Housing Supply Planning  |  Inclusionary Housing

This briefing paper argues that inclusionary housing policies can help improve health outcomes for disadvantaged families. The creation of affordable housing units alongside market-rate units offers the opportunity for those households to move to low-poverty areas, which helps foster greater social and economic mobility and integration and can improve some health-related indicators. The brief provides an overview of inclusionary housing policies and cautions that this tool should be carefully deployed within appropriate market contexts as part of a coordinated package of efforts to increase affordable housing.