Economic Justice Content Topic Results

This page for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities provides basic details about the CTC, including refundability and the value of the credit.

This issue brief from Casey Family Programs highlights the impact that homelessness and housing instability has on families in the child welfare system, and explores the role that child protection agencies can have in connecting families to housing services to minimize the risk of unnecessary investigations and entry into foster care.

This brief report summarizes key findings from a qualitative evaluation focused on the experiences of domestic violence advocates and direct service providers supporting Black immigrant and refugee survivors. The evaluation aimed to identify the factors contributing to housing insecurity and homelessness among this population, drawing directly from the insights of those working on the front lines of service delivery. Report is available in Amharic, English, French, Haitian Creole, and Spanish.

This report highlights three alternative housing models to helping survivors of inter-personal violence (IPV) achieve more equitable housing outcomes. The housing models discussed here include: a state coalition that is building permanent housing using Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTCs); a regional IPV program that is leading community workforce and housing development; and finally, immigrant-led organizations that are developing housing, employment, and child-care cooperatives to resist gentrification and housing discrimination.

This report examines how the challenges of housing insecurity are especially impactful for underserved communities, including Black immigrant and refugee populations. Report is available in Amharic, English, French, Haitian Creole, and Spanish.

The 2025 briefing highlights emerging findings from NRCDV's ongoing Black immigrant and refugee housing research project. This project explores the scope of homelessness and housing insecurity among Black immigrant and refugee survivors of domestic and sexual violence and documents the experiences of advocates and direct service providers working with this population.

This document builds upon the working group’s previously released product, The Need for Paid Safe Leave & Model Legislative Language, which provided model legislative language regarding paid safe leave. It includes recommendations for when workers can be required to provide documentation for safe leave claims, and, where required, what types of documentation options should be allowed.

PreventConnect has released a resource guide of tools and resources to build practitioners’ knowledge, skills, and capacity to implement economic support strategies in their prevention work.

This summary highlights one of NRCDV’s partner organizations, A Miracle 4 Sure (AM4S), that supports formally incarcerated survivors of domestic violence. AM4S helps meet the needs of individuals upon release from incarceration, including housing, employment, wrap-around services, community reintegration programs and violence prevention and intervention initiatives and other essentials. AM4S also provides a multi-pronged support by offering job training programs, financial literacy workshops, mental health and counseling services, art and recreation programs, entrepreneurship support, and substance abuse treatment programs.

On October 12-13, 2023 the Office of Family Violence Prevention Services hosted a roundtable discussion on safe housing solutions for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. This report shares key insights and recommendations that emerged from the roundtable.

The Need for Paid Safe Leave & Model Legislative Language is the first product of the Safe Leave Working Group. The document is a resource for policymakers, advocates, and stakeholders that provides key context for the importance of paid safe leave, this document includes model policy language for providing paid safe leave, which can be used directly or adapted to appropriate contexts. 

This webinar discussed the findings of NRCDV's report, “Examining the Needs and Experiences of BIPOC LGBTQ Survivors through a Flexible Funding Pilot Project,” and shared relevant policy solutions. The project highlighted in this report expands on a 2022 process evaluation of the flexible funding pilot project conducted by NRCDV in partnership with the LGBT Center of Central PA.