Housing Choice Scoping Sessions

Common Themes

Throughout the six Housing Choice Scoping Sessions, attendees provided a wealth of knowledge. Not surprisingly, each discussion yielded a number of popular subjects or themes. Fifty general themes were identified ranging in subject matter from aging housing stock to jobs-housing balance to tax credits. More than half of the identified themes were discussed at three or more of the scoping sessions.

The top 10 most discussed themes were:

1. NIMBY
2. Service Gap for the Very Low-Income
3. Change in Household Composition
4. Education, Training and Capacity Building
5. Impact of Federal Programs
6. Impact of the Local/Regional Tax Structure
7. Inadequate State Funding for Housing
8. Lack of Support at State Legislative Level
9. Use of Tax Credits
10. Wage/Cost of Living Imbalance

Learn more about the common themes identified during the sessions and see what participants had to say:

Click here to download a list of the 50 themes and comments