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
Texas among top six states with least amount of affordable housing
According to a new report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, Texas is now in the top six states with the least amount of available rental housing for low-income families.
Effects of Affordable Housing development on property values
This paper examines the effects of introducing additional LIHTC developments in urban neighborhoods to determine whether the concentration of these affordable housing properties negatively affects local home values.
Pandemic Tenant Protections and Emergency Rental Assistance
NLIHC released a new report,"Tenant Protections and Emergency Rental Assistance during and beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic." The report provides a descriptive analysis of new tenant protections and rental assistance-related policies enacted or implemented by states and local governments in 2021.
Pandemic Household Spending Strategies
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard Study: Renters tapped a range of financial resources to make rent even in the face of income lost due to the pandemic.
New Report Shows a Surging Rental Market, Starkly Divided by Race and Renter Incomes
– Rental housing demand came roaring back in the second year of the pandemic, reducing vacancy rates and driving up rents, according to America’s Rental Housing 2022, a new report released by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. The report indicates that some of the rental rebound reflects the lack of inventory in the for-sale market, which has kept many higher-income renters from buying homes. At the same time, however, many lower-income households, and especially lower-income households of color, still struggle to pay the rent.
Study: Addressing Homelessness Through Hotel Conversions
A TERNER CENTER REPORT - DECEMBER 2021Copyright 2021 Terner Center for Housing InnovationFor more information on the Terner Center, see our website atwww.ternercenter.berkeley.edu Hotel and motel acquisition and conversion can offer a relatively fast and...
New Report Reveals the Challenges of Preserving the Federally Assisted Housing Stock
The 2021 Picture of Preservation is a joint report by the Public and Affordable housing and Research Corporation and the National Low Income Housing Coalition focusing on the challenge of preserving the federally assisted housing stock in the face of the national affordability crisis and chronic underfunding for housing programs.
Study reveals impact of Rental Assistance Demonstration Program
This study was published by The Urban Institute Abstract Summary The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program launched nine years ago to test a new strategy intended to maintain public housing stock in...
Employment-Affected Households Less Likely to Obtain Rental Assistance than Other Safety Net Benefits in 2020
Study shows Employment-Affected Households Less Likely to Obtain Rental Assistance than Other Safety Net Benefits in 2020
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