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In a Federal Register Notice dated 4/13/12, Congress granted PD&R the authority to accept unsolicited research proposals and enter into research partnerships with outside entities. This authority allows PD&R to participate in innovative research projects that inform HUD’s policies and programs. The research partnerships require a 50 percent cost share that is funded by philanthropic organizations, other governmental agencies, or a combination of these entities. Proposals may also be submitted to ResearchPartnerships@hud.gov.
This year, PD&R is focusing its cooperative agreement efforts on research partnerships that will advance one of four key priorities: 1) gleaning knowledge from HUD demonstrations, 2) better understanding of how to utilize housing as a platform to improve a person’s quality of life, 3) increasing use of American Housing Survey data, and 4) making improvements to the state of housing technology.
For additional information, please contact ResearchPartnerships@hud.gov or call Kinnard Wright or Madlyn Wohlman-Rodriguez, Office of University Partnerships at (202) 708-3061 (this number is not toll-free). Questions may also be submitted by mail to Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of University Partnerships, 451 Seventh Street, SW, Room 8226, Washington, DC 20410, ATTENTION: Research Partnerships.
Federal Register Notice Announcing PD&R’s Research Partnerships
Message from the Assistant Secretary: PD&R Research Partnerships
Frequently Asked Questions on PD&R Research Partnerships
Recently Funded Proposals
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Proposal Title
How Housing Affects Young Children
Proposal Description
The proposal tests hypotheses about housing-human development relationships — specifically, how housing affects young children in the context of their immediate and extended families, neighborhoods, and schools.
Urban Institute
Proposal Title
Mining MTO: Housing Assistance Leavers and Vulnerable Female Youth
Proposal Description
Use of MTO data to help answer the following research questions:
1) Why do families stop receiving federal housing assistance and how do they fare once they leave assistance?
2) Does a neighborhood’s coercive sexual environment influence outcomes for female adolescents?
Proposal Title
The Housing Opportunity and Services Together (HOST) Demonstration
Proposal Description
The HOST Demonstration is an ambitious effort to test strategies for using housing as a platform for services to improve the life chances of vulnerable youth and adults.
Boston Medical Center/Boston University
Proposal Title
Bringing Life Course Home: Improving Health Through Housing Stability and Support
Proposal Description
Project would evaluate the Healthy Start in Housing program, which is designed to improve access to housing for pregnant women who are at-risk of adverse birth outcomes and are either homeless or at-risk of becoming homeless.
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
Proposal Title
Relationship between receipt of housing assistance and social health
Proposal Description
To link administrative data from WA State Dept. of HHS and the RDA with HUD to examine relationship with housing assistance and health systems.
Johns Hopkins/Harvard University
Proposal Title
Brokering the Geography of Opportunity: How Landlords Affect Access to Housing and Neighborhood Quality Among HUD Assisted Renters
Proposal Description
This proposal seeks matching funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to add a formative study of landlords who could potentially rent to HCV households in the Cleveland and Dallas metropolitan areas (by virtue of owning units renting at or below the Fair Market Rent (FMR)).
MDRC
Proposal Title
Re-Thinking FSS: A Plan for Building More Evidence on What Works to Improve Employment Outcomes and Economic Security for Recipients of Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers-Re-submission
Proposal Description
MDRC is requesting a grant to support special secondary data analyses and a related planning process to design a research demonstration project to test a new employment intervention for recipients of Housing Choice Vouchers.
CEO-SIF Mayors Fund of NYC
Proposal Title
Jobs-Plus Cost Study
Proposal Description
To conduct an analysis of the program costs for Jobs Plus, a successful employment program focused on Public Housing residents in NYC and San Antonio, TX, for replication in other areas of the country.
University of Florida/Shimberg Center
Proposal Title
Using Parcel and Household Data to Evaluate the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and Housing Choice Voucher Programs: Transportation, Crime, Education and Tenant Choice
Proposal Description
To conduct a series of studies evaluating neighborhood conditions for participants in the LIHTC and HCV programs in metropolitan Florida.
University of Maryland, Census Bureau, Harvard University
Proposal Title
The Impact of Children's Housing on Their Long-Term Economic Outcomes: Linking Intergenerational Labor Market Outcomes, Residential Mobility, and Neighborhood Quality for Households Receiving Housing Assistance
Proposal Description
Linking administrative data to better understand intergenerational labor market outcomes, residential mobility, and neighborhood quality for households receiving housing assistance.
Middlebury College USDA/ERS
Proposal Title
High Cost Lending in Rural America and the Great Recession
Proposal Description
Develop research partnership to broaden analysis of AHS Micro-Data detailing data on housing units to include interest rates, type and principal.
RAND
Proposal Title
Chicago Regional Housing Choice Initiative Evaluation
Proposal Description
To obtain data directly from HUD, listing households' SS# and relevant 50058 data.
Ohio State University
Proposal Title
Aging in Place: Managing the Use of Reverse Mortgages to Enable Housing Stability
Proposal Description
Expand current research with MacArthur Foundation to address early warning signs of financial housing instability for reverse mortgage borrowers. Can post-origination monitoring increase HECM origination and influence factors to housing stability and sub-optimal loans?