Report
The growing shortage of affordable housing for the extremely low income in Massachusetts
Chiumenti, Nicholas (2019-04-01)
This report identifies ways that the state?s policymakers and housing agencies and providers can more efficiently use limited resources to address the affordable housing needs of extremely low-income households. The first is to prioritize rental assistance in areas of the state where rents are low and the inventory of market-supplied housing is high. Doing so will take advantage of local market conditions that are favorable to rental-assistance subsidies while addressing these areas? high rates of rent burden. Tax-credit and other supply-oriented subsidies can be targeted more heavily to ...
New England Public Policy Center Policy Reports , Paper 19-1

Discussion Paper
Lower Income Households’ Vulnerability to the Recent Commodity Price Surge
McCarthy, Jonathan (2011-06-13)
In a previous post, I discussed the impact of changing commodity prices on the discretionary income of households and concluded that these effects generally were relatively modest except in cases of extreme swings in commodity prices. As many people know, there was a large surge in energy prices during the first quarter of 2011, and it appears to have had a significant effect on discretionary income and consumer spending. (See recent speeches by Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke and New York Fed President Dudley; for views outside the Fed, see FT Alphaville, Tim Duy, and James Hamilton.)
Liberty Street Economics , Paper 20110613

Speech
Opening Remarks at the Evolution of Work Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City
Dudley, William (2016-11-17)
Remarks at the Evolution of Work Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City.
Speech , Paper 226