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Date: October 2025
Key Topic: Housing Policy
Type: Fact Sheet
Source Credit: National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders in partnership with The Center for Affordable Housing Lending
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Fact Sheet: Essential Funding for Essential Housing
File Type: Web page
Description: Outlines how federal funding underpins affordable housing development and operation, emphasizing that interruptions in HUD and USDA programs can derail construction, preservation, and housing stability.
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Date: July 2025
Key Topic: Home Repair
Type: Fact Sheets
Source Credit: Coalition for Home Repair
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Fact Sheets: Housing and Home Repair 2025
File Type: PDFs
Description: State-specific home repair fact sheets highlighting key housing needs and vulnerabilities to support advocacy, grant writing, and/or partnership development.
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Date: 2025
Key Topic: Rural Investment
Type: Guide
Source Credit: Partners for Rural Transformation
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Report: Rural Funding Guide
File Type: PDF
Description: A guide containing eight actionable practices to transform and inform how public and private funders invest in rural prosperity.
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Date: 2020
Key Topic: CDFIs, Persistent Poverty
Type: Report
Source Credit: Partners for Rural Transformation
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Report: How CDFIs Drive Economic Opportunity
File Type: Web page
Description: A report detailing the structural exclusion and deep distress of persistent poverty counties and calls for urgent investment in local CDFIs to scale effective community and economic development solutions.
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Date: April 2025
Key Topic: Rural Housing
Type: Report
Source Credit: Consumer Federation of America
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Report: Rural Homeownership Challenges: A Perspective from Eastern Kentucky
File Type: Web page
Description: A report highlighting the urgent need to rehabilitate Eastern Kentucky's aging housing stock, underscoring how widespread repair needs, paired with financing barriers, pose a major obstacle to affordable homeownership in rural communities.
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Date: March 2025
Key Topic: Housing
Type: Research report
Source Credit: Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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Report: Improving America's Housing 2025
File Type: Web page
Description: A report highlighting the persistent disparities in spending, challenges such as labor shortages and industry fragmentation, and the pressing need for investments in energy efficiency, disaster resilience, and accessibility to modernize the nation's aging housing stock.
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Date: October 2024
Key Topic: Heirs' Property
Type: Article / Podcast
Source Credit: NPR
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Article: Millions of low-cost homes are deteriorating
File Type: Web page
Description: An article highlighting the growing number of older homes that are deteriorating, with a spotlight of efforts including PA's Whole Home Repairs program.
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Date: October 2024
Key Topic: Heirs' Property
Type: Blog Post / Fact Sheet
Source Credit: Urban Institute
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Blog Post: Break Down Barriers to Estate Planning
File Type: Web page
Description: A blog post emphasizing the need for policy reform to dismantle barriers to estate planning and thereby helping close the racial wealth and homeownership gaps.
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Date: August 2024
Key Topic: Home Repair Programs
Type: Report
Source Credit: Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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Report: Catalyzing a Movement to Improve Housing Conditions through Home Repair
File Type: Web page
Description: This paper reviews the range of evidence regarding contemporary US housing conditions and physical performance, the effectiveness of home repairs, and the current landscape of public- and civil sector programs that provide repairs, and the evolving advocacy that has established these programs.
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Date: March 2024
Key Topic: Aging Veterans
Type: Report
Source Credit: National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
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Report: The Housing Needs of Aging Veterans
File Type: Web page
Description: This report highlights the specific housing needs of aging veterans (those 50 and over), identifies challenges and proposes solutions to the gaps in the system of care.
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Date: February 2024
Key Topic: Heirs' Property
Type: Webinar Series
Source Credit: Rural LISC
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Webinar: Untangling Heirs' Property
File Type: Web page
Description: The impact of heirs' property on homeownership, the broader consequences for wealth accumulation, and potential solutions.
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Date: February 2024
Key Topic: Advocacy
Type: Publications
Source Credit: National Low Income Housing Coalition
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Resource: Advocates' Guide '24
File Type: Web page
Description: An overview of housing programs and advocacy tools to advocate effectively for socially just housing policy.
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Date: February 2024
Key Topic: Housing Policy
Type: Newspaper
Source Credit: Spotlight PA
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Webinar: Panel on Whole Home Repairs
File Type: Web page
Description: Panelists discussed the program’s first year and the prospects of more funding.
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