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Introduction to the Project With a general decline in the affordability of housing and a rise in construction costs over the past decade, many state and local governments have been looking for solutions to increase the supply of new affordable housing. Inclusionary housing (IH) ties the creation of affordable, below -market -rate units with new development, and it is a means for creating affordable housing and inclusive communities. Yet, limited research circumscribes our understanding about the similarities and variations of inclusionary housing programs across the nation. To this end, Grounded Solutions Network (GSN) embarked on a large-scale data collection effort between 2018 and 2019 to study inclusionary housing programs' in local jurisdictions. The study covered two main types of IH programs: traditional IH programs, which create affordable units directly or indirectly through payments of in -lieu fees, and linkage/impact fee programs, which generate fees for the development of affordable housing from commercial development, residential development, or both. Results were compiled from a combined review of local housing ordinances along with an online survey completed by local housing agencies. The project had three goals: to create a database of IH programs; to study the prevalence, practices, and production from programs in the resulting database; and to identify potential Duty to Serve (DTS) eligible programs. Inclusionary housing is a means for creating affordable housing and inclusive communities. This report summarizes patterns and trends in the inclusionary housing programs identified and includes breakouts for the three states with the highest number of programs. Whilethe data provided is labeled forsole and forrent, these categories are largely synonymous with single-family homeownership and multifamily rentols.z 'Among other reasons, since some state mandates are codified in local ordinances, the study excluded a separate count of state programs to avoid double counting. Z Rental programs apply to multifamily properties with five or more units. A small minority of rental programs may apply to planned unit developments (PUD) occurring in multiple single-family lots, which may trigger inclusion of single-family affordable rentals.