Inclusionary Housing

This briefing paper examines how inclusionary housing policies fared during the Great Recession and highlights the major issues and opportunities confronting this approach during the housing market’s recovery. Though most inclusionary housing policies survived the downturn, it highlighted eight key challenges affecting these programs going forward: the difficulties of applying inclusionary housing to rental properties, the elimination of redevelopment agencies in California, difficulties in adopting new inclusionary housing policies, adapting greenfield-based inclusionary policies for infill contexts, rising homeowners association fees, serving very and extremely low income households, using in-lieu fees to support inclusion, and selling inclusionary housing units in weak housing markets.