Affordable Housing is a problematic issue and could be considered a crisis that exists all across the United States of America and in many parts of the world. Cost, overcrowding, and inadequate housing are three main factors that create an avenue of resistant to meeting the needs of households that need affordable housing. Non-profit programs such as Habitat for Humanity have provided some relief for families desiring to achieve what I would like to accomplish within the future, of affordable home-ownership. However, the reality is that many households seeking affordable housing are forced to accept that renting is more affordable than owning a home, due to high utility costs and rising prices in property taxes, and other household bills. Nevertheless, a lack of affordable housing should not result in homelessness, especially in a society that had not recorded a homeless population until the last few decades.
Books, newspaper articles, household dinner table conversations, educational discussions, activist and political forums, statistics, and surveys explore the dynamics and demographics about affordable housing and its affects. In combination with subjective opinions, evidence, and experience, these same variables determine the legislation of policy that has resulted in a decline in affordable housing for those included as homeless, working class, poor, unemployed, elderly, disabled, some middle class households, the deemed uneducated and those receiving public assistance. Affordable housing for low-income to moderate-income people is a high demand with only a limited number of available units and homes. This decline continues all across the state of Illinois and throughout the United States of America. The poor are standing in line and anxiously awaiting approval from waiting lists for subsidized and affordable housing that allows them stability and security. These households are forced to meet standards that may be undesirable to specific needs, too restrictive to qualify a household for a basic standard of living, or forcing a household to endure living conditions that are substandard, but meet the basic need of shelter.
