PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Although
different organizations assess housing conditions on a regular basis, currently,
no coordinated system for measuring housing conditions exists in Travis County.
The Community Action Network (CAN) is dedicated to developing housing performance
measures that will enable the community to track its progress in achieving the
goals identified in the Community Assessment vision statement:
Austin/Travis County will be a community where all persons will have
the opportunity to live in safe, decent, and affordable housing.
One way to capture changes in the housing system over time is to utilize regularly
published federal, state, and local data as outcome indicators. For example,
in the current assessment, the percentage of Austin/Travis County residents
who pay more than 30 percent of their income on housing, and the number of eligible
residents who are on a waiting list for publicly-subsidized housing have all
been examined. These indicators can serve as a baseline measurement for future
assessments.
When the next assessment on housing is conducted, the same statistics can be
reviewed to determine what changes have occurred since the last assessment.
Listed below are some suggested housing indicators.
Table 7.
Suggested 1999 Community Indicators for Housing
| TYPE
OF INDICATOR |
DESCRIPTION
|
| Quantitative |
- The percentage of Austin/Travis County residents who
pay more than 30% of their income on housing.
- Proportion of eligible residents who apply for publicly-subsidized
housing compared to the number of publicly-subsidized units available.
- Length of waiting lists for public housing assistance.
- The percentage of families that can afford the median
priced home in Austin/Travis County compared to other cities in Texas.
- The percentage of reasonably priced homes (less than
$85,000) and median price of two-bedroom apartment.
- The amount and use of funding for Housing in the community.
- The percentage of minorities who receive home loans
compared to Whites.
|
| Qualitative |
- Current housing conditions as reported by the Community
Action Network's Working Group on Affordable Housing - Present results
from previous year's report to get feedback on how conditions have changed
and/or improved.
- Implementation of a Housing Trust Fund and accomplishments.
- Initiation or development of mixed-income neighborhoods.
- Indication or passage of legislation to change the
Fair Housing Act to prevent discrimination of potential tenants based
on their source of funding.
- Passage of legislation to prohibit and/or improve substandard
developments in rural areas of Texas.
- Adoption of a joint affordable housing policy that
includes a comprehensive list of neighborhood impacts that all housing
developments must address (i.e.: traffic, safety, schools, etc.).
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