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Brookings, OR, Housing Needs Assessment
October 2017by: South Coast Development Council, Inc.This report is a housing needs assessment for Brookings, Oregon and nearby unincorporated portions of Curry County. -
Bozeman, MT, Community Housing Needs Assessment
February 2019by: Wendy Sullivan, Christine WalkerThis report is a housing needs assessment for Bozeman, Montana. -
Bowling Green, KY, Housing Needs Assessment
June 2019by: Bowen National Research, Patrick BowenThis report is a housing needs assessment for Bowling Green, Kentucky. -
Affordable Housing Needs Assessment for the District of Columbia
May 2015by: Peter Tatian, Josh Leopold, Elizabeth OoThis report is a housing needs assessment for Washington, D.C., conducted on behalf of the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development. -
Boise, ID, 2015 Housing Needs Analysis
October 2015by: Agnew::Beck, RPI ConsultingThis report is a housing needs assessment for Boise, Idaho. -
Bath Area, ME, Housing Assessment
November 2014by: Planning Decisions Inc.This report is a housing needs assessment for the city of Bath, Maine, the service area of Bath Housing Development Corporation, and the regional real estate market area. -
Roseville, MN, Update Comprehensive Housing Needs Assessment
October 2018by: Maxfield Research & ConsultingThis report is a housing needs assessment for Roseville, Minnesota. -
Milwaukee, WI, Housing Affordability Report
Updated December 2023This report assesses housing affordability in Milwaukee. -
Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester, SC, Housing Needs Assessment
February 2014This report is a housing needs assessment for the Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester region of South Carolina. -
Colorado Springs, CO, PlanCOS
Updated 2020This comprehensive plan belongs to the Autonomous Vehicles, Comprehensive Planning, Housing Supply Planning, and Smart Cities collections. -
Local Housing Solutions: Analyze
Updated 2020by: NYU Furman Center, Abt AssociatesThis web page supports communities looking to analyze data to understand housing needs, gauge development feasibility, and monitor progress on implementing a housing strategy. -
Webinar: Understanding Housing Needs in Your Community Using Data from the American Community Survey
February 2015by: Lisa SturtevantThis recorded webinar explains how to use data from the American Community Survey to assess local housing needs. -
To Address Tight Housing Inventory, We Need Better Measures of Housing Supply
The Avenue, February 1, 2018by: Jenny Schuetz, Cecile MurrayThis blog post discusses the need for a standard metric to assess the supply and demand of housing and explores some of the opportunities and challenges of developing one. -
Paycheck to Paycheck
Updated 2024This web page allows users to explore the affordability of housing for workers in different occupations in metropolitan areas. -
Big Sky, MT, Housing Needs Assessment
September 2022by: Wendy Sullivan, Christine Walker, NoneThis report is a housing needs assessment for Big Sky, Montana. -
Blaine County, ID, County Code
Updated October 2023The county's code encourages the use of accessory solar energy systems in all zoning districts and provides solar siting considerations for planned unit development (PUD) proposals. -
Colorado Springs, CO, Affordable Housing Needs Assessment
October 2014by: Mullin & Lonergan Assoc IncThis report is a housing needs assessment for the city of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and El Paso County. -
Housing Need and Demand Study
March 2010This model report provides a template to help cities in British Columbia assess their affordable housing needs. -
Washington, DC, Green Infrastructure Standards
2014by: Terry Bellamy, Ronaldo Nicholson, Muhammed KhalidThis guide presents green infrastructure standards for projects led by the District of Columbia Department of Transportation. -
Kent, WA, Comprehensive Plan
Updated February 2015The city’s comprehensive plan encourages the use of low-impact development (LID) tactics for improved onsite hydrological performance. -
Best Management Practices for Creating a Community Wildfire Protection Plan
2011by: Pamela Jakes, Christine Esposito, Sam BurnsThis report presents best management practices pertaining to CWPPs development and implementation based on 13 communities in 8 states. -
Adaptive Management for Ecosystem Services Across the Wildland-Urban Interface
International Journal of the Commons, October 2020by: Robin Craig, J. RuhlThis article discusses how adaptive management and the wildland-urban interface can cut down on undesirable devlopment, wildfire disasters, and ecosystem management. -
Biotic and Abiotic Effects of Human Settlements in the Wildland-Urban Interface
American Institute of Biological Sciences, BioScience, Vol. 64, Issue 5, April 2014by: Avi Bar-Massada, Volker Radeloff, Susan StewartThis article discusses how the wildland-urban interface, while normally talked about as a wildfire risk to areas, also hosts other just as serious risks to the built and natural environment. -
Engagement in Local and Collaborative Wildfire Risk Mitigation Planning Across the Western U.S. - Evaluating Participation and Diversity in Community Wildfire Protection Plans
PLOS One, February 2022by: Cody Evers, Emily Palsa, Matt Bauer, Matt Hamilton, Max Nielsen-PincusThis article analyzes the process of Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP) and their connection with local and state level stakeholders. -
Community Wildfire Protection Planning in the American West: Homogeneity Within Diversity
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, May 2015by: Jesse Abrams, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Travis Paveglio, Cassandra MoseleyThis article analyzes 113 community wildfire protection plans in 10 of Americas Western states that have had large wild fires. -
Exploring the Influence of Local Scoial Context on Strategies for Achieving Fire Adapted Communities
Fire, May 2019by: Travis Paveglio, Catrin Edgeley, Matthew Carroll, Mark Billings, Amanda StasiewiczThis article looks to analyze the effective way to link social, residential, professional, and local officials and how these groups can create a Fire Adapted Community. -
Community Wildfire Protection Plans: Enhancing Collaboration and Building Social Capacity
JFSP Research Project Reports, 2009by: Daniel Williams, Kristen Nelson, Pamela Jakes, Sam Burns, Antony ChengThis article discusses community wildfire protection plans and analyzing what makes effective consistently collaborative plans. -
Rapid Growth of the US Wildland-Urban Interface Raises Wildfire Risk
March 2018by: Volker Radeloff, David Helmers, H. Kramer, Susan StewartThis article discusses how growth over the last 30 years has been predominantly in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) which increased wildfire risk as well as risk to lives and homes. -
Reducing Wildfire Risk in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Policy, Trends, and Solutions
Idaho Law Review, 2019by: Kimiko BarrettThis article discusses how cities and communities can better prevent and mitigate wildfire risk with land use planning tools such as community plans, regulations, and incentive-based programs. -
The Global Wildland-Urban Interface
Nature, July 2023by: Miranda Mockrin, Franz Schug, Avi Bar-Massada, Amanda Carlson, Heather Cox, Todd Hawbaker, David Helmers, Patrick Hostert, Dominik Kaim, Neda Kasraee, Sebastian Martinuzzi, Kira Pfoch, Volker RadeloffThis article discuss and shows a detailed map of the Wildland-Urban Interface as of 2020 utilizing remote sensing-derived approach. -
Land Use Planning Wildfire: Development Policies Influences Future Probability of Housing Loss
PLOS ONE, August 2013by: Alexandra Syphard, Avi Massada, Van Butsic, Jon KeeleyThis article discusses how land use planning a contemporary urban planning method is being used as a novel way for fire management planning. -
Land Use in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Urban Sprawl and Smart Growth
FOR199, March 2023This fact sheet presents brief descriptions of a few solutions to Wildland-Urban Interface development. -
The Impact of Residential Development Pattern on Wildland Fire Suppression Expenditures
Land Economics, November 2016by: Benjamin Rashford, Scott Lieske, Roger Coupal, Shannon AlbekeThis article discusses how even with vast amounts of economic of wildland fire suppression the change in development has not been effected. -
Regulating the Wildland-Urban Interface in Colorado
September 2022by: Molly Mowery, AICP, Julia KalishThis case study seeks to analyze the built environment of Colorado Springs, Eagle County, Ouray County, Colorado after the 2021 Marshall Fire burned through Colorado communities. -
The Unequal Vulnerability of Communities of Color to Wildfire
November 2018by: Ian Davies, Ryan Haugo, James Robertson, Phillip LevinThis article discusses how many of the worlds but environmental disasters disproportionately impact those of marginalized or minority populations, however in the United States that opposite seems to be happening with Wildland-Urban Interface disasters. -
The Wildland-Urban Interface in the United States
June 2005by: V Radeloff, R Hammer, S Stewart, J Fried, S Holcomb, J McKeefryThis article analyzes how land-use patterns have an effect on both the spatial environment and the biodiversity in the region and how these both equate to the Wildland-Urban Interface. -
Santa Clara County, CA, Community Wildfire Protection Plan
August 2016This functional plan emphasizes outlining a mitigation and preparedness plan, and the establishment of collaborative relationships with state and federal agencies before an event occurs. -
California Wildland-Urban Interface Planning Guide
August 2022This guide is designed to help communities mitigate wildfire risk associated with planning and development in California's wildland-urban interface. -
Sample Wildfire Hazard Zoning
Land Use Series, September 2013by: Bradley Neumann, AICPThis is a model WUI code that addresses minimum safety guidelines for new and existing buildings, facilities, storage, and processes in Michigan local governments. -
Montana Guidelines for Development within the Wildland-Urban Interface
2009This guide is designed to help Montana communities mitigate wildfire risk associated with development in the wildland-urban interface. . -
Creating a Community Wildfire Protection Plan
May 2020This guide is designed to help communities mitigate wildfire risk associated with development in the wildland-urban interface by a federal agency. -
U of O Community Wildfire Protection Plan Evaluation Guide
August 2008This guide is designed to help communities mitigate wildfire risk associated with development in the wildland-urban interface and access their community wildfire protection plan. -
Living on the Edge - The Wildland/Urban Interface
Friends of Tree City USA, No. 63, 2018This guide is designed to help communities mitigate wildfire risk associated with development in the wildland-urban interface. -
Canada: National Guide for Wildland-Urban Interface Fires
2021by: N Benichou, M Adelzadeh, J Singh, I Gomaa, N Elsagan, M Kinateder, C Ma, A Gaur, A Bwalya, M SultanThis guide is designed to help communities mitigate wildfire at the national stage for Canadian communities at risk of the wildland-urban interface development. -
SmartCode Modules: Fire Mitigation
2010by: Martin DreilingThis is a model comprehensive WUI code addresses minimum safety guidelines for any planning areas that fall within a Fire Hazard Severity Zone. -
International Wildland Urban Interface Code
2015This model comprehensive WUI code provides safety guidelines and regulations related to building and fire codes. It is consistent with the national best practices and aims to protect life and property. -
California General Plan Fire Hazard Planning Technical Advisory
August 2022This report, part of the General Plan Technical Advice Series, is designed to help planners, cities, and developers understand the relationship between increased development and wildfire risk. -
Land Use Planning Approaches in the Wildland-Urban Interface
August 2021This report is designed to analyze planners and developers land use practices in wildland-urban interfaces to better understand the relationship between increased development and wildfire risk and their fire regulations. -
Ready For Wildfire “READY, SET, GO!” Campaign Toolkit
2017This toolkit aims to educate and prepare communities in California about wildfire events. -
NACo County Wildfire Playbook
2019This toolkit is designed to help educate and prepare the public at the national level for county officials for wildfire events.