Civil Law

The Joint Center for Housing Studies and the Center for Workforce Preparation of the Unites States Chamber of Commerce convened a national leadership forum on workforce housing to discuss the role of affordable housing in promoting community vitality. As many business leaders have come to realize, the rising cost of housing is increasingly a bottom-line concern. Like transportation and education, the availability of affordable workforce housing affects directly the ability to attract and retain an adequate, stable and skilled labor pool at competitive wages. Although they approach the workforce housing issues from differentâ€"and often divergentâ€"perspectives, businesses and housing advocates have many goals in common.