Janisse saysAustin is one of the fastest-growing US cities and suffers from thethird worst traffic congestion.
AUSTIN, TX—The metro will need 135,000 units consisting of a mixof low income and market rate properties in the next decade inorder to meet the affordable housing shortage that is reaching crisis levels here and in most other major citiesaround the country. One company is focused on making a differencein this crisis. Rainbow Housing Assistance Corporation providesresident service programs for residents of low-income housing communities across the nation, with a large presence inTexas.
Flynann Janisse, executive director of Rainbow HousingAssistance Corporation, recently attended the Texas AffiliatedAffordable Housing Providers 2018 conference here, where she spokeon a panel titled “Resident Empowerment through InnovativeWrap-Around Services.” In this exclusive, Janissediscussed the state of the affordable housing market in Austin,identifying the low-income housing needs of residents and some ofthe key elements to designing low-income housing programs.
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Lisa Brown
Lisa Brown is an editor for the south and west regions of GlobeSt.com. She has 25-plus years of real estate experience, with a regional PR role at Grubb & Ellis and a national communications position at MMI. Brown also spent 10 years as executive director at NAIOP San Francisco Bay Area chapter, where she led the organization to achieving its first national award honors and recognition on Capitol Hill. She has written extensively on commercial real estate topics and edited numerous pieces on the subject.
