Project Overview
Subsidized housing was established to provide affordable housing for low-income households who are cost burdened. Families are considered cost burdened when they spend 30% or more of their income for housing. Most of these housing subsidies were provided under programs giving this assistance to eligible applicants who are usually placed on a waiting list until a subsidized unit becomes available.
How long is the wait? How many units are available? Which states readily provide this help? What is the Average income of these applicants? Using Tableau reporting tool, the project establishes metrics and actions that explore these questions and more. Click to get started!
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Problem Statement
Subsidized housing helps struggling low-income and vulnerable households keep a roof over their heads, administered in a diverse array of programs. In 2019, 37.1 million households had housing cost burdens, this represented 30.2% of all households nationwide.
Many extremely low-income eligible applicants continue to face long waits for housing assistance. Programs like housing choice vouchers had a wait time of 1.5 years, 25% of them on the waitlists for 3 years or longer finding themselves at a risk of experiencing homelessness.
Next Steps
1. Make housing more affordable to the lowest income people by significantly increasing investments in targeted and highly effective programs like Housing Choice Vouchers, Public Housing and Project based Section 8.
2. Data should be well collected and stored to enable proper analysis, show clarity of what is really going on in the communities, states, allowing case managers to access better information and improve the process.
3. Take time to address issues that cause the demand for assisted housing.
4. Increase earning potential and/or opportunities for vulnerable and low-income households.