Affordable and sublime: 13 projects that represent the future of affordable housing

The statistics are grim. According to Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, nearly half of all renter households (20.4 million) spent more than 30 percent of income on housing in 2019; 17.6 million households spent more than 50 percent. The National Low Income Housing Coalition reported that there were only 37 affordable and available homes for every 100 extremely low-income renter households nationwide in 2019.