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Two recently released scorecards measuring progress on
affordable housing show that the city continues to fall short of the annual targets it has set to create homes for Austin s poorest residents.
These benchmarks were set with the adoption of the
Strategic Housing Blueprint in 2017; this is the second annual scorecard, reflecting data for 2018 and 2019. In those two years, the city and its housing partners only produced 210 units earmarked for Austinites earning 30% or less of local median family income, or about 1% of the stated goal. (For 2020, Austin s MFI is $68,300 for one person, $97,600 for a household of four.)
Housing targeted at 30% of MFI ( extremely low income under federal guidelines) can help people exit homelessness, but the city also fell short of producing