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Date: March 2025
Key Topic: Housing
Type: Research report
Source Credit: Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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Report: Improving America's Housing 2025
File Type: Web page
Description: A report highlighting the persistent disparities in spending, challenges such as labor shortages and industry fragmentation, and the pressing need for investments in energy efficiency, disaster resilience, and accessibility to modernize the nation's aging housing stock.
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Date: October 2024
Key Topic: Heirs' Property
Type: Article / Podcast
Source Credit: NPR
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Article: Millions of low-cost homes are deteriorating
File Type: Web page
Description: An article highlighting the growing number of older homes that are deteriorating, with a spotlight of efforts including PA's Whole Home Repairs program.
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Date: October 2024
Key Topic: Heirs' Property
Type: Blog Post / Fact Sheet
Source Credit: Urban Institute
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Blog Post: Break Down Barriers to Estate Planning
File Type: Web page
Description: A blog post emphasizing the need for policy reform to dismantle barriers to estate planning and thereby helping close the racial wealth and homeownership gaps.
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Date: August 2024
Key Topic: Home Repair Programs
Type: Report
Source Credit: Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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Report: Catalyzing a Movement to Improve Housing Conditions through Home Repair
File Type: Web page
Description: This paper reviews the range of evidence regarding contemporary US housing conditions and physical performance, the effectiveness of home repairs, and the current landscape of public- and civil sector programs that provide repairs, and the evolving advocacy that has established these programs.
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Date: March 2024
Key Topic: Aging Veterans
Type: Report
Source Credit: National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
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Report: The Housing Needs of Aging Veterans
File Type: Web page
Description: This report highlights the specific housing needs of aging veterans (those 50 and over), identifies challenges and proposes solutions to the gaps in the system of care.
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Date: February 2024
Key Topic: Heirs' Property
Type: Webinar Series
Source Credit: Rural LISC
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Webinar: Untangling Heirs' Property
File Type: Web page
Description: The impact of heirs' property on homeownership, the broader consequences for wealth accumulation, and potential solutions.
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Date: February 2024
Key Topic: Advocacy
Type: Publications
Source Credit: National Low Income Housing Coalition
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Resource: Advocates' Guide '24
File Type: Web page
Description: An overview of housing programs and advocacy tools to advocate effectively for socially just housing policy.
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Date: February 2024
Key Topic: Housing Policy
Type: Newspaper
Source Credit: Spotlight PA
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Webinar: Panel on Whole Home Repairs
File Type: Web page
Description: Panelists discussed the program’s first year and the prospects of more funding.
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Date: November 2023
Key Topic: Older Adults
Type: Report, Publications
Source Credit: Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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Report: Housing America's Older Adults
File Type: Web page
Description: This report uniquely considers housing and the cost of care as a dual burden for older adults.
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Date: July 2022
Key Topic: Older Adults
Type: Publications
Source Credit: Caring.com
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Report: Home Modeling Guide for Seniors
File Type: Web page
Description: This web page includes planning resources to undertake a home modification project for older adults.
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