J-PAL North America, a research center in MIT’s Department of Economics, announced new partnerships with four organizations across the United States as a part of the center’s inaugural Housing Stability Evaluation Incubator. Local Initiatives Support Coalition (LISC), Oakland Housing Authority (OHA), Project Hope Boston, and New Mexico Legal Aid were selected as partners under J-PAL North America’s Housing Stability Evaluation Incubator, which will support organizations in expanding the base of rigorous evidence on strategies to reduce and prevent homelessness. The selected organizations will develop randomized evaluations, also known as randomized controlled trials,…