Revisiting Rental Housing Policy: Observations from a National Summit

Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies

W07-2: Revisiting Rental Housing Policy: Observations from a National Summitcommunicates essential findings from the symposium Revisiting Rental Housing: A National Policy Summit.  Directed toward business and government leaders, this policy brief focuses on the short-term solutions identified at the symposium as being practical and politically feasible ways to make better use of existing limited resources to address the nation’s primary rental housing challenges of relieving rental affordability problems, preserving low-cost rental housing, revitalizing neighborhoods, and using rental housing assistance to help improve the lives, opportunities, and productivity of the poor...