Additional Resources

• The Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) of Harvard University hosts a repository of COVID-19 resources categorized by government resources, eviction and mortgage relief, JCHS COVID-19 research, and additional resources. www.jchs.harvard.edu/covid-19-resources.
  
• "Household Pulse Survey Phase 2: Measuring Social and Economic Impacts during the Coronavirus Pandemic" by the U.S. Census Bureau, surveys households on how the pandemic has affected their education, employment, food security, health, and housing, among other topics. www.census.gov/programs-surveys/household-pulse-survey.html.
  
• "Assessing Options for Federal Rental Assistance to Stabilize Renters During the Pandemic" (2020), by Martha Galvez, Kathryn Reynolds, Jorge Morales-Burnett, and Yipeng Su with Solomon Greene, examines several federal rental assistance programs and finds that the Housing Choice Voucher and Emergency Solutions Grants programs offer the most promise for delivering efficient and equitable rental relief. www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/102676/assessing_options_for_federal_rental_assistance_during_pandemic_2.pdf.
  
• "Designing a Rental Assistance Program for COVID-19" (2020), by Local Housing Solutions, highlights several factors for cities and states to consider when developing rental assistance programs in response to COVID-19 and offers early lessons from local rental assistance programs in Chicago, Minneapolis, and San Antonio. www.localhousingsolutions.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Rental-assistance-updated-brief.pdf.
  
• "Getting Landlords and Tenants to Talk: The Use of Mediation in Eviction" (2020), by Brian Bieretz, Kimberly Burrowes, and Emily Bramhall, examines how housing courts use mediation as an alternative to traditional court proceedings and highlights best practices for using landlord-tenant mediation more widely. www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/101991/getting-landlords-and-tenants-to-talk_3.pdf.
  
• "National Low Income Housing Coalition Research Note: State and Local Rental Assistance Programs: Finding Solutions for a Growing Crisis" (2020), by Andrew Aurand, Rebecca Yae, Daniel Threet, and Emma Foley, examines prepandemic rental assistance programs from NLIHC's Rental Housing Programs Database and another dataset compiled from information about 195 rental assistance programs created or expanded in the wake of COVID-19. nlihc.org/sites/default/files/State-and-Rental-Assistance-Programs.pdf.
  
• "State and Local Rental Assistance," by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, tracks city, state, and philanthropic rental assistance programs created during the COVID-19 pandemic. nlihc.org/rental-assistance.
  
• "The COVID-19 Eviction Crisis: An Estimated 30-40 Million People in America are at Risk" (2020), by Emily Benfer, David Bloom Robinson, Stacy Butler, Lavar Edmonds, Sam Gilman, Katherine Lucas McKay, Zach Neumann, Lisa Owens, Neil Steinkamp, and Diane Yentel, compiles existing housing research and data related to the COVID-19 pandemic to estimate future eviction filings and housing insecurity and presents policy solutions to mitigate displacement. www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/the-covid-19-eviction-crisis-an-estimated-30-40-million-people-in-america-are-at-risk/.
  

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• The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's website hosts a frequently asked questions page that addresses many issues concerning manufactured housing that are of interest to consumers and builders. hud.gov/program_offices/housing/rmra/mhs/faqs.
  
• Prosperity Now's "Manufactured Housing Toolkit" offers communications tools, policy briefs, policy guides, sample local policies, and data to equip policymakers and the general public to support residents of manufactured housing. prosperitynow.org/topics/housing-homeownership/manufactured-housing-toolkit.
  
• "Displaced in Place: Manufactured Housing, Mass Eviction, and the Paradox of State Intervention" (2017), by Esther Sullivan, analyzes the divergent responses to eviction from mobile home parks in Florida and Texas. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0003122416688667.
  
• "High Performance Factory Built Housing" (2015), by Jordan Dentz, discusses planning, innovation, and marketing for energy advances in factory-built housing. energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/05/f22/rbi23_Dentz_041515.pdf.
  
• "Improving Construction Efficiency & Productivity with Modular Construction" (2010), by the Modular Building Institute, describes the stages and advantages of modular construction, such as a streamlined construction process and efficient use of resources. modular.org/marketing/documents/Whitepaper_ImprovingConstructionEfficiency.pdf.
  
• The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University's "PRO Neighborhoods: Innovative Strategies for Affordable Housing" (2019), by Alexander von Hoffman and Matthew Arck, discusses model programs that allow residents to purchase the land under their manufactured homes and promote naturally occurring affordable housing and accessory dwelling units. jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Harvard_JCHS_PRO_Neighborhoods_Innovative_Strategies_for_Affordable_Housing_0.pdf.
  
• "Prefabrication and Modular Construction 2020 SmartMarket Report" (2020), by Dodge Data & Analytics, explains the current and future uses of prefabrication and modular construction and analyzes users' benefits and challenges. modular.org/documents/public/PrefabModularSmartMarketReport2020.pdf.
  
• "Disaster Housing Construction Challenges in America: Exploring the Role of Factory-Built Housing" (2019), by Michael Windle, Sarah Quraishi, and Jarrod Goentzel, investigates the potential for using factory-built housing for meeting immediate needs in disaster recovery and as an ongoing source of affordable and resilient housing. dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/122651/MIT_HSCL_Housing_Report_final_102819.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y.
  
• "Will Homebuilding Finally Evolve? Lessons from the American Experience with Factory-Built Housing" (2019), by Lynn M. Fisher and Scott C. Ganz, reviews the history of factory-built housing in the United States and considers how factory-built housing might be adopted more broadly and lead to cost savings. aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Will-Homebuilding-Finally-Evolve.pdf.
  

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