Affordability
Estimating the Gap in Affordable and Available Rental Units for Families
While we typically think of family households as homeowners, renters are more likely than homeowners to have children in their household. However, migration, development, and tenure trends over the last decade have affected the availability of rental housing suitable for families. For low-income households with children, finding an affordable, right-sized, and safe unit can be a significant challenge....
Measuring Housing Affordability: Assessing the 30 Percent of Income Standard
The 30-percent of income standard is a widely used and accepted measure of the extent of housing affordability problems across the country. While simple and easy to implement, the measure is not perfect. The limitations of the 30-percent standard have long been recognized: its rigid uniformity amidst a diverse and ever-changing array of affordability challenges raises questions about its validity over time and across markets and household types. ...
A SHARED FUTURE: CAN GENTRIFICATION BE INCLUSIVE?
While gentrification raises fears of displacement, it also offers some hope because the growth in higher-income households in previously poor areas can help to shore up city tax bases and possibly spur economic and racial integration....
A SHARED FUTURE: WHAT WOULD IT TAKE FOR HOUSING SUBSIDIES TO OVERCOME AFFORDABILITY BARRIERS TO INCLUSION IN ALL NEIGHBORHOODS?
This paper, by Margery Austin Turner, Senior Vice President for Programming Planning and Management of the Urban Institute...
CREATING WELL-DESIGNED AFFORDABLE HOUSING: OPPORTUNITIES AND OBSTACLES
How do the notoriously complicated funding and approval processes for affordable housing shape the design of those projects? In particular, are the funding and approval processes so complex that they make it difficult, if not impossible, to incorporate high-quality design into the planning and execution of affordable housing?...
A SHARED FUTURE: THE POTENTIAL FOR HUD'S AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHERING FAIR HOUSING RULE TO MEANINGFULLY INCREASE INCLUSION
This paper was originally presented at A Shared Future: Fostering Communities of Inclusion in an Era of Inequality, a national symposium hosted by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies in April 2017. ...