Housing White Papers & Research
This white paper explores key factors to McLean County’s housing shortage, including population trends, housing inventory, income, and employment, and how these factors shifted between 2019 to 2023.
The Affordable Housing Needs Index identifies which census tracts within the county face the greatest need for affordable housing based on multiple demographic factors.
Read more about the rental rate changes in Bloomington-Normal between 2022 and 2024!
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The concept of affordable housing is complicated and multi-dimensional. Its central principal is that a community’s housing stock should align with the economic status of people seeking housing. Ideally, people at every income bracket will find a selection of housing options that answer their needs but do not demand so much of their income that it limits the household’s ability to obtain other necessities. January 2019 |
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The Bloomington-Normal (BN) Region has seen an increase of housing prices for rental and real-estate properties during the past three years. Changes to residential zoning to allow for different housing typologies such as duplexes and triplexes, is seen as a way to increase housing affordability and housing diversity. With the idea of finding options to increase affordable housing in BN, this white paper was developed to identify policy changes successfully implemented in cities and states in the U.S. to allow for different housing typologies or “missing middle housing” in the typical Detached Single-Family Residential (DSFR) Zones. Learn More
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Income-Qualified Housing refers to housing affordability for households making less than 80% of the area median income. The area median income (AMI) is the household income for the median, or middle, household in a region. |
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