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Brooklyn Law School

June 23, 2015

Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Round-Up

By Serenna McCloud

  • U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is proposing policy changes to improve access to low-poverty neighborhoods – recent research (summarized here) indicates that place has a lot to do with educational attainment and earning power throughout life.  HUD’s housing choice voucher program is proposing new rules that  will increase access to lower poverty neighborhoods by allowing higher fair market rent calculations.
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