Improving access to high-quality education and equipping people with marketable skills goes a long way in
increasing opportunities for housing options and other goods and services.
Place-Based Housing Strategies
There are opportunities to take advantage of
complementary investments and location
efficiencies. For example, cities have sought to
ensure that they maintain affordable units
proximate to public transit as a way of to control
the total burden that housing and transportation
represents for low-income families.
Likewise, many projects that were funded
under the Low Income Housing Tax Credit
have affordability periods that are expiring,
which means that the rent protections built
into those properties no longer apply or will
no longer apply in the near future. Many of
these projects are in efficient locations,
proximate to transit, employment centers,
and other social services.
Preserving affordability for those locations
that efficiently serve the needs of lowincome residents is another potential
priority area, especially if that strategy can
be paired with additional neighborhood
investments, or if those units are in
neighborhoods already experiencing
market-based appreciation.
Reducing regulatory restrictions on supply
could help bring additional units online to
meet some of the additional demand and
provide for a variety of housing types and
ownership structures.
A zoning ordinance that allows for a mix of
housing (single-family, duplexes, smallscale multifamily, larger scale multifamily)
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