Katie Fallon

Shaping the Opportunity Zone Map to Drive Housing Production That Best Meets Community Need Contrary to initial expectations, most Opportunity Zone investments are in housing. Governors will be selecting new Opportunity Zones in 2026, and local leaders need to work now to best position their...

Governors will be selecting new OZs in July, and local leaders must lay the groundwork now to maximize the chances of attracting OZ investment that aligns with their communities’ needs. We explored what they should be thinking about for @Housing Matters: housingmatters.urban.org/articles/sha...

Franzia fanon is so so good

Oklahoma Lawmakers Push Eviction Reform - Oklahoma Watch Oklahoma legislators are proposing reforms to address the state's high eviction rates, which particularly impact families with young students. Proposed changes include providing legal representation…

“High rates of chronic absenteeism in Tulsa Public Schools come from families who have been evicted from their homes.”

oklahomawatch.org/2025/12/17/o...

via @oklahomawatch.bsky.social

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I know I'm a 1/2 decade late, but is Emily in Paris just a revisiting of Mad Men through a tech executive lens of "what women like"?

Love to see large scale spatial mobility data incorporated into the segregation literature!

$8.75M Investment Supports ‘Research Resilience’… | Maryland Today UMD, MPower Funds Combine to Help Preserve Institutional Capabilities, Lab Operations and More

We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.

City Council Legalizes Accessory Dwelling Units in Residential Districts - Columbus Underground Columbus City Council voted last night to legalize Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) in all residential districts. Also known as carriage houses or mother-in-law suites, ADUs are smaller housing units b...

The code changes passed last night, pushed through by Otto Beatty, who will be leaving council at the end of the year.

columbusunderground.com/city-council...

Ohio is one of the nation’s dirtiest states, new study finds While you may be clean, and your house may be clean, if you live in Ohio, you’re residing in one of the nation’s dirtiest states, according to a new study. The study, conducted by drain manufacturer…

My lungs, which I need to clear out monthly- are not surprised. 614now.com/2025/hot-top...

Evidence Shows Permanent Supportive Housing Helps People Exit Homelessness. A Proposed Funding Change Would Cut Those Programs. A proposed shift in federal funding away from permanent supportive housing solutions could push tens of thousands of people out of their housing program over…

The impact to local communities will be large and negative. There are no beds, there are no places for folks to go if funding for permanent housing is pulled back www.urban.org/urban-wire/e...

How Cities Can Address Overlapping Housing, Affordability, and Health Challenges Across the country, aging affordable housing presents challenges for residents and housing providers alike. Not only are older buildings expensive to maintain, but deferred maintenance also drives up ...

Beautiful and informative new piece on how one organization is addressing affordability, health, and resilient rehab housingmatters.urban.org/articles/how...

The “Privacy” Trap Corporations are rolling out new technologies that may technically comply with data privacy laws, but actually create more ways to control and exploit workers. This brief offers concrete principles fo...

Corporations are rolling out new AI tech that may technically comply with data privacy laws, but opens up new ways to control and exploit workers.

Workers, researchers, and tech experts agree that we need a new generation of labor and tech protections: https://bit.ly/4oeGBKn

Affordable Housing Is Getting Scarce for Older Adults Despite over 2 million older adults receiving federal rental assistance, only about one in three older adults who need federal rental assistance receive...

Seniors face particular peril when there is a lack of affordable housing. Read more:

New Trump Tariffs Have Local Housing Developers Concerned - Columbus Underground The Trump administration announced another round of tariffs last week that could contribute to higher rents and more stalled development projects in Columbus. At a time when they are already dealing w...

There's another round of Trump tariffs coming - it's not gonna be good for an already-struggling housing market.

4.8 Million People Will Lose Coverage in 2026 If Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire In this brief, we estimate the impact on coverage of the expiration of enhanced PTCs that would occur in 2026 without action by Congress. Our estimates inclu…

If premium tax credit enhancements expire, uninsurance will increase 21% overall, with the biggest increases in southern states that haven’t enacted ACA Medicaid expansions. (1/3)
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Untangling a Complex Problem: Preserving Housing Wealth for Vulnerable Owners through Technology and Estate Planning Homeownership is a key source of household wealth. Many households hope to build wealth through homeownership and to pass it down to future generations. But …

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Join Urban on 9/25 @ 5:30 p.m. ET for a hybrid event on preserving #housing wealth through estate planning and technology. Experts will share strategies and emerging #research. #LiveatUrban

If there's one piece of research that came out in the last year that I think all housers should read, it is probably this brief.

*Affordable AND available* and the need for more income-restricted *deeply* affordable housing for those most vulnerable to housing instability, eviction, & homelessness.

EPA Announces Termination of $7 Billion in Grants to States, Tribes, and Territories to Bring Solar Energy to Low-Income Households | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities August 07, 2025: EPA announced that it plans to terminate $7 billion in grants obligated to states, tribes, and territories meant to help over 900,000 low-income and disadvantaged households access re...

📣 New Executive Action Tracker Update: EPA Announces Termination of $7 Billion in Grants to States, Tribes, and Territories to Bring Solar Energy to Low-Income Households www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

Ninety Years after Its Creation, Social Security Must Adapt to a More Unequal Society Ninety years after the Social Security Act was signed into law, the program remains popular but needs modern retooling to continue to support beneficiaries with low incomes and disabled adults.,On Aug...

#SocialSecurity has supported millions for 90 years—but by 2033, it may not cover all benefits. A new Urban Wire post explores the #data and offers solutions to protect low-income Americans.

Frustrated by NIMBYs, states are trying to force cities to build affordable housing Utah's leaders worry skyrocketing home prices are keeping young people from creating wealth. It's among a growing number of states — red and blue — passing laws to promote more affordable places.

"...In recent years, the state has amped up both the carrot and the stick, passing laws to encourage development and to enforce its mandate. Towns and counties now have to pick a handful of ways to create denser, cheaper housing and report on their progress every year."

New fact sheet on Fair Chance laws - TLDR, there is immense variation in how jurisdictions are trying to open doors to housing for people with criminal records through fair chance approaches. For researchers - an opportunity to test how approach affects outcomes! www.urban.org/research/pub...

Proposed Change Would Legalize ADUs in Columbus Residential Districts - Columbus Underground Columbus City Council is preparing new legislation that would legalize Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) in all residential districts. Councilmember Otto Beatty held a hearing yesterday to lay out a rou...

Looks like we won't have to wait until Phase 3 of Zone-In (2027 probably) to see action on ADUs, this is actually happening now:

Is this the first Columbus based office to residential conversion!?

Trump's Big Ugly Bill Is a Loss for Housing The tax bill includes big increases in housing funding. But its other provisions are so harmful that the affordable housing field should not be celebrating.

Any housers who celebrate this bill are showing that they only care about their piece of the LIHTC industrial complex and not the people they purport to serve. My latest editorial for @shelterforce.bsky.social.

Great news - automatically sealing records is a great first step for more equitable tenant protections! Point of sealing or more legislation around tenant screening reports can help make these laws more impactful too! housingmatters.urban.org/articles/aut...

Data Rescue Project Portal is live!!!

The Trump Administration Has Proposed $27 Billion in Cuts by Block Granting Housing Assistance. That Could Worsen the Housing Affordability Crisis. The president’s budget proposed combining five federal housing assistance programs into one block grant—a move that would immediately and dramatically reduce the number of assisted households.

So many cities and states are working hard to address their housing affordability crises. If Federal funds get pulled back - the momentum being built in new supply and rehab will slow at the same time as housing stability supports also dry up www.urban.org/urban-wire/t...

Today's #UIClaims data out from the Department of Labor (www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf) continue to show significantly higher continued unemployment insurance claims for federal workers than this time last year, up 45% for the week ending May 17 (compared to the same week last year). #EconSky @epi.org

A Costly Form of Displacement: Eviction From Mobile Home Parks Mobile home parks offer many residents a chance at affordable homeownership. But eviction from these communities can be particularly harmful. Our study documents for the first time the extent of eviction activity in mobile home parks across the state of Florida.

New Study 🚨
Mobile home parks provide affordable housing for more than 20 million people in the US. But what happens when you experience an eviction in these kinds of homes? 
We analyzed hundreds of thousands of records in Florida to find out.
evictionlab.org/mobile-home...

Responding to Federal Data Changes: Connecticut’s Path Forward While the topic of “disappearing data” may seem alarmist, or perhaps relevant only to data people, what we are learning about changes to the support of our publicly funded data is going to affect every organization, including non-profit and for-profit organizations. At our May 30 event in Hartford, we learned more about what is happening to data and data partnership that is affecting state data, what we can do in our own organizations to follow the law and protect privacy, and most importantly, identified actions that we can all take as participants in this great democracy.

via @CTopendata Responding to Federal Data Changes: Connecticut’s Path Forward | demography

I'm hoping to see more Apartment and Landlord associations mobilizing against the proposed cuts. The rent only eats first when families are actually eating. Cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, and the safety net will exacerbate the huge challenge of unaffordable housing and past-due rent.