• Maintain focus on 80-120% MFI households. The plurality that represents 121+% MFI is far less
  likely to be priced out of market
• Increased navigation of, funding for, and access to educational programs and financial
  assistance programs, including low-interest loans and financial counseling provided by
  Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) that may assist in easing other angles of
  affordability
• Strategic legislative policy agenda and/or working with local institutions and leveraging public
  private partnerships to improve access to high quality early childhood education (e.g. full day
  pre-K for 3 and 4 year olds), again, to ease another angle of affordability as high quality child care
  is among the highest cost burdens for all families across the income spectrum.
• Strategic legislative policy agenda in concert with other local governments to support “legislation
  to allow flat dollar-amount Homestead Exemptions”
• “Create a preservation property tax exemption for properties to minimize displacement of
  low-income renters”
• “Expand the use of shared-equity ownership and mechanisms to preserve and create ownership
  options for households at 80-120% MFI”

(Quotations taken directly from Austin Strategic Housing Blueprint, 2017)