All US cities have a shortage of affordable housing units and long waiting lists for them. Some estimate that only under a quarter of eligible households actually receive housing assistance in any form, public housing, housing vouchers or private but federally assisted housing. The under-supply occurs in thriving and prosperous parts of the country as well as in poor and struggling regions.
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A public housing development dating to the 1930s in Fort Worth, TX, slated to be demolished as part of RAD (photo: ArchPlan) |
For every 100 extremely low-income (ELI) renter households in the country, there are only 29 affordable and available rental units.
Extremely low-income households—a definition used by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)—earn 30 percent of area median income or less. [...]
Nationwide, only 28 affordable, adequate, and available units exist for every 100 extremely low-income renter households. (Baltimore: 43)
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Perception of Public Housing in the US. (photo: The Atlantic) |
Not one county in the United States has an even balance between its ELI households and its affordable and available rental units. As a result, ELI households have to search harder for a place to live, spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent, or live in substandard housing. (Urban Institute)
What causes this pervasive scarcity of affordable housing and what are the right remedies? Of those two questions, the first is relatively easy to answer: .... to read the full article click the below link:
Community Architect: How to Build more Affordable Housing?
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Nikolaus Philipsen FAIA
Archplan Inc. Philipsen Architects
Baltimore MD
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