External Research

• Assets & Opportunity Profile: North Texas, Communities Foundation of Texas
• Economic Impact of Real Estate Activity: Texas
• The Effects of Holding Assets on Social and Economic Outcomes of Families
• Homeownership and Neighborhood Stability
• Impact of Affordable Housing on Families and Communities A Review of the Evidence Base, Enterprise (2014)
• Impact of Homeownership and Criminal Activity
• The Many Benefits of Home Ownership, NeighborWorks
• Measuring the External Benefits of Homeownership
• Paths to Homeownership for Low-Income and Minority Households, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
• The Social Benefits of Stable Housing 2012-04
• Upside Down to Right Side Up 2014

• Code Enforcement and Community Stabilization
• Indianapolis Abandoned Properties Action Plan
• Predicting Housing Abandonment
• Strategies for Fiscally Sustainable Infill Housing, Greenbelt Alliance
• US Council of Mayors Best Practices for Vacant and Abandoned Properties 2008
• Vacant Properties: The True Costs to Communities, National Vacant Properties Campaign

• Differential Effects of Homeownership on Children from Higher- and Lower-income Families
• Effects of Homeownership on Children; Harkness and Newman 2003
• A. Unified Combines Preschool and Apartments, Los Angeles Times
• Poor Quality Housing Is Tied To Children’s Emotional and Behavioral Problems, MacArthur Foundation How Housing Matters

Roadmap for Encouraging Grocery Development in Houston and Texas, A Report of the Houston Grocery Access Task Force

• Health and Wellness Alliance for Children
• Market Survey of Long-Term Care Costs, Metlife
• National Center for Healthy Housing

• 2016 Housing Landscape
• The State of the Nation’s Housing 2016
• Worst Case Housing Needs 2015

• Georgia Land Bank Resource Manual, Center for Community Progress (June 2013)
• How Land Banks are Strengthening America’s Neighborhoods
• Land Banks and Land Banking, Center for Community Progress

• Confronting Concentrated Poverty, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Fewer, Poorer, Gloomier: The Lost Decade of the Middle Class, Pew Social & Demographic Trends
• Income Inequality May Take Toll on Growth, New York Times
• National Center for Children in Poverty
• The Rise of Residential Segregation by Income, Pew Research Center
• S. Poverty rates higher, safety net weaker than in peer countries, Economic Policy Institute

Managing the Urban Commons