UPDATED: Twin Cities Region Rental Housing Affordability Gap Primer: Drivers, Impacts & Strategies

UPDATED JUNE 2024

Local governments are increasingly compelled to take action to address housing problems as a top priority. They have at their disposal a wide range of policy tools that can reduce the costs and increase the supply of housing at different levels of affordability. However, well-intentioned local government policies can also be ineffective, counterproductive, or have unintended consequences if they are not developed with and targeted at local needs and conditions in mind. Without adequate support and resources to identify strategies matched to the drivers of housing supply and affordability problems in their communities and, often, as importantly, effectively communicate and engage with their constituencies about those strategies, local policymakers are at risk of inadvertently supporting proposed solutions that are politically compelling rather than substantively sound.

This Twin Cities Region Rental Housing Affordability Gap Primer was developed to help diverse housing stakeholders—including policymakers, residents, community advocates, and property owners, managers, and developers—engage in productive conversations and develop effective and durable solutions to local and regional housing problems and challenges.

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