Affordable Housing Task Force

An Affordable Housing Task Force assists a community in analyzing its current regulatory landscape and makes recommendations to help improve housing affordability. One of the most effective ways to achieve regulatory reform is to build a team of interested individuals with diverse areas of expertise who share an interest in affordable housing. To assist state and local governments, as well as public-private partnerships, in creating an affordable housing task force, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has prepared an advisory guidebook, Creating a Task Force on Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing. The guidebook lists common signs that communities should look for to identify local regulations that are having a negative impact on the development and retention of affordable housing, and outlines the procedure to establish a task force.

To build a task force, the guidebook states that communities must define goals and objectives, select members, designate a chairperson, and assign staff support for the task force. Once relevant research has been analyzed and all goals and objectives have been established, the task force will present a final report that identifies specific regulatory barriers and propose necessary changes to the local governing body for action. Please click on the link below to view the guidebook in its entirety:
HUD’s guide to creating a task force.

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