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
Nation is Ill-Prepared to House its Aging Population
More than half of US households are now headed by someone 50 or over, according to Housing America’s Older Adults 2018, a report released today by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. And the living arrangements, financial resources, health, and functional...
Housing Near High-Performing Public Schools Costs 2.4 Times More than Housing Near Low-Performing Public Schools
Across the 100 largest metro areas in the nation, housing near high-performing public schools cost an average of 2.4 times more than housing near low-performing public schools, according to a study from the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings. Neighborhoods...
Preservation and Neighborhood Opportunity in the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program Beyond Year 30
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) has financed the construction, rehabilitation, or preservation of approximately three million rental housing units affordable to low-income households since its inception in 1987 (HUD, 2017), making...
Rental Housing for a 21st Century Rural America
Many rural communities are facing shortages of affordable rental housing, an issue that is becoming increasingly urgent as incomes stagnate and federal supports are stretched thin. One in four rural renters is spending more than 50 percent of their income on...
Study: Cost of Developing Affordable Housing with Tax Credits
This report examines the factors affecting the cost of developing affordable multifamily rental housing using the federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program (LIHTC). Using data provided by 14 LIHTC syndicators, we analyze development cost data for more than...
Hurricane Harvey’s Impact: Resilience & Opportunity
By: Kendra Garrett & Kyle Anderson, Summer 2018 TAAHP Housing Policy Researchers In the days leading up to what became the U.S.’s second most devastating hurricane, tropical depression Harvey was being watched with a keen eye by many. Texans are not strangers...
Housing And Health: An Overview Of The Literature
There is strong evidence characterizing housing’s relationship to health. Housing stability, quality, safety, and affordability all affect health outcomes, as do physical and social characteristics of neighborhoods.The impact of housing on health is now being...
The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Rental Homes
Each year, the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) measures the availability of rental housing affordable to extremely low income households and other income groups. Based on the American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample (ACS PUMS), The Gap...
Building the Case: Low-Income Housing Tax Credits and Health
Safe, secure, affordable housing provides a foundation that allows individuals, families, and communities to thrive. While there are multiple mechanisms to encourage the production and preservation of affordable housing, a robust body of evidence supports the...
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