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Housing Solutions Lab and the Center for Justice Innovation Launch 2025 Housing Justice Peer Network
The NYU Furman Center’s Housing Solutions Lab (“the Lab”) and the Center for Justice Innovation (“the Center”) have selected eight communities to join the 2025 Housing Justice Peer Network — a 16-month-long program designed for housing and criminal justice agency leaders nationwide.
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Assessing the Environmental Arguments for and Against New Housing Development
The United States faces a critical housing shortage, particularly in housing that is affordable to moderate- and low-income households. Yet in the context of global climate change, residents and advocates may oppose new housing development. Our latest brief summarizes the existing evidence and highlights the need for more research and better frameworks to weigh the tradeoffs between sustainability, affordability, and housing supply.
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Local governments have a critical role to play in addressing the housing challenges faced by their residents. But with dozens of different local housing policies to consider, and unresolved questions about the relative responsibilities and resources of federal, state, and local government, it can be difficult to know where to start and how to structure an effective local housing strategy.
The LHS Housing Policy Framework categorizes more than 95 local housing policies into four functional areas. Use the framework to identify gaps in your housing strategy and policies to fill them.
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