Affordable Rental Housing Affordable housing is the number one challenge for landlords, tenants and real estate investors. Look for match starting at the current point. If not found in either direction, give message. Not found anywhere, give message.
Affordable housing is scarce everywhere.
Even though the rental housing stock is generally old and poorly maintained. Municipalities practice exclusionary zoning that prevents inexpensive multifamily housing from being built. They now impose costly rental inspections with sometimes subjective interpretation of requirements and inspectors who insist on impossibly expensive up-dating of century old housing. The Roosevelt Administration began a number of initiatives directed at stabilizing the nation's housing stock, encouraging home construction, and promoting home ownership. The first of these programs was the Federal Home Loan Bank System which established a complex system of government support for home mortgages.