The department believes there are other creative ways to develop public housing. Ten years ago, there weren't the financial tools available today.

Most housing authorities doing it this way received an increase.

In 2013, 1 percent of poor renters lived in rent-controlled units; 15 percent lived in public housing; and 17 percent received a government subsidy, mainly in the form of a rent-reducing voucher. The remaining 67 percent—2 of every 3 poor renting families—received no federal assistance. 32 This drastic shortfall in government support, coupled with rising rent and utility costs alongside stagnant incomes, is the reason why most poor renting families today spend most of their income on housing.

Ten years ago, we would have been blissfully ignorant.

We develop these tools in tandem with the forecasters. They know what they're looking for from us to aid the forecasting problem.

Many of the residents of adult housing sold their houses that they've lived in for so many years because they find it exhausting and expensive to maintain a large and empty household.