"Southeastern Pennsylvania's housing stock is increasingly segregated, to the detriment of employers, workers and their families, older communities and the region as a whole. Employers in exurban job centers are increasingly finding that their lower-paid workers must commute vast distances because of the lack of affordable housing closer to their jobs. Older suburban communities are experiencing deteriorating housing stock and increases in low-income and affordable housing that concentrates poverty to the detriment of their communities, their tax base, and the life outcomes of the families involved. These housing trends negatively impact the region as a whole, yet our public policies only reinforce these trends. First suburbs cannot access public funds that allow them to build and promote "market-rate" housing to increase their tax base. Affordable housing programs prioritize the provision of affordable housing in areas with distressed housing markets rather than in the newer suburbs that lack such housing. The region as a whole lacks a housing plan that would provide a vision to achieve greater socioeconomic balance and diversity throughout Southeastern Pennsylvania."
From:
Housing Action Group Report
Southeast Pennsylvania First Suburbs Project
Southeast Pennsylvania First Suburbs Project
Regional Public Meetings
You have to ask why is it that public supported housing non-profit organizations frequently look for buildings in areas where there is low cost real estate. Is it because although they are non-profit, they are not non-profitable? Does the money saved on low cost real-estate go into the salaries of the people that run the organizations?
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