Palm Beach County Housing and Community Development (HCD) engaged Strategic Planning Group, Inc. to prepare an affordable housing study to examine the local housing market. The primary objectives of the study are to:

• Focus on the housing needs of very-low, low, and moderate-income households;
• Determine housing affordability criteria, such as affordable rents and home purchase prices;
• Identify current conditions and recent trends in the local housing market;
• Describe incidences of cost burden and other housing problems;
• Prepare projections of growth-generated demand for additional housing units for 2006-2010; and
• Describe the effects of housing displacement due to condominium conversions, mobile home redevelopment, and hurricanes.

Hard copies of the Affordable Housing Study and the Workforce Housing Study are available for purchase at HCD offices for a cost of $35.89 each. Checks should be made payable to "PBC Board of County Ccommissioners".

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Report Cover and Table of Contents
Executive Study
Introduction
Housing Sector Map
Chapter 1 - Economic and Demographic Trends
Chapter 2 - Housing Cost Burden and Affordability
Chapter 3 - Current Housing Market Conditions
Housing Sector A - R Assessments
Chapter 4 - Household Formation and Housing Needs Projections
Chapter 5 - General Discussion on Displacement Topics
Appendix A - Trends in housing Stock Characteristics
Appendix B - Estimates of Substandard Units
Appendix B Tables B-2 - B-6
Appendix C - Inventory of Assisted Housing Communities
Appendix D - Current Status of Additions to Supply/Affordable Housing Communities
Appendix E - Inventory of Mobile Home Parks
Appendix F - Inventory of Licensed Apartments, 50 Units or More
Appendix G - Supplemental Data - Rental Communities
Appendix H - Special Populations

Please note that Appendices I and J are not listed here as the information for these sections were obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau. Census Data information on Palm Beach County, including types of households, tenure, income categories, etc. can be found at www.factfinder.census.gov.

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