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.
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
Estimating the Gap in Affordable and Available Rental Units for Families
This study examines the potential gap in the supply of rental units suitable for families with children nationally and in detail in four major metro areas.
Study: Lack of Affordable Housing Affects Health
Housing is central to people’s opportunities for living long and well. Nationwide, housing costs far exceed affordability given local incomes in many communities. As a result, people have no choice but to spend too much on housing, leaving little left for other necessities. In Texas, 13% of households spend more than half of their income on housing costs. Severe housing cost burden ranges from 2% to 24% of households.
The Gap Report March 2019: A Shortage of Affordable Homes
The U.S. has a shortage of seven million rental homes affordable and available to extremely low-income renters, whose household incomes are at or below the poverty guideline or 30% of their area median income. Only 37 affordable and available rental homes exist for...
High Rent is Restricting Job Market Growth
From Pacific Standard The cost of housing continues to rise in markets all across the country and Austin is no exception. A recent analysis of data from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies shows that from 1960 to 2016, inflation-adjusted rents increased 61...
Removing Barriers to Accessing High-Productivity Places
Regulatory constraints on housing production have shut millions of Americans out of the country’s most productive labor markets. Historically, Americans have moved to the parts of the country that offered the highest wages and most economic opportunity. This...
The Link Between Affordable Housing and Economic Mobility
Since its creation in 1986, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Program has produced nearly 3 million housing units, making it the most important source of funding for affordable housing. Yet despite the importance of LIHTC to the field of affordable housing,...
Agrihoods: Cultivating Best Practices
ULI’s Food and Real Estate Project explores the mutually beneficial relationship between food-based amenities—such as working farms, community gardens, food halls, restaurants, and grocery stores—and real estate. It highlights how the growing interest in and...
Study: The Preservation of Subsidized Housing: What We Know and Need to Know
There is an abundance of research highlighting the lack of affordable rental housing in the U.S. Given this scarcity, it is all the more important to understand the future of the existing subsidized affordable rental housing stock. The federal government has made a...
Most Americans Cite a Housing Affordability Crisis Nationwide and Close to Home
Nearly three out of four American households believe that the nation is suffering a housing affordability crisis, and a majority of respondents reported this is a problem at their local and state level as well, according to a new nationwide survey conducted on...
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