Registration is now open to attend the Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning Competition (IAH) 2023 Final Presentations and Awards Ceremony, which will be held on April 12, 2023, at 1:00 pm EDT in person at HUD Headquarters and via webcast. Currently in its tenth year, the IAH is a HUD initiative to encourage research and innovation in affordable housing, raise practitioner and future practitioner capacity, and foster cross-cutting teamwork within design and community development processes. The IAH competition has been designed to replicate a real-life approach. Multidisciplinary teams composed of graduate students in architecture, planning and policy, finance, and other areas have been asked to address social, economic, environmental, design, financial, and construction issues while designing a new development for mixed-income residents on a site in Chicago, Illinois, as identified by the Chicago Housing Authority. On April 12, the four student finalist teams,
The newest edition of Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research discusses the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on housing markets. This issue was guest edited by William M. Doerner and R. Kevin Winkler. During the COVID-19 pandemic, various federal agencies enacted policies to promote the safety and soundness of their mission-driven activities. Strong housing markets granted early and necessary stability for wavering macroeconomic conditions, and an economic crisis was averted by providing debt payment relief and large-scale injections of financial liquidity.
Greta Li, David Low, and Judith Ricks examine borrower and mortgage characteristics among borrowers in forbearance during the COVID-19 pandemic. They determine that Black and Hispanic borrowers were severely overrepresented among borrowers in forbearance compared with their representation in the overall sample. The study offers a descriptive baseline useful for understanding the effects of pandemic mortgage poli