Periodically, PD&R convenes conferences and seminars on housing and community development issues, often in conjunction with other HUD offices or outside organizations. PD&R brings scholars, decisionmakers, and advocates together in a variety of settings ranging from brown-bag seminars to major policy conferences. For example, PD&R, in conjunction with the America's Affordable Communities Initiative, a Department-wide effort to work with state and local governments to address regulatory barriers, hosted a national conference on regulatory barriers to affordable housing. The conference took place in April 2004 in Washington, DC, and brought together academics, practitioners, and government officials to review the impact of regulatory barriers on affordable housing and help plan for short- and long-term research to better understand and address this critical issue. The papers presented in conjunction with this conference will appear in an upcoming issue of PD&R's housing research journal Cityscape.

All research reports and studies that PD&R funds or prepares are available to the public in hard copy and electronic formats. Both versions can be obtained on www.HUDUSER.org. PD&R also publishes a number of periodicals, including our ResearchWorks newsletter and U.S. Housing Market Conditions (a quarterly publication of housing and mortgage market conditions).