Vacancy, Blight, and the “Appraisal Gap”
At Least Half of Homes ‘Seriously Underwater’ in These Zip Codes - Alexandre Tanzi, Bloomberg, February 7, 2019
The Two Vacancy Crises in America’s Cities - Alan Mallach, Shelterforce, November 13, 2018
Vacant Properties Plague Struggling US Cities, According to New Report - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Lincoln House Blog, May 15, 2018
Life, Death, and Demolition - Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, Feb. 2, 2017
Mapping Blight At The Parcel Level In Cleveland, Columbus And Cincinnati - JPMorganChase Voice, Forbes, June 7, 2017
Cleveland Mapping Charts Impact of Blight - Rachel Dovey, Next City, June 7, 2017
Shining a Light on Cities’ Abandoned Buildings, From the Inside Out [with a Letter to the Editor by NHIA co-founder Carey Shea] - Jane Gottlieb, New York Times, Nov. 25, 2016
Charting the Multiple Meanings of Blight: A National Literature Review Addressing Community Impacts of Blighted Properties - Vacant Properties Research Network/Keep America Beautiful, May 2015
A Survey of Small Developers of Vacant Homes in BRNI-Targeted Neighborhoods [A case study from Baltimore] - Baltimore Regional Neighborhood Initiative Partners
The Value of "Middle Neighborhoods"
Across The Country, Some Neighborhoods Are Thriving And Some Struggling, But What About The Ones That Fall Somewhere In The Middle? - D. Evans & P. Brophy, Huffington Post, July 27, 2017
Community Development Investment Review - Paul Brophy, Ed. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2016
Segregation, Poverty, and Inequality
Lenders, GSEs must work together to support homeownership gains among African-Americans - Charmaine Brown, The Home Story (Fannie Mae), September 11, 2017
No Going Back to Normal: Rebuilding Baltimore City after the Uprising - Gary Williams and Steve Holt, Nonprofit Quarterly, July 31, 2017
Program to Spur Low-Income Housing Is Keeping Cities Segregated - John Eligon, Yamiche Alcindor, and Agustin Armendariz, New York Times, July 2, 2017
Why is America's Housing so Segregated? - The Century Foundation, May 5, 2016
The Intersection of Race, Place, and Multidimensional Poverty - Brookings Institution, April 21, 2016
Homeownership and Community Revitalization
Housing Shortage About Quality and Quantity - Todd Von Kampen, The North Platte Telegraph, September 25, 2018
Does Clark County Need New Housing to be Successful? - Matt Sanctis, Springfield News Sun, January 28, 2018
Single-Family Landlords Are Sinking Cash Into Rust Belt Rentals - Patrick Clark, Bloomberg, July 25, 2017
Wall Street Veterans Bet on Low-Income Home Buyers - New York Times, April 18, 2016
Leadership and Promising Approaches
Regional US central bankers turn their focus to Main Street - Rana Foroohar, Financial Times, Dec. 30, 2018
Vacants to Value: Baltimore’s bold blight-elimination effort is making modest progress despite limited renovation funds and questionable accounting - Joan Jacobson, New York Times, Feb. 21, 2016
Opportunities and Gaps in Current Federal Funding
CDFA Annual Volume Cap Report: An Analysis of 2016 Private Activity Bond & Volume Cap Trends [See pp. 8-9 for state-by-state comparisons] - Council of Development Finance Agencies, 2017
Community Planning and Development Program Formula Allocations for FY 2017 [Includes state-by-state allocations of CDBG and HOME funds] - US Department of Housing and Urban Development