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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.
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Research & Policy
Report: In U.S. Metros, More High-Income and Educated Households Opting to Rent
NYU Furman Center’s 2017 National Rental Housing Landscape finds that the majority of large U.S. metros saw an increase in the share of households that rented their homes, which was largely driven by rise in higher-income and highly-educated households choosing to rent. Affordability challenges persist for low-income households, with high rent premiums for movers and historically high rent burdens across U.S. metros.
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Research & Policy
2017 National Rental Housing Landscape
The report, released annually by the NYU Furman Center, explores rental housing market trends in America’s 53 largest metros.
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Research & Policy
Housing a Nation: Housing Choice Vouchers
The ‘Housing a Nation’ Policy Minute series summarizes timely research on the largest federal subsidies for the development and preservation of affordable housing and sheds light on how these subsidies operate in jurisdictions across the U.S. This edition focuses on the nation’s Housing Choice Voucher program, a rental subsidy that expands the rental options of low-income families by providing the opportunity to access market-rate units in a broad range of neighborhoods.
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Research & Policy
The Dream Revisited: Policing and Segregation
The twenty-fourth discussion examines the links between policing practices such as “stop and frisk” and race and class segregation and explores potential policy responses.