Homes For Working Families

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Innovative Public Policies: Policy Handbook

Increasing the Availability of Affordable Homes: A Handbook of High-Impact State and Local Solutions
Increasing the Availability of Affordable Homes: A Handbook of High-Impact State and Local Solutions

Homes for Working Families, in partnership with the Center for Housing Policy, published Increasing the Availability of Affordable Homes: A Handbook of High-Impact State and Local Solutions in early 2007. The user-friendly handbook serves as a practical reference tool that state and local leaders can use to address the affordability challenge within their jurisdictions.

Homes for Working Families is using the handbook as a "best practices" guide as we work to advance policy changes in some of the nation's highest-cost housing markets. We will share this handbook with opinion leaders and other advocates to prompt them to join us in our efforts to change policy to combat the growing shortage of homes within reach of working families.

View the handbook.

View the full report, Increasing the Availability of Affordable Homes: An Analysis of High-Impact State and Local Solutions.

View the one-page summary of the handbook.

Access the Center for Housing Policy's corresponding study, Paycheck to Paycheck: Wages and the Cost of Housing in America.