Drawing on qualitative interviews with a racially diverse sample of 46 homeowners in New Orleans and Chicago, we reveal how homeowners’ distrust in contractors shapes the character of home repair e...

What would it take to increase homeownership rates and close the racial homeownership gap in the U.S.? In this paper, a group of interdisciplinary housing policy scholars provide their collective i...

Filtering of housing units—the process through which housing units over time serve occupants with lower or higher incomes—is a primary source of low-cost housing supply in the United States. Howeve...

The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program has been one of the largest federal programs supporting lower-income communities, yet there have been few rigorous evaluations of whether it has...

Published in Housing Policy Debate (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2025)

Authors: Nick Revington and Alexander James David Wray  Published Online: 27 Jul 2022  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2022.2093939 ​

Opening up neighborhoods that offer greater opportunities for social mobility to low- and moderate-income households remains a challenge in the United States. Exclusionary zoning practices act as a...