housing gap
Not enough homes
The housing gap is the difference between the number of homes available and the number needed to meet demand in a given area.
It typically refers to a shortage: The city's housing gap has widened as construction lags behind population growth.
The term often appears in discussions of affordability, since insufficient supply drives up prices and rents.
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
- affordabilityState of being purchasable
- crisisDecisive dangerous moment
- rentPayment for temporary use
- rent controlHousing price regulation
homeless · scarcity · demand · supply · waitlist · waiting list · eviction · crowding · deficit · squeeze · displacement · gentrification · shelter · tenants · mortgage · unaffordable · low income · overcrowded
- inequalitiesinequality, inequity, disparities, digital divide, class divide
- shortfallsdeficit, shortfall, budget shortfall, shortage, lack
- injusticeinjustice, inequality, discrimination, bias, prejudice
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