Subsidized Housing In US
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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. This guide will help you build the corresponding visualizations.
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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 1.7 years, 28% of them on the waitlists for 3 years or longer finding themselves at a risk of being homeless
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Next Steps
1. To implement the timeout session for accurate results and exit strategies for the Step by Step and Deployement Steps, which also results in accurate calculations for the meaures.
2. To implement strageries or help session for the students to encourage and complete their projects on timely manner and have them move up the process.
Deployment
