“Workforce Housing” is an Insulting Term

Shelterforce, October 6, 2014

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This blog post explains that the concept of “workforce housing” excludes the low-wage workforce. It calls for affordable housing practitioners to either adopt the term as a true replacement for “affordable housing,” which includes housing for all workers who cannot afford market-rate prices, or to abandon it altogether.