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Low Income/Subsidized Rental Housing
Housing programs that make rental housing more readily available to homeless people and/or low-income individuals and families. Some complexes or housing units may be reserved for low-income older adults, people with disabilities and/or other special populations.
Market Rate Housing
Housing units that can be rented or purchased on an unsubsidized basis at market rates.
Subsidized Home Acquisition
Programs that make housing more readily available to middle or low-income individuals and families or other identified groups by offering lower priced or cooperative housing and/or affordable payment plans, arranging for interest or mortgage subsidies for people who qualify on the basis of income, or by providing mortgage-free homes, generally for designated populations.
The above terms and definitions are part of the Taxonomy of Human Services, used here by permission of INFO LINE of Los Angeles.