
New research finds that the 24 metros mandated by HUD to adopt Small Area Fair Market Rents would see an aggregate increase of more than 9% in the number of units affordable to voucher holders, though the impact will vary across local markets.
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Research & Policy
Report: More Than 30 Million People Live in U.S. Floodplains
With the future of the National Flood Insurance Program uncertain, data from NYU Furman Center’s FloodzoneData.us reveal details about the people and housing in the nation’s floodplains.
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Research & Policy
Policy Minute: The Potential Impact of Tax Reform on Homeowners
The looming overhaul of the federal tax code has important implications for housing affordability. This Policy Minute, the second in a series of two, focuses on the potential impacts proposed changes to the tax code may have for homeownership.
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Research & Policy
Policy Minute: The Potential Impact of Tax Reform on the Financing of Subsidized Housing
The looming overhaul of the federal tax code has important implications for housing affordability. This Policy Minute, the first in a series of two, focuses on how the House and Senate tax reform bills could affect state and local governments’ ability to finance the production or preservation of affordable housing.
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News & Events
New York City’s Upcoming Assessment of Fair Housing: Lessons from Other Cities
On Wednesday, November 29, 2017, the NYU Furman Center hosted an event broadcast nationally from NYU School of Law on the Assessment of Fair Housing (AFH) process that New York City and other jurisdictions must undertake over the next year.
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Research & Policy
NYU Furman Center Researchers at APPAM 2017 Annual Conference
NYU Furman Center researchers recently took part in the Association for Public Policy and Management (APPAM) 39th Annual Fall Research Conference in Chicago. The conference is a multi-disciplinary gathering that attracts the highest quality research on a variety of important current and emerging policy and management issues.
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Research & Policy
The Dream Revisited: Health and Segregation
The twenty-fifth discussion debates the significance of residential segregation as a social determinant of health and explores potential policy responses.
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Research & Policy
A Simple Tweak to the Federal Tax Code Would Support More Affordable Housing
Mark A. Willis, Senior Policy Fellow at the NYU Furman Center, argues that the use of tax-exempt private activity bonds with their as-of-right tax credits are critical for addressing the nation’s housing challenges. A simple tweak of federal tax law would allow this bonding authority to be used more effectively to preserve and create affordable housing.