#6

Alright, week two and I am still staggering around collecting evidence to make up some juicy research. I have a meeting scheduled on Friday where I will be presenting my findings and hopefully we will take in on from there. This path has taken an interesting turn as I have been looking at research from National Housing Conference, National Governors Association, and National Low Income Housing Coalition etc. It’s a lot of relevant and irrelevant research to go through and I haven’t even started yet. How would this program look and what expectations would it address? In my recent conversations I have been advised to address issues pertaining to the area under focus. However I am not sure what the developers want to look at. Do they want to address affordable housing and homelessness while looking at health benefits or address an entirely different variable? Problem is, affordable housing programs from different states address different issues and are designed differently even if they address the same issue. Some have set up bonds as a financing mechanism while some use trust funds. Things are a bit hazy at the moment.