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The Center for Public Enterprise highlights PAHRC’s new national report estimating a $169 billion capital need to preserve America’s aging public housing stock, emphasizing the scale and urgency of reinvestment required nationwide.

Kelly McElwain, Manager, PAHRC's Director of Research, showcases how the National Housing Preservation Database supports housing preservation efforts nationwide.

The findings, part of the 10 Year Roadmap for Public Housing Sustainability, offer updated data on the costs of maintaining and modernizing the country’s 899,000 public housing units.

Preserving the nation's 899,000 public housing units could require approximately $169.1 billion, estimates a new study released by the Public and Affordable Housing Research Corp. (PAHRC).

In Mississippi, where there’s already a dearth of 50,000 or more affordable homes for extremely low-income residents, that number could grow in the next five years. Housing units available under the federal Low Income Tax Credit program could lose their affordability by 2030 — a number estimated nationwide to be 350,000 with…