The What Works Collaborative is a foundation-supported partnership that conducts timely research and analysis to help inform the implementation of an evidence-based housing and urban policy agenda.
Our goal is to build knowledge and share solutions with policymakers at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and other federal agencies.
The collaborative has undertaken more than two dozen independent research projects that focus on HUD's strategic goals.
Currently, the Collaborative is surfacing critical questions for policy research, engaging stakeholders in the field of housing policy, and working to help funders identify and conceptualize a research agenda that will help move policy and practice forward. This research agenda will lead to several incubator research initiatives by the end of 2011.
Reports
Revitalizing Distressed Older Suburbs
Kathryn W. Hexter, Edward W. Hill, Brian A. Mikelbank, Benjamin Y. Clark, Charles Post
Towards Evidence-Based Sustainable Communities: Report on Survey of Urban Sustainability Centers in U.S. Universities
Hilda Blanco, Genevieve Giuliano
Rental Market Stresses: Impacts of the Great Recession on Affordability and Multifamily Lending
Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University
Cutting Carbon Costs: Learning from Germany's Energy Saving Program
Anne Power, Monika Zulauf
Opportunity-Rich Schools and Sustainable Communities: Seven Steps to Align High-Quality Education with Innovations in City and Metropolitan Planning and Development
Deborah L. McKoy, Jeffrey M. Vincent, and Ariel H. Bierbaum
The Potential for Public-Private Partnerships: Philanthropic Leaders Housing as a Platform
M. Katherine Kraft, Rebecca R. Riley
The Federal Role in Supporting Urban Manufacturing
Nisha Mistry, Joan Byron
Vibrant Neighborhoods, Successful Schools: What the Federal Government Can Do to Foster Both
Margery Austin Turner, Alan Berube
Long-Term Low Income Housing Tax Credit Policy Questions
Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University
Scaling the Nationwide Energy Retrofit of Affordable Multifamily Housing: Innovations and Policy Recommendations
Lori Bamberger
Building Environmentally Sustainable Communities: A Framework for Inclusivity
Vicki Been, Mary Cunningham, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Adam Gordon, Joe Parilla, Margery Austin Turner, Sheryl Verlaine Whitney, Aaron Yowell, and Ken Zimmerman
Seeking Sustainable and Inclusive Communities: A King County Case Study
Sheryl Verlaine Whitney
Urban Policy in the Carter Administration
G. Thomas Kingsley and Karina Fortuny
Improving U.S. Housing Finance through Reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Assessing the Options
Ingrid Gould Ellen, John Napier Tye, and Mark A. Willis
The Disruption of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program: Causes, Consequences, Responses, and Proposed Correctives
Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University
Monitoring Success in Choice Neighborhoods: A Proposed Approach to Performance Measurement
Robin E. Smith, G. Thomas Kingsley, Mary K. Cunningham, Susan J. Popkin, Kassie Dumlao, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Mark Joseph, and Deborah McKoy
Reforming the Mortgage Interest Deduction
Eric Toder, Margery Austin Turner, Katherine Lim, and Liza Getsinger
Facing the Urban Challenge: The Federal Government and America's Older Distressed Cities
Alan Mallach
Federal Post-Disaster Recovery: A Review of Federal Programs
Amy Liu
The Resident Choice Option: Reasons Why Residents Change from Project-Based Vouchers to Portable Housing Vouchers
Mary K. Cunningham and Molly M. Scott
Improving Neighborhood Location Outcomes in the Housing Choice Voucher Program: A Scan of Mobility Assistance Programs
Mary K. Cunningham, Molly M. Scott, Chris Narducci, Sam Hall, Alexandra Stanczyk
What Do We Know About Housing Choice Voucher Program Location Outcomes?
Martha Galvez
Challenges and Policy Options for Creating and Preserving Affordable Housing near Transit and in Other Location-Efficient Areas
Rick Haughey, Ryan Sherriff
Connecting Residents of Subsidized Housing with Mainstream Supportive Services: Challenges and Recommendations
Rebecca Cohen
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