The Affordable Housing Progress Report
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The Affordable Housing Progress Report is a preliminary report on the status of affordable housing needs in the Washington, D.C. region. It provides guidance to area jurisdications on housing policies that have the potential to respond to the affordable housing crisis. Although each of the nine jurisdictions in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region has a different style of governance, there is a set of solutions -- implemented locally and nationally -- that can provide a range of housing choices for everyone, from young working families to grandparents on fixed incomes.
Building and rehabilitating more housing overall, and investing in affordable housing in particular, ensures that businesses can attract and keep high-quality workers. Affordable housing strengthens our communities by guaranteeing that the full range of residents has decent housing, everyone from our children to our grandparents. Building and preserving needed housing in existing communities also protects our environment by guiding growth toward existing cities and towns and away from farms and forest lands.
