FW: NLIHC Launches National Housing Preservation Database

[Megan DeCrappeo Bolton]

The National Low Income Housing Coalition, in partnership with the Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation, launched a website today that includes a property-level inventory of federally-assisted housing in the U.S.

 

Data from HUD on project-based Section 8 properties, properties with HUD-insured mortgages, LIHTC properties, HOME rental assistance and Public Housing was combined with data from the USDA on Rural Housing programs to create this comprehensive database. Please see below for more details and a link to this new resource. We plan to update this database 3 times a year.

 

Please feel free to contact me if you have questions.

 

Thanks,

MEGAN BOLTON | RESEARCH DIRECTOR
National Low Income Housing Coalition
727 15^th St NW, 6^th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20005
202.662.1530 x245

The National Low Income Housing Coalition is dedicated solely to achieving socially just public policy that assures people with the lowest incomes in the United States have affordable and decent homes. Learn more at www.nlihc.org.

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From: NLIHC [mailto:outr...@nlihc.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 1:32 PM
To: Megan DeCrappeo Bolton
Subject: NLIHC Launches National Housing Preservation Database

 

Power Your Preservation Efforts with an Innovative New Database! Keeping public and assisted housing affordable is a crucial part of our national strategy to prevent and end homelessness. But as an advocate for affordable housing, you know that this housing is at risk due to a variety of factors. Having comprehensive, up-to-date information about subsidy types, contract expiration dates and other factors is essential to the ability of advocates to intervene and preserve our vulnerable housing stock.   That’s why we created the National Housing Preservation Database. This is the first resource of its kind to integrate data from HUD and USDA into one property-level database at the national level. It’s a powerful tool that provides communities with the information necessary to effectively preserve the existing stock of public and assisted housing. The database is part of NLIHC’s longstanding, data-driven effort help preserve this vital supply of affordable rental homes.   This database launches today. Whether you are an advocate focused on preservation, or a researcher interested in learning more about the housing in a particular community, we believe this database will be of immense value to you. There is even a mapping tool that allows you to see where affordable housing is located in your community. Visit the database now at www.preservationdatabase.org.   We invite you to explore this new tool, and use the feedback functions it includes to let us know what you think, as well as to provide your specialized knowledge of the properties in your community. This database will be updated three times each year, and your expert input is crucial to ensuring the continued accuracy and usefulness of this data.   What’s more, beyond using our database, we encourage you to develop your own local preservation database on the foundation of our effort. For more information about creating a local database that includes properties with state and local subsidies from this larger database, feel free to contact Research Director Megan Bolton at me...@nlihc.org.

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