Anatomy of a Preservation Deal: Innovations in Preserving Affordable Housing From Around the United States

August 2016

By: Mark Treskon, Sara McTarnaghan, Urban Institute

https://www.urban.org/research/publication/anatomy-preservation-deal-innovations-preserving-affordable-housing-around-united-states
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Table of Contents

Affordable Housing Programs

This report emphasizes the importance of preserving existing affordable housing in order to maintain affordability more generally. It shares strategies that have worked at the state and local levels to incentivize preservation and summarizes its case studies in Table 1.

Historic Preservation

This report lays out the opportunities and challenges of using historic preservation to maintain and increase affordable housing stock. It uses six case studies to highlight five lessons related to local and state resources, developer capacity, collaboration, local policy context, and policy networks.

Housing Supply Planning

This report emphasizes the importance of preserving existing affordable housing in order to maintain affordability more generally. It uses six case studies to highlight five lessons related to local and state resources, developer capacity, collaboration, local policy context, and policy networks.