Websites of interest

Affordable Housing Design Advisor
www.designadvisor.org
The Affordable Housing Design Advisor is a CD-ROM based tool designed to help the developers, sponsors and users of affordable housing understand what constitutes quality design and how to achieve it.

Affordable Housing Institute
www.affordablehousinginstitute.org
AHI works with governments, NGO’s and stakeholders to design, develop, pilot and improve housing finance policies and programs. This website provides a collection of documents and resources, U.S. and international affordable housing weblogs, and information about the services provided by AHI.

Building Better Communities network
www.bettercommunities.org
This website offers information on managing community concerns, barriers to development, creating a positive climate for supportive housing as well as NIMBY reports, success stories, news, monthly analyses, links to experts and a discussion board.

Department of Housing and Urban Development
www.hud.gov/initiatives/affordablecom.cfm
This website offers information about HUD programs, grant opportunities and HUD’s Affordable Communities Initiative, with resources on best practices and strategies to address regulatory barriers to the development of affordable housing.

Foreclosure-Response.org
www.foreclosure-response.org
Foreclosure-Response.org is a website offering resources intended to help states and localities respond to the foreclosure crisis. This site is maintained by the Center for Housing Policy, KnowledgePlex, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), and the Urban Institute.

Geolytics
http://www.geolytics.com
GeoLytics provides demographic data, census demographics, market research data, and geocoding for social researchers and business marketing. GeoLytics’ easy-to-use software comes with built-in mapping capabilities that create thematic maps for instant spatial display of demographic information.

HousingPolicy.org
http://forum.housingpolicy.org
HousingPolicy.org is an online guide to state and local housing policy developed and maintained by the Center for Housing Policy, the research affiliate of the National Housing Conference. The purpose of HousingPolicy.org is to collect and provide examples of proven solutions for expanding the availability of homes for working families and others in your community.

HousingWire
www.housingwire.com
HousingWire.com and HousingWire Magazine are independent sources for news, commentary and analysis covering the entire mortgage banking and financial markets. HousingWire’s online and print media platforms focus on connecting the primary and secondary mortgage markets.

HUD USER – HUD’s office of Policy Development & Research
www.huduser.org
HUD USER is a primary source for federal government reports and information on housing policy and programs, building technology, economic development, urban planning, and other housing-related topics.

Joint Center for Housing Studies
www.jchs.harvard.edu
This website from the Joint Center for Housing Studies (Harvard University, the Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Design) provides reports, working papers, conference proceedings and research notes from 1997 to the present in several broad housing categories.

Knowledgeplex
www.knowledgeplex.org
“The affordable housing and community development resource for professionals.” It offers a searchable publications database on the topics of affordable housing, economic revitalization, homelessness, land use and housing planning, organizational development and many other related topics. The website also features expert chats, podcasts, news, an RSS feed, and tools which can be embedded by website developers onto other organizations’ Web sites.

National Low Income Housing Coalition
www.nlihc.org
This website includes the NIMBY Report and many other articles on affordable housing, news, legislative and public policy reports and studies and an advocate’s guide.

Planetizen
www.planetizen.com
Planetizen is a public-interest information exchange for the urban planning, design, and development community. It is a one-stop source for urban planning news, commentary, interviews, event coverage, book reviews, announcements, jobs, consultant listings, training, and more. Planetizen’s content covers a wide number of planning, design, and development issues, from transportation to global warming, architecture to infrastructure, housing and community development to historic preservation.

Many of the following journals are accessible through institutional library systems or individual subscriptions.

Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
(Through Springer)
www.springer.com/geography/human+geography/journal/10901

Journal of Housing and Community Development
(Through WilsonWeb or JournalSeek)
www.nahro.org/publications/johcd.cfm

Journal of Housing Economics
(Through ELSEVIER)
www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622881/description#description

Journal of Housing Research
www.business.fullerton.edu/finance/jhr

Journal of Housing Studies
(Through InformaWorld or Taylor & Francis)
www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713424129