housing affordability
type: Concept
narrower: workforce housing

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: workforce housing

workforce housing
type: Concept
definition: Publicly provided low-income housing assistance is meant to provide safe homes and stable, lasting tenure to households who would otherwise often live in tenuous and unhealthy conditions and scrimp on other necessities to afford housing. Therefore, whether by design or by default, assisted housing often serves people who do not have a strong connection to the labor market, such as the elderly, young people with disabilities, the long-term unemployed, and single parents with infants and young children. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Housing; Workforce Housing]
broader: housing affordability