Oklahoma City Unveils First Citywide Housing Strategy: More Than $130 Million Over Ten Years for Affordable Homes
Oklahoma City's planning department presented the city's first citywide housing strategy to the City Council on November 10, planning to invest more than $130 million over the next decade in affordable housing to address affordability challenges across the city. Funding sources include the MAPS 4 program, Oklahoma City's 2025 municipal bonds, the Community Development Block Grant, and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's HOME Investment Partnerships Program.
Working with partners, the strategy aims to add 4,000 homes a year at all price levels citywide, while preserving or repairing 1,000 existing homes a year. Shannon Ence, the city's housing strategy implementation manager, told the council that about 77,000 households in the city are cost-burdened, spending more than 30% of their income on housing. The city's eviction rate reached 14% in 2024, seven percentage points above the national average. Over the past decade the city has invested $100 million to add 3,000 affordable homes, including the Alleyway Apartments and Westport Apartments; rebuilding of Will Rogers Courts, the city's largest public housing project, is in planning, backed by a $25.1 million HUD Choice Neighborhoods grant.
Source: City of Oklahoma City
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