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Unaffordable “Affordable” Housing: Challenging the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Area Median Income
Center for Social Policy Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-1-2009
Disciplines
Abstract
There is no such thing as “affordable” housing. Affordability is not a characteristic of housing: It is a relationship between housing and people. For some people, all housing is affordable, no matter how expensive. For others, no housing is affordable, no matter how cheap.
Community Engaged/Serving
No, this is not community-engaged.
Citation Information
Michael E. Stone. "Unaffordable “Affordable” Housing: Challenging the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Area Median Income" (2009) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michael_stone/1/
Published in Progressive Planning, the key publication of Planners Network http://www.plannersnetwork.org/.