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Affordable Housing Crisis: A Case Study

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The first step is to be aware of the problem by understanding the minimum wage vs housing wage in your city. Is there a notable difference? What is the amount of hours worked at minimum wage to acquire the housing wage in the city? This questions are important to answer before you drive into the root cause of the problem.The second step is to understand the foundation and consequences of the underlying affordable housing crisis. Once you grasp the overarching idea it is time educate yourself in the local programs such as Re-Housing (RRH) and Invisible Family Project.

Both of these projects have effective strategies to combat the effect of homelessness. Re-Housing is a cost effective strategy that potentially would be able to help families successfully exit homelessness and maintain permanent housing. The early evidence indicated that this …show more content…

By educating yourself and others in approaches to increase affordability in an urban area you can create a stable network throughout the nation that will rallying funds and strategies to help solve the affordable housing problem. The affordability Crisis affects us all not just the lower income population. (Community Tool Box,2015)

The United States is dealing with an Affordable Housing Crisis. This Crisis is echoing throughout the states and social classes. This issue effects everyone. There are consequences that emerges from the lack of housing. These consequences can cause increase in health problems, traffic congestions, discrimination between individuals or communities, increase of homeless, and lack of household stability. There are many government funded projects that help the low income resident find housing however, there is a shortage of all of the units creating mass

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Matthew Desmond, in his book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, writes about the destitution that the American society is facing with astounding specificity yet without any judgement or voyeurism. Several themes health issues can be inferred either directly or indirectly from the book. These are listed below 1. Despair According to Desmond, being evicted forces families to seek shelter on the streets, or even being forced to move into dilapidated and uninhibited houses.

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This can be achieved through policies such as rent control and the construction of new affordable housing units. Additionally, we can work with local landlords to encourage them to accept tenants who are receiving rental assistance. Another critical step is to provide homeless individuals with access to medical and mental health services. This can be achieved by partnering with local healthcare providers and offering free or low-cost healthcare services to homeless individuals. Mental health services are particularly important, as many homeless individuals suffer from mental health problems that prevent them from accessing housing and employment

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Together, as a group, we must succeed because we cannot do it alone. Government financing for projects to build affordable housing, especially for young people, might be increased as one answer. This can be accomplished by providing renters with financial aid in the form of tax credits and rental subsidies, as well as through funding the development of new, inexpensive housing

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As time goes on, the rate of homelessness rises as the population rises. Homelessness then was mostly caused by a family’s history of being homeless, drug abuse, mental disorders, and tyrannical leaders forcing his people into poverty. In modern times, several organizations are now trying to end homelessness by building cheaper housing projects more affordable to the poor and homeless shelters; these projects usually cost a fair amount of money.

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Public Policy on Housing Discrimination Executive Summary Housing discrimination and segregation have long been present in the American society (Lamb and Wilk). The ideals of public housing and home buying have always been intertwined with the social and political transformation of America, especially in terms of segregation and inequality of capital and race (Wyly, Ponder and Nettking). Nevertheless, the recent unrest in Ferguson, Missouri and in Baltimore due to alleged police misconduct resulting to deaths of black men brought light on the impoverished conditions in urban counties in America (Lemons). This brings questions to the effectiveness of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in devising more fair-housing facilities (Jost).

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Starting in the 1980s, successive governments encouraged local authorities to sell off social housing, which has not been replaced. The private construction sector has so far failed to increase supply in response to soaring demand("Simon Communities in Ireland > Homelessness > Causes of Homelessness," n.d.). Step Five: Recommend and Implement Solutions IT sounds overly-simplistic, but the ¬solution to solving Ireland’s accommodation crisis is to build more houses and apartments.

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The Fair Housing Act of 1968 was one of the initial acts that began to address this housing inequality, and fight against the discrimination that was often seen in the past, in regards to low income people of color being able to rent or buy a house. Subsequent interventions and programs were then created in an attempt to provide many marginalized communities and families with the opportunity to rent or buy a home. Programs like the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program, Low Income Housing Tax Credit programs, and Community Housing Development Organizations have attempted to amend the inequalities in housing, which in some regard can be attributed to systematic racism in the United States through our history. These programs have had successes in providing accessible and affordable housing to their targeted marginalized populations but some other programs that could be even more effective in utilizing are the Boulder Community Housing Assistance Program (CHAP) on a more national level, as well as Singapore’s housing program policies. While there have been many organizations that have tried to make an impact on the housing inequality that has been witnessed against low income communities of color, there is still more work to be done.

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The National Association of Home Builders estimates that building 100 new affordable housing for households which have low income, contributes to the creation of 80 jobs from the direct and collateral effects of construction and 42 jobs supported by the induced effects of the spending (Wardrip, Williams & Hague, 2011). By building affordable housing, people can be in a sizeable and sustainable condition, more opportunities to increase the character of life in order to avoid the unemployment, and especially reduce

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