As a recruitment tool. As a retention tool. More efficient than wage increases and bonuses. Reconfigure and reduce the cost of other benefits. Controllable benefit costs. Increased productivity. Improve employee morale. Partner with and receive value from the public and private sectors. Improve security and property values. Improve community relations.

Partner and leverage community development funding with the private sector. Develop a business constituency for affordable housing, community development and targeted growth initiatives. Help bring workforce stability to nonprofit organizations, many of which have public missions and receive other public funding. Have a new and better way of providing outreach for affordable housing services. Structure programs to support smart growth, transit-oriented development and other targeted redevelopment efforts.       Integrate housing and economic development programs in ways that enable a community to keep  employees as residents. Provide a new tool for economic development by helping employers address their own workforce problems. Engage your own workforce as a tool for community development by encouraging public employees to live in designated communities. Set an example for the private sector. Gain the workforce advantages of a housing benefit that the private and nonprofit sector realize when they offer employer-assisted housing programs.