Austin's first housing plan? Was the rest of this all unplanned?

Interesting read in the Monitor this morning. Since I’m still a novice with affordable housing, I’m curious what you all think.

http://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2016/06/council-committee-reviews-austins-first-ever-housing-plan/

  • 75,000 housing units
  • 35,000 of them being affordable
  • 25% of the affordable ones having 2 or more bedrooms.

That seems like a ton of single occupancy housing, or is that normal? :thinking:

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33.9% of Austin households are people that live alone - pulled from to Chris Riley’s micro housing resolution below. The lack of smaller housing units is a big problem with our housing in Austin. We need a lot smaller housing options within our neighborhoods - more apartments, garage apartments, 4plexes, etc.

Here’s some demographics for Austin too:

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