With Housing Credit Expansion, Congress Could Address the Affordability Crisis

HFA leaders Tia Boatman Patterson and Ralph M. Perrey issue call to action to Congress. —

The lack of housing availability is upending the lives of working Americans from Los Angeles to Memphis, Tenn., from Seattle to Sarasota, Fla., and everywhere in between. The shortage of affordable housing is severely constraining our nation’s economic growth and is threatening Americans’ economic and geographic mobility, the very definition of the American Dream.