Flexible Affordable Housing Policy Design with Scale Impacts and Equity Objectives
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Affordable and subsidized housing providers must design and implement housing strategies: where, when and with what types of housing to best meet the needs of lowand moderate-income households for affordable/low-cost permanent shelter. Recent research has proposed a multiobjective integer programming model for this purpose that jointly optimizes measures of net social benefit and equity and addresses limited variations in housing characteristics.
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