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 Message from the Deputy Assistant Secretary Two and a half years ago, we published the first issue of Evidence Matters on the topic of neighborhood revitalization, featuring a discussion of the Choice Neighborhoods program. Our goal was to shed light on how research on housing and community development issues has informed policymaking at federal, state, and local levels. Six issues later, we have covered topics ranging from the next generation of rental housing policy to low-income homeownership at a pivot point, explored what sustainability means and how to measure it, examined why some cities and regions are more resilient than others, and shared how HUD is using real-time data to improve its strategies to address homelessness.
Evidence Matters emerged in the midst of a growing call for evidence-based policymaking from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Government Accountability Office, and nonprofits like the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy. These organizations often cite random controlled trials (RCTs) as the best (and sometimes the only) research upon which policy should be made or programs scaled up. The Office of Policy Development and Research has supported, and will continue to support, RCTs to inform policymaking; however, the mission of this publication is to share how we and others have wrestled with research findings using a variety of methodologies that may challenge existing or proposed policies. Evidence-based policymaking is also about the process of confronting the evidence and applying it to improve the quality of programs and the implementation of policies. FULL MESSAGE |
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