Fostering Housing Innovation to Improve Affordability and Resilience
Faced with rising housing costs and increasingly frequent natural disasters, housing officials, builders, and developers must examine innovative technologies that can both decrease production costs and strengthen homes’ resistance to storms.
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What Happens to LIHTC Properties After Affordability Requirements Expire?
Launched in 1986, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program uses tax credits to encourage private developers to create affordable housing.
Defining Housing Affordability
Housing programs in the United States have long measured housing affordability in terms of percentage of income. In the 1940s, the maximum affordable rent for federally subsidized housing was set at 20 percent of income, which rose to 25 percent of income in 1969 and 30 percent of income in 1981.
South Bend’s Vacant and Abandoned Housing Challenge: 1,000 Houses in 1,000 Days
The large number of abandoned and vacant homes in South Bend, Indiana, was one of Pete Buttigieg’s top priorities during his successful 2011 campaign for mayor.
Landlords
Matthew Desmond’s 2016 book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City tells the story of two neighborhoods, one a predominantly white trailer park community and the other a predominantly African-American community in Milwaukee.
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