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Affordable Housing Measures: Need, Goals, and Scores
Three measures that inform regional and local housing policy
While the Council provides a variety of demographic research and analysis useful for understanding the region's housing landscape, the future affordable housing need, Livable Communities Act (LCA) goals, and Housing Performance Scores are the main measures used by the Council to work with communities to address affordable housing.
Read more about affordable housing in the Twin Cities region in this one-page summary (pdf).
Understanding
NEED
,
GOALS
, and
SCORES
These three critical measures of regional housing policy are distinct but sometimes confused—check out these overviews to learn more about
NEED
,
GOALS
, and
SCORES
.
NEED, GOALS, SCORES
in one-page
(pdf)
Watch this 5-minute tutorial about NEED, GOAL, SCORES
Learn more and download current information
NEED
Communities' share of the region's projected need for affordable housing over the next decade
SCORES
Quantifying communities' efforts around affordable housing for priority funding
GOALS
An aspirational but realistic number of new affordable housing units to build by 2020
Existing Housing Assessments
An Existing Housing Assessment is not a comprehensive picture of a community's housing stock but it is a useful starting point
to understanding a community's housing needs. The data include
affordability level of existing housing units
tenure
housing types
publicly subsidized units
housing cost burdened households
For community-specific data, visit the
Local Planning Handbook's Community Pages
. We've compiled the Existing Housing Assessment data for every
county, city and township into one file (excel file).