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PLCY 306: Public Policy Analysis in Action: Housing Policy

Guide to resources for PLCY 306 assignments.

CRS Reports

CRS Reports (Congressional Research Service) are produced by the public policy research arm of Congress and are heavily researched and written by experts in the field on legislative issues. CRS Reports are available fulltext from 1916 to the present. 

Access  via the  Congressional Publications (Proquest) database (link below).
Follow these steps:

1. Document Types
Either keep Select All, or deselect and choose CRS Reports.
(If you keep Select All, you will have the opportunity to limit document type within results)

2. Keep the search field to: All fields except full text

3. Enter Search Terms = keywords. Example:
"affordable housing" or "subsidized housing"
and
covid or coronavirus

4. Limit by date if need be

 

Congressional Publications CRS Housing Covid

 

Everyone can probably use the resulting CRS report from this search:

CRS Housing Covid Report