“Affordable housing strategies that include the preservation of both multifamily and single-family rental housing can be important to increasing access to High Opportunity Areas and the economic mobility that might result.” --Corey Aber, Senior Director of Multifamily Mission, Policy and Strategy with Freddie Mac, McLean, Va.

As states and localities seek to provide economic incentives to create new housing supply, they must also consider how to leverage the existing rental housing stock, said Freddie Mac, McLean, Va.