Inadequate Housing

Housing with severe or moderate physical problems, as defined in the American Housing Survey (AHS) since 1984. A unit is defined as having severe physical problems if it has severe problems in any of five areas: plumbing, heating, electrical system, upkeep, and hallways. It has moderate problems if it has problems in plumbing, heating, upkeep, hallways or kitchen, but no severe problems.

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1. Accessible Housing
2. Affordability
3. Affordable Housing
4. Area Median Income (AMI)
5. Attainable Housing
6. Displacement
7. Dwelling
8. Elderly Person Household
9. Extremely Low-Income Household
10. Fair Market Rent (FMR)
11. Family
12. Gentrification
13. Gross Annual Income
14. Gross Rent
15. Homeless
16. Household
17. Housing Assistance Payment
18. Housing Choice Voucher
19. Housing Market Area
20. Inadequate Housing
21. Low-Income Household
22. Market Area
23. Market Value
24. Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)
25. Net Rent
26. NIMBY (Not In My Backyard)
27. NOAH (Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing)
28. Operating Subsidies
29. Overcrowding
30. Project-Based Housing Assistance
31. Project-Based Vouchers
32. Public Housing
33. Qualified Census Tract
34. Redlining
35. Rent-to-Own
36. Rehabilitation
37. Renovation
38. Section 8
39. Tenant-Based
40. TIF (Tax Increment Finance)
41. TOD (Transit-Oriented Development)
42. Utility Allowance
43. Waiting List
44. Workforce Housing