The Permanent Affordability Commitment Together (PACT) program, created by New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) leveraging the federal Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program, was introduced to help renovate many public housing developments in dire need of restorations without placing the cost of such improvements solely on NYCHA.
Services in Housing: An Opportunity to Strengthen America's Public Health Infrastructure is a series of issue briefs that examine the role that housing-based services play in our public health infrastructure.
The harms exacted by the eviction process expand well beyond America’s families. Eviction has exceedingly destabilized the affordable housing industry at large, exacting a financial toll on the very developers and owners needed to preserve and expand the limited supply of subsidized, affordable housing.
Accessing capital is the most significant hurdle facing emerging small-scale Black, Indigenous and other people of color (BIPOC) real estate developers, and much of that challenge is rooted in the legacies of systemic racism.