this study to further confirm that the rate of erosion in this supply will make it impossible to realize the National Housing Strategy’s goals of maintaining or even expanding net affordable rental stock if this loss continues.
But even if filtering were somehow to take place in the future, it would still represent a problematic inversion of moral priorities to rely on this logic in thinking about how we respond to the housing crisis. A truly progressive housing policy will focus first on those who are harmed the most in our housing crisis — those who experience displacement, homelessness, and other forms of housing insecurity.