National Housing Crisis Task Force
Addressing America’s Housing Crisis
A coalition of ambitious leaders and practitioners has formed the National Housing Crisis Task Force to identify and scale the most promising innovations in housing production and preservation. The Task Force focuses on five key segments of housing interventions: land, construction, capital, regulation, and delivery. By holistically evaluating these areas, the Task Force aims to ensure a brighter future for America’s housing.
WhyHousing Affordability and Supply
Housing Affordability and Supply
is our National Crisis
America’s housing crisis affects homeowners and renters across all income levels in cities nationwide. With a federalized, financialized, and fossilized system, states, localities, and private actors have taken the initiative with new housing development entities, housing trust funds, liberalized land use, permit expediting, and transit-oriented development. Housing providers, tenants, developers, and policy-makers are innovating new solutions to solve our toughest housing challenges. The National Housing Crisis Task Force unites these innovators, producing a policy agenda and practitioner toolkit to preserve and build the housing we need.
Since 2019, home prices in the United States have jumped by an average of 47%
Since 2012, the number of rental units available for less than $1K/month has fallen by 24%
Since 2015, the number of unhoused people staying outside of shelters has increased by 48%
How
Joining together to identify and catalyze new solutions
Led by a bipartisan group of co-chairs, including state and local government executives, the National Housing Crisis Task Force comprises leading practitioners from public, private, civic, and philanthropic sectors. Supported by a Mayors’ Implementation Committee – a “strike force” of city leaders experimenting, ground testing, and affirming new policy and practice in real-time, a Research & Technical Advisory Committee, and Ex Officio leaders from past administrations, the Task Force will generate a Housing Policy Innovations report, an Innovative Housing Practice Toolkit, and a comprehensive policy agenda for local, state, and federal policymakers. These outputs will be paired with an ambitious implementation plan, including four housing implementation cohorts and the Mayors’ Implementation Committee.
