The Potential for Supporting Low-Income Renters Through Transportation Spending

The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) marked the largest single investment in the United States' public works in decades. Over the next five years, it will fund thousands of investments in transportation and energy across several systems nationwide. Despite the IIJA’s potential to upgrade these elements of the country’s infrastructure, the appropriations noticeably overlook housing. The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and the Urban Institute convened a workshop of stakeholders and policymakers in fall 2022 to identify potential mechanisms to leverage the law’s sizable transportation investments for affordable housing preservation, development, and access.