Affordable Housing Research & Data
Texas is short 864,000 affordable homes, and nearly half of renters are cost-burdened. Without strong housing policy, economic growth slows and communities suffer with costly impacts to local and state budgets and negative impacts to workforce growth, healthcare stability, and education outcomes.
2026 Texas Voter Housing Survey Report
The Build Texas Report brings together statewide polling, housing research, economic analysis, and public policy insights to examine the growing impact of housing affordability across Texas.
Developed to inform policymakers, business leaders, community organizations, and Texans alike, the report explores why affordable rental housing matters to the state’s economy, workforce, healthcare system, and long-term competitiveness.
EXPLORE WHAT TEXANS ARE SAYING ABOUT:
How Affordable Housing Shapes Our Future
Explore research on how affordable housing is connected to local economic and workforce development, health, education, transportation, infrastructure, and other areas of public policy. Together, these studies show how housing affordability shapes community priorities and outcomes.
Economic and Workforce Development
Health Outcomes & Impacts to Cost
Affordable Housing & Infrastructure Costs
Affordable Housing in the Suburbs
Affordable Housing and Education
Stakeholder Resources
TAAHP has put together resources for members, stakeholders and policy makers to help advocate and educate decision makers in order to promote sound, common sense, effective affordable housing policy in Texas.
Affordable Housing Studies
The Effects of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)
A new research brief by the NYU Furman Center explores what we know about whom the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program serves and what research finds about the impact of the program. The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)...
NIMBY fears unfounded: Affordable housing doesn’t lower property values
From Trulia The oft-cited fear that affordable housing will hurt the value of nearby homes is unfounded, according to a decade long look at the data. "The bottom line for NIMBYs who fear that property values will take a hit when a low-income housing project locates...
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