The Cost of Affordable Housing: Does It Pencil Out?

Copyright

2016

Published By

Urban Institute

This tool explains through data visualization why in many places and at many times the market cannot build affordable multifamily housing without subsidies. It displays data on the costs to build and finance affordable multifamily housing developments, costs to operate those developments, income that the developments could expect, and the gap between the achievable capital and development costs that challenges many affordable housing developers.