Housing Affordability

Author : Shane Phillips
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781642831337

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The Affordable City by Shane Phillips Pdf

From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crises of high housing costs and household instability. Debates over the appropriate course of action have been defined by two poles: building more housing or enacting stronger tenant protections. These options are often treated as mutually exclusive, with support for one implying opposition to the other. Shane Phillips believes that effectively tackling the housing crisis requires that cities support both tenant protections and housing abundance. He offers readers more than 50 policy recommendations, beginning with a set of principles and general recommendations that should apply to all housing policy. The remaining recommendations are organized by what he calls the Three S’s of Supply, Stability, and Subsidy. Phillips makes a moral and economic case for why each is essential and recommendations for making them work together. There is no single solution to the housing crisis—it will require a comprehensive approach backed by strong, diverse coalitions. The Affordable City is an essential tool for professionals and advocates working to improve affordability and increase community resilience through local action.

Author : Alex Bozikovic,Cheryll Case,John Lorinc,Annabel Vaughan
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781770565937

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House Divided by Alex Bozikovic,Cheryll Case,John Lorinc,Annabel Vaughan Pdf

Housing is increasingly unattainable in successful global cities, and Toronto is no exception -- in part because of zoning that protects “stable” residential neighborhoods with high property values. House Divided is a citizen’s guide for changing the way housing can work in big cities. Using Toronto as a case study, this anthology unpacks the affordability crisis and offers innovative ideas for creating housing for all ages and demographic groups. With charts, maps, data, and policy prescriptions, House Divided poses tough questions about the issue that will make or break the global city of the future.

Author : Arthur C. Nelson,Liza K. Bowles,Julian C. Juergensmeyer,James C. Nicholas
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610910842

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A Guide to Impact Fees and Housing Affordability by Arthur C. Nelson,Liza K. Bowles,Julian C. Juergensmeyer,James C. Nicholas Pdf

Impact fees are one-time charges that are applied to new residential developments by local governments that are seeking funds to pay for the construction or expansion of public facilities, such as water and sewer systems, schools, libraries, and parks and recreation facilities. In the face of taxpayer revolts against increases in property taxes, impact fees are used increasingly by local governments throughout the U.S. to finance construction or improvement of their infrastructure. Recent estimates suggest that 60 percent of all American cities with over 25,000 residents use some form of impact fees. In California, it is estimated that 90 percent of such cities impose impact fees. For more than thirty years, impact fees have been calculated based on proportionate share of the cost of the infrastructure improvements that are to be funded by the fees. However, neither laws nor courts have ensured that fees charged to new homes are themselves proportionate. For example, the impact fee may be the same for every home in a new development, even when homes vary widely in size and selling price. Data show, however, that smaller and less costly homes have fewer people living in them and thus less impact on facilities than larger homes. This use of a flat impact fee for all residential units disproportionately affects lower-income residents. The purpose of this guidebook is to help practitioners design impact fees that are equitable. It demonstrates exactly how a fair impact fee program can be designed and implemented. In addition, it includes information on the history of impact fees, discusses alternatives to impact fees, and summarizes state legislation that can infl uence the design of local fee programs. Case studies provide useful illustrations of successful programs. This book should be the first place that planning professionals, public officials, land use lawyers, developers, homebuilders, and citizen activists turn for help in crafting (or recrafting) proportionate-share impact fee programs.

Author : Meen, Geoffrey,Whitehead, Christine
Publisher : Bristol University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781529211863

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Understanding Affordability by Meen, Geoffrey,Whitehead, Christine Pdf

For many younger and lower-income people, housing affordability continues to worsen. Based on the academic research of two distinguished housing economists – and stimulated by working with governments across the world - this wide-ranging book sets out clear theoretical and empirical frameworks to tackle one of today’s most important socio-economic issues. Housing unaffordability arises from complex forces and a prerequisite to effective policy is understanding the causes of rising house prices and rents and the interactions between housing, housing finance and the macroeconomy. The authors challenge many of the conventional wisdoms in housing policy and offer innovative recommendations to improve affordability.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264382978

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Strengthening Latvia’s Housing Affordability Fund by OECD Pdf

The Latvian government established the Housing Affordability Fund in mid-2022, a long-term self-sustaining financing model to channel investment into affordable housing. The fund is now being scaled up to ensure lasting impact on the Latvian housing market. This report identifies options for institutional arrangements, funding and financing opportunities, and operational tools to achieve this aim.

Author : Marco Peverini
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031436925

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Promoting Rental Housing Affordability in European Cities by Marco Peverini Pdf

This book investigates policies for the promotion of housing affordability in the rental sector of attractive cities in Europe. Affordability links the housing situation to the economic situation of households, referring to conditions of access to housing and to the role of housing in determining poverty or wealth. The book examines the current affordability crisis and frames it in the ongoing process of urban restructuring and devolution of welfare. From the perspective of the Foundational Economy, the book calls for a proactive and effective role of public administrations in making the rental sector an affordable and stable alternative to housing financialization and commodification. By intertwining theory construction and real-world data collected through case studies in Milan and Vienna, the book provides an original framework for the analysis of public policies that promote rental affordability in a multi-level setting. Through the analysis, it highlights critical nodes of the different (housing, urban, and social) policy domains at stake in the promotion of rental affordability in attractive cities. The book proposes a shift from the currently dominant supply-side argument to an integrated, intersectoral and multi-scalar policy system for making cities more affordable.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000048701723

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Housing Affordability and Availability by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264417892

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OECD Urban Studies Housing Affordability in Cities in the Czech Republic by OECD Pdf

While the full effects of the COVID-19 crisis on housing affordability in cities in the Czech Republic remain to be seen, the pandemic has reinforced the urgency of tackling pre-existing challenges, such as a consistent shortage of housing supply in cities and structural obstacles for urban households to access affordable housing.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Home ownership
ISBN : PURD:32754073717575

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Housing Affordability for America Act of 2002 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Housing
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045154510

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Rental Housing Affordability for Low-and Moderate-income People by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development Pdf

Author : Daniel G. Parolek
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781642830545

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Missing Middle Housing by Daniel G. Parolek Pdf

Today, there is a tremendous mismatch between the available housing stock in the US and the housing options that people want and need. The post-WWII, auto-centric, single-family-development model no longer meets the needs of residents. Urban areas in the US are experiencing dramatically shifting household and cultural demographics and a growing demand for walkable urban living. Missing Middle Housing, a term coined by Daniel Parolek, describes the walkable, desirable, yet attainable housing that many people across the country are struggling to find. Missing Middle Housing types—such as duplexes, fourplexes, and bungalow courts—can provide options along a spectrum of affordability. In Missing Middle Housing, Parolek, an architect and urban designer, illustrates the power of these housing types to meet today’s diverse housing needs. With the benefit of beautiful full-color graphics, Parolek goes into depth about the benefits and qualities of Missing Middle Housing. The book demonstrates why more developers should be building Missing Middle Housing and defines the barriers cities need to remove to enable it to be built. Case studies of built projects show what is possible, from the Prairie Queen Neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska to the Sonoma Wildfire Cottages, in California. A chapter from urban scholar Arthur C. Nelson uses data analysis to highlight the urgency to deliver Missing Middle Housing. Parolek proves that density is too blunt of an instrument to effectively regulate for twenty-first-century housing needs. Complete industries and systems will have to be rethought to help deliver the broad range of Missing Middle Housing needed to meet the demand, as this book shows. Whether you are a planner, architect, builder, or city leader, Missing Middle Housing will help you think differently about how to address housing needs for today’s communities.

Author : Mr.Troy D Matheson
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513510699

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Balancing Financial Stability and Housing Affordability: The Case of Canada by Mr.Troy D Matheson Pdf

Housing market imbalances are a key source of systemic risk and can adversely affect housing affordability. This paper utilizes a stylized model of the Canadian economy that includes policymakers with differing objectives—macroeconomic stability, financial stability, and housing affordability. Not surprisingly, when faced with multiple objectives, deploying more policy instruments can lead to better outcomes. The results show that macroprudential policy can be more effective than policies based on adjusting propertytransfer taxes because property-tax policy entails excessive volatility in tax rates. They also show that if property-transfer taxes are used as a policy instrument, taxes targeted at a broader-set of homebuyers can be more effective than measures targeted at a smaller subset of homebuyers, such as nonresident homebuyers.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Policy Research and Insurance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Home ownership
ISBN : PSU:000017158640

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Regulatory Impediments to the Development and Placement of Affordable Housing by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Policy Research and Insurance Pdf

Author : Global Green USA
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781597267465

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Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing by Global Green USA Pdf

Blueprint for Green Affordable Housing is a guide for housing developers, advocates, public agency staff, and the financial community that offers specific guidance on incorporating green building strategies into the design, construction, and operation of affordable housing developments. A completely revised and expanded second edition of the groundbreaking 1999 publication, this new book focuses on topics of specific relevance to affordable housing including: how green building adds value to affordable housing the integrated design process best practices in green design for affordable housing green operations and maintenance innovative funding and finance emerging programs, partnerships, and policies Edited by national green affordable housing expert Walker Wells and featuring a foreword by Matt Petersen, president and chief executive officer of Global Green USA, the book presents 12 case studies of model developments and projects, including rental, home ownership, special needs, senior, self-help, and co-housing from around the United States. Each case study describes the unique green features of the development, discusses how they were successfully incorporated, considers the project's financing and savings associated with the green measures, and outlines lessons learned. Blueprint for Green Affordable Housing is the first book of its kind to present information regarding green building that is specifically tailored to the affordable housing development community.

Author : Elizabeth J. Mueller,J. Rosie Tighe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135746391

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The Affordable Housing Reader by Elizabeth J. Mueller,J. Rosie Tighe Pdf

The Affordable Housing Reader brings together classic works and contemporary writing on the themes and debates that have animated the field of affordable housing policy as well as the challenges in achieving the goals of policy on the ground. The Reader – aimed at professors, students, and researchers – provides an overview of the literature on housing policy and planning that is both comprehensive and interdisciplinary. It is particularly suited for graduate and undergraduate courses on housing policy offered to students of public policy and city planning. The Reader is structured around the key debates in affordable housing, ranging from the conflicting motivations for housing policy, through analysis of the causes of and solutions to housing problems, to concerns about gentrification and housing and race. Each debate is contextualized in an introductory essay by the editors, and illustrated with a range of texts and articles. Elizabeth Mueller and Rosie Tighe have brought together for the first time into a single volume the best and most influential writings on housing and its importance for planners and policy-makers.