2012 Zogby Poll Results

In the 2012 Zogby International Poll, respondents were asked a series of questions regarding affordable housing spending by the federal government. Overall responses were often evenly split, although with some deeper digging there are some differences between demographic subgroups. Key findings in this years’ poll are as follows:

  • More than half of respondents think the federal government is spending the right amount or not enough on programs that make housing affordable for low-and moderate-income Americans, while only a quarter think the federal government spends too much.
  • A plurality of respondents think affordable housing programs should be exempted from across-the-board cuts.
  • Sixty one percent of respondents think it’s important that affordable housing programs not be unfairly targeted for funding cuts as part of deficit reduction efforts, while only 30 percent think it’s unimportant.
  • When respondents considered the places where they live, 69 percent said that it was important to them that affordable homeownership and rental housing options for homeownership and rental be available in their own communities. Only 19 percent of respondents said it was unimportant.
  • Even when they consider the current fiscal climate and the federal deficit, nearly half (49 percent) of respondents support an increase in funding for affordable housing programs if that increase is funded from a reduction in a different area of the federal budget.  Only 29 percent oppose such an increase.
**Among those supporting an increase, the most popular choices for paying for the increase were 1) deficit spending (42 percent) and 2) cuts to defense spending (41 percent). 

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