Preserving America's Affordable Housing: Retooling a 20th Century Asset for 21st Century Needs
Date Published: 05/12/2005
Author: Tony Procscio
Publisher: LISC
Between 1965 and 1990, Americans invested over $60 billion in a supply of affordable rental housing to shelter low-income people, improve distressed neighborhoods, provide for mixed income communities, and ensure opportunities for seniors to live close to community and family. This publication describes the work of LISC's Affordable Housing Preservation Initiative in helping preserve rental housing, financed or subsidized through federal assistance agreements, many of which are now expiring. Case studies from Boston, Pittsburgh, suburban Chicago, and the Mississippi Delta illustrate the work.
Topics: Housing, --Affordable Housing Preservation
Type: Case study / model practice, Topical report