AFFORDABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY:

FROM BAD TO WORSE IN A TIGHT U.S. HOUSING MARKET

Allie Cannington, The Kelsey’s senior project manager, organizing & advocacy, noted that The Kelsey Civic Center, a 112-unit, amenity-rich, urban co-living community across from San Francisco City Hall, is coming in at 14 percent less than the city average cost of residential construction.

She suggests that states, when they are scoring applications for LIHTC, should give a high rank to submissions that include accessibility for people with disabilities. 

That, matched with city incentives, would increase the amount of accessible housing—changing the present reality that 95 percent of all housing excludes people with disabilities, with 99 percent off limits to wheelchair users.