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Habitat for Humanity

18 Thursday Feb 2021

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Look what this group is doing around town.

Before and After Habitat Tucson Helps Veterans

BEFORE AND AFTER HABITAT TUCSON HELPS VETERANS

Since 2011, The Home Depot Foundation has invested more than $160 million to provide safe housing to veterans, and along with the help of Team Depot volunteers, has transformed more than 26,700 […]Read More

All Marikay wants is a safe home

ALL MARIKAY WANTS IS A SAFE HOME

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Residents in Amphi work with Habitat to uplift their neighborhood

RESIDENTS IN AMPHI WORK WITH HABITAT TO UPLIFT THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD

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Volunteers Help Veteran After Stroke

VOLUNTEERS HELP VETERAN AFTER STROKE

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Critical Home Repair Feels Like A Blanket of Hope

CRITICAL HOME REPAIR FEELS LIKE A BLANKET OF HOPE

“The weight on our shoulder was, ‘How are we going to pay for this?” says Albert, “And then we thought—why not try Habitat?”Read More

Serving Those who Served: John Johnson

SERVING THOSE WHO SERVED: JOHN JOHNSON

A veteran who served in the 82nd Airborne Corp, John Johnson was struggling with the repairs his aging home required. A friend called on John’s behalf and Habitat Tucson’s Home Repair Supervisor […]Read More

Elizabeth Skidmore – Living with Dignity Thanks to Critical Home Repair

ELIZABETH SKIDMORE – LIVING WITH DIGNITY THANKS TO CRITICAL HOME REPAIR

Elizabeth had not had heating in her home for the last 11 years. She recalls her house getting as low at 32 degrees – literally freezing. Elizabeth would have to bundle up in her husbands’ old […]Read More

Addressing the Growing Crisis of Critical Home Repair

ADDRESSING THE GROWING CRISIS OF CRITICAL HOME REPAIR

Habitat’s Home Repair Specialist, Shianna Searcy, says, “The cost of living is increasing, but most people are on fixed incomes and cannot keep up with expenses. Some are barely […]Read More

Grateful for Help

GRATEFUL FOR HELP

Patricia is an 87-year-old Airforce Veteran living in Tucson. She told our volunteers how thankful she was for their help repairing her home.Read More

Newsletter – Courtney Webb

18 Thursday Feb 2021

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Strong links between high-priced housing and Homelessness.

14 Sunday Feb 2021

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…..https://endhomelessness.org/

Also, the homeless situation is completely out of control in LA. California based real estate companies are pushing their way into Arizona so they can repeat their nonsense all over again here.

Home / Blog / Affordable Housing / New Research Quantifies the Link Between Housing Affordability and Homelessness

New Research Quantifies the Link Between Housing Affordability and Homelessness

Written by Joy Moses December 13, 2018

Over the last couple decades, rents in America have been on the rise. Housing experts describe “severely cost-burdened households” — people who are spending far too much of their income on rent. Citizens rightly insist “the rent is too damn high.” Researchers and citizens alike suspect this status quo is hurting the nation’s efforts to end homelessness. A recent study, Priced Out: Rising Rent and Homelessness Across America, affirms the suspicions.

The study, commissioned by real estate company Zillow and conducted by a team that included Alliance Research Council Co-Chair Dennis Culhane, confirms a link between escalating housing prices and homelessness. This link is especially present in some of the nation’s largest cities. Affordable housing, therefore, is a critical solution to homelessness.

The Tipping Point

Priced Out reveals a tipping point among rising housing prices. When housing prices force typical households to spend more than 32 percent of their income on rent, those communities begin to experience rapid increases in homelessness. This finding puts a new perspective on a measure already in common use: Government agencies and researchers have long been guided by the notion that individuals and families shouldn’t be spending more than 30 percent of their income on housing costs. We can see that there are broad consequences of passing that threshold.

A Tale of Two Cities: Los Angeles and Houston

Delving into the realities of actual communities is the best way to understand the study. Comparing Los Angeles and Houston is helpful.

L.A.’s housing costs are well over the tipping point. Median-income residents spend more than 45 percent of their incomes on rent. In 2017, the city and county had the second largest number of people experiencing homelessness in the country and one of the highest homeless rates in California. L.A. is not alone. Other major cities have median rents well above the national norm. Only 15 percent of Americans live in such areas but those areas account for 47 percent of the homeless population.

Circumstances in Houston are quite different. Homelessness rates are lower than the researchers expected based on housing costs. Houston belongs to a group of communities in which the relationship between affordability and homelessness is weaker than in places like L.A.

Why? The Zillow team suggests that these communities possess specific assets and/or liabilities that cause them to defy expectations.

For example, in recent years, Houston overhauled its homeless services system. After being targeted for an intervention by HUD, the city made effective use of data and improved agency coordination. While speaking at a recent Zillow event, a representative from Houston’s coalition for the homeless stressed the importance of redirecting extensive resources from programs that weren’t producing permanent housing results to ones that are.

This tells us that an effective crisis response system is an essential tool for combating the affordable housing crisis.

Implications

Priced Out sends a strong message to any community concerned about homelessness: we must preserve and create affordable housing.

Key considerations for any community could include:

  • Rewriting local ordinances to reduce barriers to creating housing and prioritize building affordable housing.
  • Using city-owned land for affordable housing development.
  • Exploring new housing models such as single room occupancy units, smaller housing, or accessory dwellings.

Homeless service providers can look to cities like Houston for model practices in responding to homelessness. Through prioritizing Housing First approaches and effective systems management, they too can create community assets that help disrupt the connection between housing affordability and homelessness.

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