Affordable Housing/Worst Case Needs Reports to Congress

Worst case housing needs is a long-standing measure of the extent of unmet needs for affordable rental housing of adequate quality, including public rental assistance. Since 1991, HUD has produced a regular report analyzing the current state and long-term trends of the worst case housing needs in the United States.

U.S. Housing Market Conditions

The U.S. Housing Market Conditions website contains all the national, regional, state, metropolitan, and local data and analysis in one location.

Components of Inventory Change (CINCH) reports

The Components of Inventory Change (CINCH) report measures changes in the characteristics of the housing stock of the United States. Using data collected from the national American Housing Survey (AHS), conducted every two years, the characteristics of individual housing units are compared across time.

Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)

The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program is the most important resource for creating affordable housing in the United States today. Created by the Tax Reform Act of 1986, the LIHTC program gives State and local LIHTC-allocating agencies the equivalent of approximately $8 billion in annual budget authority to issue tax credits for the acquisition, rehabilitation, or new construction of rental housing targeted to lower-income households.