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~' <br />SMALL GROUP POSTER: GROUP 1 <br />Group 1: Needs <br />- Low to middle income housing non-existent going by HUD's definition(includes <br />rental and purchase) <br />-' Needs for persons with disabilities <br />- Young and elderly don't qualify for assistance (forces these people to move to very. <br />cheap areas which may have high crime rates, for example) <br />- Students can gang up and pay more <br />- New construction for affordable housing <br />- Better-than-substandard affordable housing (some landlords not maintaining <br />acceptiable/safe properties) <br />- Rising cost of living <br />- Low-income people who live alone need quality place to live (SRO) <br />- Create SRO (Single Room Occupancy)that someone who can pay $200-300 can <br />afford <br />- Get Fed to make adjustments due to mixed incomes <br />- Moderately priced starter homes (1,500 sq. ft.; SO% median income) <br />- Caring <br />- Cheaper land <br />- Use land more effectively to gain more affordable land <br />- Low-income public housing group that may be transitory to ownership <br />- . Take advantage of higher density housing <br />- 20-30,000 subsidy per units with free land <br />- reduce fees to nonprofits (e.g., OWASA) <br />- change criterion for Fed/State incomes <br />- political will to establish appropriate densities <br />- reduce barriers to affordable housing (10-15,000 or less) <br />- address needs of elderly and disabled less than senior citizen age. <br />- Safe, affordable housing for incomes of $6-8,000/yr; $12,000/yr for those w/ serious <br />disabilities <br />- Opps (Opportunities) to move from rental to ownership <br />- Section 8; lose vouchers <br />_ Few landlords accept vouchers <br />- Don't have Section 8 and can't afford rent; no outlet <br />- Cash doesn't work for Section 8 -landlords don't accept <br />- Educate landlords to accept Section 8 residents <br />- Require landlords to accept Section 8 residents (might be a condition of granting <br />license/narrowly crafted) <br />- Students flooding market <br />z <br />