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Public housing was established to provide decent and safe rental housing for eligible low-income families, the elderly and people with disabilities. Public housing comes in all sizes and types, from scattered single-family homes to high-rise apartments for older families. There are approximately 1.2 million households living in public housing units, managed by some 3300 PHAs. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Most of the new housing units in recent years have been single-family homes, according to another U. New homes should continue to arrive at a rapid pace for several years, because a lot of construction has already begun, said Daniel McCue, a senior research associate at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University. The Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah, in a report last year, said that the years of the pandemic brought a cycle of boom and bust to housing construction in the state. The National Association of Realtors, in a February report, offered a higher estimate of housing shortages, of around 2.5 million units, mostly single-family homes.
According to the analysis, closing the total housing gap requires an increase in single-family and multi-family supply to help restore balance in the housing market and reduce pressure on sales and rental prices. The housing market was impacted by rising mortgage rates, red-hot buyer demand cooled and builders began to backtrack in the construction of single-family homes. The housing shortage has become one of the main topics of political conversation, even as states struggle to build more units and house people. Housing Matters is an online resource for the most rigorous research and practical information on how quality, stable and affordable housing in a vibrant community contributes to individual and community success.
However, this figure exaggerates the housing shortage, as new multifamily homes provide options for both buyers and renters. Apartment construction is also at historic levels, with 438,500 units built last year, the highest level since 1987. In his State of the State speech, Phil Murphy mentioned the state's low housing stock, at a time when tens of thousands of New Yorkers are looking for housing in the suburbs. Multifamily housing can alleviate current housing affordability problems by offering more supply to renters. The United States is not building enough housing to account for the number of people it establishes their own homes.
However, while a single-family home usually takes 7 months to complete, a multifamily home takes much longer, 15 months, so those units will take longer to come to the market.
