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Welcome!According to our most recent analysis, nearly forty percent of you are first-time visitors to the HUD USER website. To help you get the most out of our site, we've assembled this concise guide to the information resources and assistance available through the HUD USER Clearinghouse. We want to make it as easy as possible for you to find what you need. Take a few moments to review the links that appear on the left side of this page and in the bar across the top. These will take you directly to the resources you are most interested in and are designed to help you use this site to its fullest potential. If you're not here for housing research, though, and need information regarding public housing programs, such as housing choice vouchers, please click here. What is HUD USER?The HUD USER website is supported and managed by U.S. HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R). The following links will provide you with additional information about PD&R and the resources available from HUD:
Navigating Our SiteThere are multiple ways to navigate. Across the tops of pages, you'll see links to:
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Looking for Specific Topics?In the top/right corner of each page, you'll find a "Search" option. Using it is as easy as typing in a keyword and pressing enter. There's also a link to perform more advanced search. In this corner, you will also find the link to the HUD USER Web Store, where you can purchase the many publications and data sets that are available from PD&R. In 2005, we greatly enhanced our onsite search capabilities, so finding what you need has never been easier. Keeping You up to DateOur What's New page shows recent changes and additions to our site. In addition, for the "What's New" page you may also want to stay informed by subscribing to our weekly eList, HUD USER News. PublicationsHUD USER makes available research, reports, executive summaries, case studies, and guidebooks spanning the fields of housing and urban development. Most of the publications are available in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), which allows the document to be downloaded, viewed, and printed with all of its original formatting and graphics. The publications can also be ordered online at the HUD USER Web Store. PeriodicalsHUD USER publishes a series of three periodicals that support PD&R's mission to provide reliable information to researchers, practitioners, advocates, industry groups, foundations, and the general public. To learn more about these periodicals, please click here. Data SetsHUD USER provides researchers with access to the original electronic data sets generated by PD&R-sponsored data collection efforts. These include the American Housing Survey, HUD Median Family Income Limits, Fair Market Rents, and Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Data. This data is provided in various formats, including PDF, Excel, Word and Self-Extracting (exe) files. To learn more about the available data sets, please click here. Bibliographic DatabaseThe HUD USER Bibliographic Database is the only database exclusively dedicated to housing and community development issues. It contains more than 10,000 abstracts and citations of research reports, articles, books, monographs, and data sources in the fields of housing policy, building technology, economic development, urban planning, and a host of other relevant fields. Click here to search HUD USER's Bibliographic Database. HUD USER Web StoreThe HUD USER Web Store makes more than 800 housing-related titles available for online ordering. The Web Store is searchable by keywords or phrases, and titles are arranged topically for easy browsing. Click here to go to the HUD USER Web store. eListsHUD USER maintains one print-based and four electronic mailing lists to keep our constituents informed of new housing research publication releases, as well as case studies and events of interest to the housing community. The mailing lists provide a means of receiving updates on new research and resources available from PD&R and exchanging information regarding specific data sets. All of our subscription services are free. For more information about the newsletters and how to subscribe, please click here. Contacting UsIn case you have specific questions or need information that's not available on our site, please contact us at: HUD USER |
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