Over the last 20 years, IHI has:
Advocacy
- Speeches & workshops given in at least 64 communities
- Articles, reports and books published on inclusionary housing
- Five National Inclusionary Housing Conferences in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2010 and 2013
- At least thirty panels and workshops conducted at other conferences
Feasibility/need studies
- Ten comprehensive feasibility/need studies conducted for communities
- Bureau of Labor Statistics annual wages for 500+ occupations analyzed in terms of housing affordability in eight communities
- Actual payrolls of 25 employers covering 24,587 employees analyzed in terms of housing affordability in nine communities
Inclusionary housing campaigns and ordinances
- Advised/participated in community campaigns for inclusionary housing in nine communities
- Advised/participated in drafting of inclusionary housing ordinances in seven communities
- Advised/participated in drafting implementing regulations for inclusionary housing ordinances in four communities
Administration of inclusionary housing programs
- Administered 1st, 3rd and 10th largest inclusionary housing programs in USA
Interface with for-profit homebuilders
- Interacted with national and regional homebuilders regarding construction of 17,025 units of inclusionary housing as integral components of developments including 130,000+ market-rate units
Direct construction of mixed-income development
- Public agency serving as primary developer for 12 developments involving over 2,900 mixed income housing units
Financing inclusionary housing
- Secured financing for 22 inclusionary projects involving over 5,000 mixedincome housing units
- Secured financing for public housing authority to purchase over 2,000 inclusionary units for re-rent and re-sale to very low and extremely lowincome households
Mobility counseling
- Conducted over 250 workshops for potential clients for housing in areas of opportunity
- Conducted 760 tours of properties to over 6,000 NEDs in the ELAP program
- Provided mobility counseling, credit repair advice, expungement advice, etc. for 2,300 clients
- Placed 300 very low and extremely low-income clients in areas of opportunity
- Placed 665 very low income non-elderly disabled clients in project-based housing
- Placed 1279 very low income non-elderly disabled clients in tenant-based housing
Research and evaluation
- Conducted six studies, including “He Who Pays the Piper: an Assessment of IZ Research”
Housing Policy IS School Policy
- Conducted studies evaluation SES and academic performance in 21 states and metro areas¸ including six studies measuring inter-relationship of FARM and non-FARM students’ test scores
- Mentored Heather Schwartz’s doctoral dissertation “Housing Policy Is School Policy,” the definitive research on impact of economic integration on low income student academic outcomes