What is the difference between Public Housing and Affordable Housing? Many allies have been asking us this question. Here is a fact sheet with cited sources that explain the difference. Please share!

When the government funds private affordable housing, it is giving money to private entities who are, in many cases, responsible for rents being so unaffordable, to begin including the houselessness and the current housing crisis. These private entities are given public money to provide housing that is not affordable to those who need it most, which will eventually be converted to market-rate housing, and that is not accountable to the public. This is NOT a good use of public funds; it is a giveaway to the private sector. Public housing is the only way out of our current crisis. City of Minneapolis their private investors with MPHA want you to think “affordable is public”. It is not. We call on elected officials to fully fund and expand public housing now! Now City of Minneapolis and MPHA are using Section 18 and RAD to privatize public housing.
#KeepPublicHousingPublic #StopSection18 #StopRAD