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Video: Sam Chandan’s Affordable Housing Report Key Takeaways

By Thomas Hallissey

January 08, 2024

In this video, Dr. Sam Chandan, Founding Director of the C.H. Chen Institute for Global Real Estate Finance at the NYU Stern School of Business and non-executive chairman of Chandan Economics, discusses key takeaways from Arbor’s Affordable Housing Trends Report Fall 2023.

He explains how low housing supply has eroded affordability as government gridlock delays a planned expansion of the Housing Choice Voucher program. Dr. Chandan’s top-level overview describes how a supply/demand imbalance has exacerbated an urgent need for increased affordable housing development in the U.S.

Watch the full video.

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Video: Sam Chandan’s Affordable Housing Report Key Takeaways

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