Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 29
Poor Families and Poor Housing: The Search for Decent Housing in Virginia's Private, Unassisted Market
(Virginia Center for Housing Research, 1993-06)
This report explores the differences in housing conditions between those U.S. families who receive various forms of public assistance and those who do not. The findings of this report show that low-income Virginians who ...
A Review of the Worst Case Housing Needs Measure
(Virginia Center for Housing Research, 2003-07)
This report is commissioned by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and examines the concept of "housing need" and the worst-case housing needs measure and makes recommendations for improving the measure and ...
Assessing Housing and Redevelopment Strategies, Portsmouth, Virginia
(Virginia Center for Housing Research, 2007-07)
The main report consists of two components 1) Housing and Redevelopment Opportunities and 2) Housing Redevelopment Strategies. The third component is a special analysis completed by Dr. Ted Koebel's graduate level planning ...
Evaluation of the HUD Elder Cottage Housing Opportunity (ECHO) Program
(Virginia Center for Housing Research, 2003-10)
This evaluation reports on the HUD demonstration program that provides a housing option for keeping elderly close to family or friends.. The evaluation included a review of background including zoning and land-use issues, ...
Housing Conditions of Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers
(Virginia Center for Housing Research, 1997-05)
This report determines the level of need for and interest in a housing loan program for migrant farmworker housing in Virginia and documents the housing conditions of migrant farmworkers in Virginia.
Losing Ground in Virginia: The Unaffordability of Rental Housing for Housing for Low-Income Families in the 1990's
(Virginia Center for Housing Research, 2014-06-09)
Housing is widely recognized as a necessity of life and it is also the single largest cost of living for most households. Since the cost of housing determines how much of other goods families can consume, affordable housing ...
Defining, Measuring, and Analyzing Community Reinvestment
(Virginia Center for Housing Research, 2014-06-09)
This report was prepared for the National Center for the Revitalization of Central Cities. The report is based on a statistical study of changes in residential investment in six cities between 1982 and 1992. This period ...
Resident Satisfaction Survey- Roanoke Housing Authority, 1998
(Virginia Center for Housing Research, 1999-06)
This report demonstrated the feasibility of a mailed survey of public housing tenants, with techniques that generated nearly a 40% response rate. This highly efficient and affordable procedure provides performance improving ...
Improving Management of Assisted Housing Through Tenant Feedback
(Virginia Center for Housing Research, 1998-07)
This report was prepared for the 1998 Meeting of the International Sociological Association Research Committee 43, Housing and the Built Environment, which focuses on the development of tenant satisfaction feedback measures. ...
Housing Demand Analysis, Northampton County, Virginia
(Virignia Center for Housing Research, 2007-06)
This report assesses the demand for affordable housing in Northampton County, Virginia. The assessment includes an analysis of the gap between the supply of affordable housing and the demand (or need) for such housing as ...