Housing and Community Development Policy
URBS/PLSI 580 at San Francisco State University, Spring 2009

Resources on the Internet: A Selected List of Sites

Journal articles on housing policy published by HUD
Housing Policy Debate
Pamuk, Ayse “Tools for a Land and Housing Market Diagnosis” (Feb. 9th reading)

San Francisco

• Mayor's Office of Housing
• The Planning Department (see Housing Element of the General Plan, The Better Neighborhoods 2002 Program)
• Housing Authority
• Redevelopment Agency
• The Nonprofit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH)
• The Bridge Housing Development Corporation
• Mission Economic Development Association (MEDA)
• Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC)
• Citizens Housing Corporation
• Episcopal Community Services
• Digital San Francisco Resources (Listing of nonprofits in San Francisco's neighborhoods online)

Real Estate

• National Association of Realtors
• National Association of Home Builders
• The California Association of Realtors site.
• Buying A Home, HomePath.com by Fannie Mae
• Dreamhomeloan.com
• HomeGain
• Cohousing
• Calthorpe & Associates
• Google + Craig's List Housing Maps

San Francisco Bay Region

• Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG)
• Regional Housing Needs (ABAG)
• GreenInfo Network Maps (demographics)

California

• Department of Housing and Community Development, (other excellent links)

Foundations/Nonprofit Intermediaries

• National Congress for Community Economic Development (NCCED)
• Corporation for Supportive Housing  
• Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
• Housing Assistance Council
• Enterprise Foundation
• Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC)
• Bay Area LISC

Advocacy Groups

• Low Income Housing Coalition  
• Cohousing Network
• National Coalition for the Homeless
• Urban Ecology

Federal Government

• HUD
• HUD's Neighborhood Stabilization Program
• HUD's Public Housing Program
• HUD's Housing Choice Vouchers Program
• HUD's Hope VI Program
• HUD's Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) Program
• HUD E-Maps (interactive maps that show location of public housing projects, brownfiled tax incentive zones, etc.)
• Homeless Assistance
• HUD USER
• Fannie Mae
• U.S. Census Housing and Household Economics Statistics

International

• The World Bank
• Inter American Development Bank, Urban Development Group
• Asian Development Bank
• United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• Cities Alliance:   Cities Without Slums

Research Institutes and Policy Organizations

• The Urban Institute
• Urban Land Institute
• Joint Center for Housing Studies (Harvard/MIT)
• Brookings Institution, Metropolitan Policy Program
• Policy Link
• Public Policy Institute of California
• Berkeley Program on Housing & Urban Policy
• Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy
• Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
• San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR)
• SFSU Public Research Institute
• SFSU Institute for Civic and Community Engagement

Research Tools

• SFSU Electronic Databases (some of the links are SFSU accessible only), (see Ingenta, Web of Science/ISI, EBSCO Online, Lexis/Nexis)
• Research Guide to City and Regional Planning (at UC-Berkeley)
• Planning Resources Links (at UC-Berkeley)
• Planetizen, Digital Planning & Developmnet News (Use the search engine to find articles on housing)
• Cyburbia University of Buffalo's Urban Planning Portal
• DataPlace by KnowledgePlex

Web page created and maintained by Ayse Pamuk.   Please send comments and suggestions for new links to (pamuk@sfsu.edu), last updated Jan. 2009.