While most reports highlight the benefits of mixed-income housing, others point to its failures, citing research showing that these projects have not worked well.

Following are the most cited problems of mixed-income housing development.

ÁLVAREZ-DÍAZ & VILLALÓN WINS THE MULTI-HOUSING NEWS -EXCELLENCE AWARD

We are excited to announce that for the second time in three years, our firm was honored with a Multi-Housing News Excellence Award! This year our Renaissance Square project was awarded the Multi-Housing News Excellence Award, this time winning a Bronze Excellence Award in the “Design Affordable” categor

Well-designed affordable housing should do more than provide adequate, accessible and inexpensive shelter to lower-income households.

In addition to being resilient itself, a successful affordable housing project should contribute to the resilience of its community and city. Resilient placemaking can transform disconnected neighborhoods into thriving cities.

Renaissance Square (previously known as Las Gladiolas Community Development) wins Multi-Housing News Excellence Gold Award

In a recent event hosted by Multi-Housing News and Commercial Property Executive in New York City, AD&V was acknowledged for its application of traditional architecture, one that is both aesthetically pleasing and respectful of its surroundings.

Public housing has a decades-long reputation for concentrating poverty, increasing crime, encouraging welfare dependency and causing urban decline.

One way the U.S. has addressed the public housing problem and sought urban revitalization is to replace low-income housing with mixed-income housing developments.

Has it worked? It depends on whom you ask. 

Study: Low-Income Housing Does Not Lower Nearby Home Values

For years, a common and strong objection to affordable housing development has been that it lowers the real estate value of homes in the surrounding areas. That, it turns out, is a myth.

Research shows that affordable housing does not have a long-term negative impact on nearby property values.

Eviction Vicious Cycle Crushes Families, Communities and Entire Neighborhoods.

Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," written by Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond, put the spotlight on the extreme hardships and trauma that evictions inflict on low-income families.

A new study by real estate website Redfin estimates that 2.7 million renters in the U.S. faced in 2015. This number is likely to come short of reality because of the lack of eviction data and because many evictions happen outside the court system.

How Other Countries Are Tackling Their Affordable Housing Problem

While the U.S. continues to experience a stubborn housing crisis, it could learn a thing or two from other countries that are managing their affordable housing issues more effectively.

Unaffordability in the U.S.

An increasing number of Americans are struggling to pay the rent, an estimated 2.5 million of them getting evicted each year. Evidently, government programs designed to help low-income folks get adequate, affordable housing are failing or not doing enough to put a dent on the affordable housing crisis.

There's no quick fix for the affordable housing crisis, but we can begin to change that.

Housing affordability is one of the biggest problems affecting our society today, one that is difficult to define and even more difficult to solve—hence our current affordable housing crisis.

There is not enough affordable housing in the United States. For every 100 low-income households in need of affordable housing, there are 29 adequate, available units, according to Mapping America, a project by the Urban Land Institute's Assisted Housing Initiative.

The benefits of mixed-income affordable housing are abundant.

Affordable Housing Development can improve the individual lives of residents and support the local workforce by providing well-constructed, decent housing while revitalizing distressed neighborhoods, promoting social integration, boosting an area's economic health and building communities.