NEEDED: AN OVERHAUL OF LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL HOUSING PROGRAMS IN THE U.S.

In terms of housing policy changes needed, Veteran Housing Corp suggests that there is STILL A LOT OF WORK TO DO.

NOTHING BUT A COMPLETE OVERHAUL OF THE NATION'S GOVERNMENT FINANCED HOUSING PROGRAMS WILL RESOLVE THE NATION'S AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISISAs STAKEHOLDERS in the #affordablehousing space, isn't it our responsibility to present new ideas, innovation, and foster change for the betterment of society and our communities. My hope is that every #affordablehousing stakeholder will bring this most important issue to light and contact their local, state, and federal housing officials and work to OVERHAUL all its housing programs as they are self-defeating, provide no permanent solutions to a national housing crisis, and oftentimes benefits special interests, developers, and elected officials, rather than the American people and communities they are intended to serve.

I am not advocating for another government social program, but rather that governments (local, state, and federal) should be responsible when investing taxpayer dollars in program that are meant to serve their constituents. Those programs must provide permanent solutions that pay for themselves.

If individuals or corporations, private developers, for-profit companies and nonprofit developers want to build mixed-use projects, affordable housing, workforce housing or market-rate rent projects, they should be free to do so, but not at taxpayer expense! Taxpayer dollars should not be invested in any program or project that does not provide a permanent solution to the problem such program or project seeks to solve. Current government funding, especially in the area of housing, provides short-term solutions that only "kick the can" down the road that burdens and leaves future generations of Americans to deal with the same recurring problem. All government taxpayer supported programs should be created with mechanisms by which said programs recover the taxpayer dollars provided over time to be reinvested in the same or similar programs.

The affordable housing crisis facing America is something only new and innovative ideas and solutions will work, not more of the same old way of doing business and wasting trillions in taxpayer supported programs that have failed miserably in the past!

Veteran Housing Corp suggests local, state, and federal governments overhaul the current housing programs and adopt a coordinated VIENNA HOUSING MODEL, which is a program that works and provides a way to finance expansion of the same without additional new funding from the federal government as the program pays for itself. How We Can Bring Vienna’s Housing Model to the U.S. https://lnkd.in/esjumDf3 via @shelterforce