CHPC also stressed the need for preserving and renovating low-rent private housing long before that concept became conventional wisdom.
[1] CHPC's research helped to shape the City's policies regarding the large inventory of tax-foreclosed housing that was abandoned and left to decline in the 1970s and 1980s.
In the 1990s and 2000s, CHPC provided the analysis and advice when the City sought to rethink its policies regarding tax foreclosure and privatization.
They also focused on the City's growth, the transformation of the old industrial landscape into mixed-use areas, inclusionary zoning policies, the critical need to address parking, the actual impact and effects of gentrification, tax policies to encourage housing construction and affordability, the importance and impact of regional housing strategy, global best practice in affordable housing, and intervention after the global economic crisis.
Previous executive directors have included Jessica Katz, Roger Starr and Clarence Stein.