Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration said it was working rapidly to remove families from cluster sites into safer properties, but noted the number of families in need far exceeds the limited
available supply of affordable housing.
Micro-housing is hot, as it fits with national trends toward more renters who rent for longer periods of time, and a
lower supply of affordable housing across the country.
And to help ensure the quality of life in her area, Lafayette serves as the executive director of the Partnership for Housing Affordability, a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that an adequate and
diverse supply of affordable housing is a public policy priority in central Virginia.
«We have a rapidly
diminishing supply of affordable housing, with rent growth outstripping income growth in most major metro areas,» said David Brickman, executive vice president and head of Freddie Mac Multifamily.
And what this is doing is increasing
the supply of affordable housing.»
Housing associations have added to
the supply of affordable housing but not at the volumes of council house building programmes in the 1960s and 1970s.
The city's
supply of affordable housing is shrinking.
It's quite clear the Senate and the Assembly agree, and we appreciate their support and look forward to working with them, because we need to, in fact, speed up
the supply of affordable housing, not slow it down.»
First, we must increase
our supply of affordable housing.
«Due to the extreme shortage of teachers in the state, many school districts must seek opportunities to attract qualified teachers,» Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D - South San Francisco, said of his bill meant to increase
the supply of affordable housing for teachers.
In some high - priced places such as New York City, housing advocates complain that flippers are reducing
the supply of affordable housing and driving out low - income residents and sometimes the middle class.
In 2002, the St. Joseph Community Land Trust was formed to increase
the supply of affordable housing.
The draft Democratic platform, released on July 1, said the party would increase
the supply of affordable housing «by expanding incentives and easing local barriers to building new affordable rental housing developments in areas of economic opportunity.»
MHI participates in task forces, roundtables, and coalition meetings to position manufactured housing as a key component of expanding
the supply of affordable housing.
The Arizona Republic Metro Phoenix has long been known for
its supply of affordable houses, easy to buy and resell.
Metro Phoenix has long been known for
its supply of affordable houses, easy to buy and resell.
«We have a problem,» says Fabian Bedne, a Nashville district council member and a sponsor of a city bill that proposes a new zoning plan to increase
the supply of affordable housing.
But boosting
the supply of affordable housing is just one of many needs — roads, schools, transit — competing for limited tax dollars.
The initiative could help stem the decline in
the supply of affordable housing, he said.
The number of lost units is a fraction of the roughly 641,000 rent - controlled apartments in the city, but in a tight market the removals have had an outsized effect, tenant advocates say, eating away at
the supply of affordable housing at a time when L.A. has become one of the least affordable cities in the country.