And why we need vouchers that will enable others to live in market-rate units without spending more

The latest annual rental housing (un)affordability report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition provides a useful set of figures indicating needs in the District , as well as in each state and the nation as a whole.
As I explained last year, NLIHC uses several set of figures most of them drawn from federal sources to arrive mississippi river boat tours at what it calls a housing wage. This is the amount a renter would have to earn to afford a modest two-bedroom apartment, mississippi river boat tours plus basic utilities in each jurisdiction.
Assuming full-time, year round work, this translates into a housing wage of $27.15 an hour a higher housing wage than for any state except Hawaii, though somewhat lower than for any of the top 10 metro areas, according to dcist .
The story in the District is in many ways like the story NLIHC tells for the nation as a whole. The number of renter households has increased. Vacant apartments are scarce, creating the usual supply-demand pressure on costs.
But the supply side is also affected by the upscaling of once-affordable rental housing and the fact that most new construction is also for fairly well-off households that, at least for now, prefer renting mississippi river boat tours to owning.
And why we need vouchers that will enable others to live in market-rate units without mississippi river boat tours spending more than half their income for rent, as nearly two-thirds of extremely low-income households in the District do.
The District has the revenues to make living in this high-cost city affordable mississippi river boat tours for residents who haven t shared mississippi river boat tours in the prosperity those revenues indicate that s in fact made rents even less affordable for them.
It will have to choose to make ongoing commitments and to target a very significant portion to its lowest-income residents who are homeless now or at high risk because they really can t afford the rent they re paying.
Thank you for this insight, Richard. I m curious why you would prefer more public housing mississippi river boat tours facilities over vouchers that make moderately-priced mississippi river boat tours units in regular apartment buildings (or houses) affordable.
It s true that most apartment rentals DC are way beyond the league of low-income families. And I agree that it s either they add more public housing or they start developing apartments.for mississippi river boat tours low income families (which is pretty much the same, actually)
Support for more affordable housing development would certainly help. So would support for preserving such affordable housing as we have. A third solution (in addition to, not instead of) is to provide more vouchers that low-income households can use to help pay market-rate rents.
Hi! I'm Kathryn Baer. I'm a policy research and communications consultant. This blog is one way I use my skills to support policies that will reduce the hardships poor people suffer and the causes of poverty.