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Strengthening Our Workforce and Our Communities Through Housing Solutions
2005This report outlines how chambers of commerce and other business leaders can support local affordable housing initiatives. -
Taking Stock: Rural People, Poverty, and Housing in the 21st Century
December 2012This report discusses pressing rural housing issues and shares five case studies that explore different high poverty regions and populations. -
Affordable Housing, Disasters, and Social Equity: LIHTC as a Tool for Preparedness and Recovery
Journal of the American Planning Association, 86(1): 75-88, 2020by: Aditi Mehta, Mark Brennan, Justin SteilThis article examines what state governments can do to address disaster preparedness and recovery in their LIHTC plans. -
Why Isn’t There Enough Affordable Housing for the Families Who Need It Most?
February 2018by: Maya Brennan, Solomon GreeneThis briefing paper discusses the market challenges to affordable housing development and preservation and policy responses to improve affordability. -
When Affordable Housing Moves in Next Door
October 2016by: Rebecca DiamondThis briefing paper shares the results of a study that looked at the impact of LIHTC-funded affordable housing projects on property values. -
Affordable Housing Policies: An Overview
Cornell Real Estate Review, 14(1): 76-83, 2016by: Anastasia KaluginaThis article is a review of affordable housing policies in the United States. -
A New Chapter
Land Lines, October 2019by: Kathleen McCormickThis article examines the trend of building affordable housing above libraries as a strategy to promote mixed-use spaces. -
Affordable Housing’s Forever Solution
Next City, August 2015by: Jake BlumgartThis article details how community land trusts can be used to achieve neighborhood stability and housing affordability, featuring a case study of Boston’s Dorchester and Roxbury neighborhoods. -
Santa Monica, CA, Municipal Code
Updated August 2021This regulation belongs to the Active Transportation, Affordable Housing Programs, Housing Supply Planning, Shared Mobility, Short-Term Residential Rentals, and Solar Energy collections. -
Cleaning Up House: Developing Brownfields into Affordable Housing
PM Magazine, December 2019by: Marcus Humberg, Martha Faust, Cheryl Ann BishopThis article looks at examples of brownfield remediation and reuse through affordable housing development from Saint Paul, Seattle, and Los Angeles. -
Building a Better Neighborhood Housing Partnership
Housing and Society, 34(2): 187-211, 2007by: Kelly Patterson, Robert SilvermanThis article examines an effort to create a neighborhood housing partnership (NHP) organization in Buffalo, New York. -
Community Benefits Agreements and Local Government: A Review of Recent Evidence
Journal of the American Planning Association, 76(2): 141-159, 2010by: Laura Wolfe-PowersThis article considers how planners should handle community benefits claims by detailing the development and implementation of four community benefits agreements (CBAs). -
Changing Residential Land Use Regulations to Address High Housing Prices: Evidence from Los Angeles
Journal of the American Planning Association, 85(2): 152-168, 2019by: C.J. GabbeThis article tracks the evolution of housing regulations in Los Angeles from 2000 to 2016, showing how the city has enabled the construction of more affordable housing. -
Community Land Trusts
Land Lines, April 2005by: Rosalind Greenstein, Yesim Sungu-EryilmazThis article summarizes a roundtable conversation by housing researchers, funders, and practitioners on the potential of community land trusts to address housing affordability. -
Backyard Brouhaha
Land Lines, April 2019by: Anthony FlintThis article critiques claims by Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) activists that the market can solve the housing crisis if regulatory barriers are removed. -
Community Investment
Land Lines, February 2019by: Alyia GaskinsThis article looks at a partnership between a local government and a hospital system to provide more affordable housing in San Bernardino, California. -
Choose One, Millennials: Upward Mobility or Affordable Housing
November 2014by: Derek ThompsonThis article points out that the cities with the most opportunity for upward mobility often have the least affordable housing, and vice versa. -
Capital Ideas
Land Lines, January 2020by: Liz FarmerThis article looks at an effort to equitably distribute affordable housing in Washington, D.C. -
From Public Housing to Public-Private Housing: 75 Years of American Social Experimentation
Journal of the American Planning Association, 78(4): 379-402, 2012by: Lawrence Vale, Yonah FreemarkThis article tracks the history of public housing development since 1937, showing how the continued retreat of the public sector has led to a lack of housing for very low-income people. -
Does Affordable Housing Detrimentally Affect Property Values? A Review of the Literature
Journal of Planning Literature, 20(1): 15-26, 2005by: Mai Thi NguyenThis article is a literature review on the relationship between affordable housing and property values. -
Hiding in the Shadow of Wagner-Steagall: Understanding Rural Public Housing in the United States
Journal of the American Planning Association, 78(4): 406-414, 2012by: Carlton Basmajian, Jane RongerudeThis article is a literature review of research on rural public housing initiatives that challenges the dominant narrative of failure. -
From Stigma to Housing Fix: The Evolution of Manufactured Homes
Land Lines, January 2018by: Loren BerlinThis article explores the history of manufactured homes and calls for their expanded use as an affordable housing strategy. -
Housing Affordability
Land Lines, June 2019by: Emma ZehnerThis article looks at what the Bay Area is doing to address its affordability crisis at a regional scale. -
Finding ‘Missing Middle’ Housing in Olympia, Washington
The Western Planner, May 2019by: Joyce Phillips, AICP, Leonard Bauer, FAICPThis article details efforts to provide more “missing middle” housing to residents in Olympia, Washington. -
Sand Castles Before the Tide? Affordable Housing in Expensive Cities
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 32(1): 59-80, Winter 2018by: Gabriel MetcalfThis article reviews housing policies in expensive metropolitan areas and explores how local politics prevents many cities from adopting more robust affordable housing provisions. -
Neighborhood Affordability and Housing Market Resilience: Evidence from the U.S. National Foreclosure Recovery
Journal of the American Planning Association, 85(4): 544-563, 2019by: Kyungsoon Wang, Dan ImmergluckThis article explores the relationship between neighborhood affordability and risk of foreclosure in metropolitan areas. -
Mixed Outcome Developments: Comparing Policy Goals to Resident Outcomes in Mixed-Income Housing
Journal of the American Planning Association, 77(2): 143-153, 2011by: Erin GravesThis article questions the extent to which mixed-income housing development passively benefits low-income residents. -
Measuring Informal Housing Production in California Cities
Journal of the American Planning Association, 83(2): 119-130, 2017by: Jake Wegmann, Sarah MawhorterThis article looks at the extent to which informal housing production is meeting affordable housing needs in California. -
Razing Lafitte: Defending Public Housing from a Hostile State
Journal of the American Planning Association, 78(4): 466-480, 2012by: Leigh GrahamThis article looks at the role of advocates and of the state in the demolition of Lafitte public housing and its replacement with a mixed-income development in post-Katrina New Orleans. -
Mixed-Income Housing: Factors for Success
Cityscape, 3(2): 3-31, 1997by: Paul Brophy, Rhonda SmithThis article examines seven mixed-income housing developments to illustrate the success of the federal HOPE-VI program and to provide guidance to housing practitioners. -
Rezoning History
Land Lines, January 2020by: Kathleen McCormickThis article looks at the elimination of single-family zoning in Minneapolis and its impact on affordability and equity. -
New Florida Keys Cottages Are Storm-Proof Affordable Housing
CityLab, August 2018by: Nicole JavorskyThis article highlights the challenges of providing affordable housing for workers in the Florida Keys given the threat of natural disaster. -
Providing Affordable Housing
Planning Commissioners Journal, 45: 1-3, Winter 2002by: Michael Bodaken, Anne HeitlingerThis article considers what local and state officials can do to improve affordable housing conditions through zoning, taxation, housing trust funds, and planning. -
The Spatial Pattern of Low Income Housing Tax Credit Properties: Implications for Fair Housing and Poverty Deconcentration Policies
Journal of the American Planning Association, 79(3): 222-234, 2013by: Casey DawkinsThis article finds that clustered Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) properties are more concentrated in neighborhoods with high poverty rates and minority populations. -
The Strange Career of Public Housing: Policy, Planning, and the American Metropolis in the Twentieth Century
Journal of the American Planning Association, 78(4): 360-375, 2012by: Joseph HeathcottThis article argues that the success or failure of a public housing development has to do with big, long-term forces in the cities in which they are located. -
The Other Affordable Housing Crisis
CityLab, September 2015by: Daniel DenvirThis article highlights the role of mobile home parks in meeting housing needs and discusses the precarity that many residents face due to not owning the land. -
The Search for Affordable Housing Is Pushing the Middle Class to the Exurbs
CityLab, April 2014by: Richard FloridaThis article explores the relationship between housing affordability and sprawl. -
The Environmental Case for Affordable Housing
NRDC, July 14, 2016by: Ramya SivasubramanianThis blog post explains the environmental benefits of building affordable rental housing near transit at a large scale. -
Energy Efficiency for All
FS: 14-03-C, March 2014by: Cai StegerThis fact sheet outlines the benefits of implementing energy efficiency strategies in affordable housing for building owners and for tenants. -
Who, Why, and How Communities Oppose Affordable Housing
Shelterforce, April 23, 2014by: Corianne Payton ScallyThis blog post is the third in a series that shares the results of a survey sent to affordable housing developers in New York. -
Will Upzoning Neighborhoods Make Homes More Affordable?
Curbed, January 30, 2020by: Diana BuddsThis blog post asks whether single-family zoning is the force behind the housing affordability crisis. -
AMI and Housing Affordability
March 2018This fact sheet details how to calculate affordable rents and purchase prices for residents at 30%, 50%, and 80% of area median income (AMI). -
State and District Fact Sheets
July 2019These fact sheets highlight the need for affordable housing and the benefits of the Housing Credit for low-income families and the economy in the United States and in each state and congressional district. -
Ann Arbor, MI, Capital Improvement Planning
2018This web page provides a link to the city’s current capital improvements plan and provides information about the CIP process. -
4657 West Madison Street, Chicago: Anatomy of a Preservation Deal
Anatomy of a Preservation Deal, August 2016by: Mark Treskon, Sara McTarnaghanThis case study describes how a community development financial institution (CDFI) provided the financing necessary to rehabilitate a mixed-use structure in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago. -
Affordable Housing Regulatory Tools Case Studies
December 2010by: Alexandria Office of HousingThese case studies highlight strategies used in cities across the United States for promoting the development and preservation of affordable housing. -
Putnam Square Apartments, Cambridge: Anatomy of a Preservation Deal
Anatomy of a Preservation Deal, August 2016by: Mark Treskon, Sara McTarnaghanThis case study shows how the state of Massachusetts’s 40T statute helped preserve an affordable housing development that serves seniors and disabled residents in Cambridge. -
PRO Neighborhoods: Innovative Strategies for Affordable Housing
2019by: Alexander Von Hoffman, Matthew ArckThese case studies feature five projects working to develop or preserve affordable housing from cities across the United States. -
Seward Towers, Minneapolis: Anatomy of a Preservation Deal
Anatomy of a Preservation Deal, August 2016by: Mark Treskon, Sara McTarnaghanThis case study details how the renovation of a large affordable housing development in Minneapolis was accomplished with creative financing and minimal disruption to residents. -
Vida Lea Mobile Estates, Oregon: Anatomy of a Preservation Deal
Anatomy of a Preservation Deal, August 2016by: Mark Treskon, Sara McTarnaghanThis case study details how residents of a mobile home park in rural Oregon mobilized to purchase the park through a resident-owned community model.