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How does rent control affect affordable housing supply?
In recent years, rent control regulations have reemerged as a potential solution to the housing affordability crisis. To better understand the effect of rent control across a wide variety of housing markets and policy regimes, P4A researchers at the Urban Institute undertook the first cross-city panel analysis examining the effect of rent control reforms on rental housing supply across 27 US metropolitan areas, encompassing more than 4,000 cities. This research shows that while rent stabilization increases the number of units affordable to residents with extremely low incomes, on average, it also reduces the overall supply of rental units.

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Community-led housing and health equity solutions in California’s Central Valley
A recent study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Community-Led Solutions: How Local Organizing Committees Drive Change for Housing and Health Equity in California’s Central Valley,” explores how community-driven initiatives can tackle long-standing inequities by empowering residents to have a say in decisionmaking processes that affect their housing and health outcomes. These committees have successfully advocated for policy changes and increased resource allocations in underserved communities, offering a replicable model for other regions.

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How can Medicaid policies in Pennsylvania promote and improve maternal and child health?
This paper delves into two recent pay-for-performance programs in Pennsylvania that provide financial incentives for managed care organizations (MCOs) that make improvements in utilization and quality metrics of Black women and children. Interviews with MCO representatives indicated their collective perspective that MCO involvement is needed in Medicaid policymaking. Findings from this study shed light on how MCOs understand and implement equity-based policy to ensure targeted populations are benefiting.

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Can incarceration policies affect infant health?
There’s been a recent push to better understand the role of incarceration policies in shaping health inequities and promoting or impeding health equity. A recent study, summarized in P4A’s latest blog post, addresses how two “tough on crime” laws—Three Strikes and Truth in Sentencing—may have affected birth outcomes between 1984 and 2004, particularly in the populations most likely to be incarcerated. The study is among the first to link state incarceration policies to infant health.
Community corner

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Register for the upcoming webinar on October 2, at 12:00 p.m. (ET), entitled “Challenging the Status Quo: Shifting Power in Research Partnerships,” hosted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s 4Action programs. This webinar will feature investigators from the Evidence for Action, Policies for Action, and Systems for Action programs highlighting unique research collaborations incorporating community partners’ expertise and lived experience to address structural racism and health equity in their local communities.

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