Why It’s So Hard to Build Affordable Housing

A wide range of local organizations and institutions have been working in recent years to draw attention to the need for more affordable housing in Central Ohio. Numerous plans and studies have been completed on the topic, but they tend to assume a level of familiarity with the affordable housing and development industries that most people simply don’t have, and they don’t answer the most basic question – ‘If there is such a desperate shortage of affordable housing, why aren’t developers just building more of it?’

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