Using in-house staff and contractors, PD&R undertakes studies and issues reports on HUD programs to determine how well they are achieving their objectives and how they can be improved. The report Voucher Homeownership Assessment is an example of this type of effort.

PD&R also conducts studies and issues reports on housing and community development matters not tied directly to HUD programs. The guidebook Developing Successful Infill Housing is an example in this category.

Examples of major recent PD&R reports include:

Discrimination in Metropolitan Housing Markets. This series of reports builds on the Housing Discrimination Study 2000, the most ambitious effort to date for measuring the extent of housing discrimination in the United States against people because of their race or color. The reports provide national estimates of discrimination that African Americans and Hispanics faced in 2000 and 2001 as they searched for housing in the sales and rental markets. The reports also provide an accurate measure of how housing discrimination has changed for these groups since 1989. Another report in this series will examine housing market discrimination that Native Americans face.

Housing Choice Voucher Location Patterns: Implications for Participant and Neighborhood Welfare. This study is the first to use HUD administrative data comprehensively to describe the location patterns of families participating in the Department's largest rental subsidy program, Housing Choice Voucher program. The study identifies central city and suburban locations, comparing where participants live with the locations of affordable housing. The report provides detailed information for the 50 most populous metropolitan areas in the country.

Developing Successful Infill Housing. This practical guidebook provides guidance on how to develop infill housing in developed areas and includes information on assembling land, obtaining financing, planning and design, and navigating the regulatory approval process. It contains case studies on successful infill projects and describes how they were successfully accomplished.