Relevant Publications

Vacancy, Blight, and Distress

• The Two Vacancy Crises in America’s Cities - Alan Mallach, Shelterforce, November 13, 2018

• A Survey of Small Developers of Vacant Homes in BRNI-Targeted Neighborhoods - JoAnn Copes, Baltimore Regional Neighborhood Initiative Partners

• Charting the Multiple Meanings of Blight: A National Literature Review on Addressing the Community Impacts of Blighted Properties - Vacant Properties Research Network, Keep America Beautiful, May 2015

• 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

Segregation, Poverty, and Inequality

• Why is America's Housing so Segregated - The Century Foundation

• The Intersection of Race, Place, and Multidimensional Poverty - Brookings

• The Racist Roots of a Way to Sell Homes - The Editorial Board, New York Times, April 29, 2016

• Lenders, GSEs must work together to support homeownership gains among African-Americans - Charmaine Brown, The Home Story (Fannie Mae), September 11, 2017

• Program to Spur Low-Income Housing Is Keeping Cities Segregated - John Eligon, Yamiche Alcindor, and Agustin Armendariz, New York Times, July 2, 2017

• No Going Back to Normal: Rebuilding Baltimore City after the Uprising - Gary Williams and Steve Holt, Nonprofit Quarterly, July 31, 2017

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? - Rep. Dwight Evans and Paul C. Brophy, Huffington Post, July 27, 2017

• Community Development Investment Review - Paul C. Brophy, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Rental vs. Homeownership

• Housing Shortage About Quality and Quantity - Todd Von Kampen, The North Platte Telegraph, Sept. 25, 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

• This Mayor Wants to Give Struggling Cities a Front-Row Seat in D.C. [A profile of Braddock, PA Mayor John Fetterman] - Jake Blumgart, NextCity, April 11, 2016

• Policy Proposals for Older Industrial Cities - Housing Partnership Network and National Community Stabilization Trust

Current Federal Funding Relevant to NHIA

• 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

• 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

Maps

To access NHIA, a neighborhood (census tract) would have to satisfy the following three criteria: 

-Tract poverty rate >130% of area poverty rate

-Tract median family income < 80% of area median family income

-Tract median home value < 100% of area median home value

The maps below offer a few examples of NHIA eligibility by census tract in several US Metro Areas.