Fair Housing Reports

A complete listing of all our reports and publications can be found here.

Poster on Worst Case Housing Needs in Virginia
This 2004 poster on Worst Case Housing Needs in Virginia lists the top 10 jurisdictions in the state with worst case housing needs by both owner and renter households. The poster also shows maps of the number and percent of very low-income owners and renters with worst case housing needs by Virginia jurisdictions.

Poster on 2004 Center for Housing Research Projects
This poster summarizes the 2004-2006 Community Development Work Study Program and other recent Center projects. The poster also describes the Center's cababilities for serving communities with consulting on their housing needs and markets

Evaluation of the HUD Elder Cottage Housing Opportunity (ECHO) Program
A report 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, interviews with key groups, physical inspections of the ECHO units, a financial viability assessment, and findings and recommendations; 107 pages.

A Review of the Worst Case Housing Measure
Commissioned by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development,"A Review of the Worst Case Housing Measure" examines the concept of "housing need" and the worst-case housing needs measure and makes recommendations for improving the measure and possibly expanding its coverage; 51 pages.

Analyzing Neighborhood Retail and Service Change in Six Cities
Based on data from six U.S. cities,this report examines the relationships between changes in neighborhood retail and service establishments and independent variables measuring: demand from within the neighborhood; presence of negative externalities (e.g. public and other assisted housing, poverty, high school drop-outs, and population loss); and, discrimination due to race, household composition, or age of housing; 28 pages.

Partners in Housing: Virginia's Nonprofit Housing Sector
Nonprofit housing organizations primarily exist to address the housing needs of low-income Virginians. This survey, conducted in 1998 through the leadership of VHDA, revealed a nonprofit housing sector that is maturing into an important component of housing markets throughout the state; 29 pages.

Losing Ground in Virginia: The Unaffordability of Rental Housing for Low-Income Families in the 1990's
Across Virginia, low-income families face rents for decent quality apartments they cannot afford. This report on affordability of rental housing provides a rent burden index based on housing costs relative to income for Virginia cities and counties; 12 pages (access Map 1 and Map 2 separately).

Public Housing Resident Satisfaction Survey - Roanoke, 1998
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 tenant feedback to property managers; 17 pages.

Improving Management of Assisted Housing Through Tenant Feedback
This paper on tenant feedback was prepared for the 1998 Meeting of the International Sociological Association Research Committee 43, Housing and the Built Environment. The paper focuses on the development of tenant satisfaction feeback measures to improve management of assisted housing; 19 pages.

Housing Conditions of Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers
This report on migrant farmworker housing 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; 22 pages.

Tenant Organizations in Public Housing Projects
This report summarizes the history of tenant management in public housing, identifies benefits and weaknesses of tenant organizations and the regulations governing such organizations, describes activities of tenant organizations in Virginia, and discusses homeownerhsip opportunities for public housing residents; 26 pages.

The Tortuous Path to Nonprofit Development
This report on nonprofit development presents a detailed case study of the conversion of a vacant hotel to a SRO hotel for the formerly homeless; 22 pages.

Housing Conditions of Low-Income Families in the Private, Unassisted Housing Market: The National Evidence from the American Housing Survey
This report explores the differences in housing conditions between those U.S. families who receive various forms of public assistance and thosewho do not; 14 pages.

A Profile of Virginia's Nonprofit Housing Organizations, 1994
This report details the operations and services of a sample of nonprofit housing organizations in Virginia and their role in providing low-cost housing; 29 pages.