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Omaha Leverages Public-Private Partnerships to Increase Housing Supply
With an eye on equity, layering funding sources creates a revolving loan fund for developing or refurbishing housing.by: Jon DePaolisWith an eye on equity, layering funding sources creates a revolving loan fund for developing or refurbishing housing. -
Climate-impacted Native Alaskan Towns Seek Solutions in Manufactured Housing
Melting permafrost and a lack of labor add challenges to residential home building.by: Gregory Scruggs June 13, 2024Melting permafrost and a lack of labor add challenges to residential home building. -
Finding Solutions for Older Adults to Age in Grace
By considering the needs of a burgeoning senior population, planners can promote creative and community-focused housing options.by: Patrick Sisson February 29, 2024By considering the needs of a burgeoning senior population, planners can promote creative and community-focused housing options. -
Reclaiming the Missing Middle Ground: How Planners Got NIMBYs to Yes
During a contentious zoning debate, planners in Arlington, Virginia, used data and meaningful engagement to help the community expand housing choices.by: Patrick Sisson December 14, 2023During a contentious zoning debate, planners in Arlington, Virginia, used data and meaningful engagement to help the community expand housing choices. -
Equitable Zoning for Manufactured Housing
Zoning Practice — April 2024by: George Frantz, AICP April 01, 2024This issue of Zoning Practice examines the persistent inequitable treatment of manufactured housing in many local zoning codes and offers considerations for code updates. It begins with brief summaries of the important role manufactured housing plays in supporting housing choice and affordability and includes findings from a five-state analysis of zoning regulations for manufactured housing.List price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
5 Housing Trends Planners Can Influence Now
From commercial-to-residential conversions to the rise of coliving, here’s what you should know today for a more equitable tomorrow.by: Joseph DeAngelis, AICP August 10, 2023From commercial-to-residential conversions to the rise of coliving, here’s what you should know today for a more equitable tomorrow. -
Housing Diversity Encourages Age-Friendly, Accessible Communities
AARP’s Rodney Harrell talks about aging in place, ADUs, and how zoning reform can help planners provide housing that meets community needs.by: Brenna Donegan June 01, 2023AARP’s Rodney Harrell talks about aging in place, ADUs, and how zoning reform can help planners provide housing that meets community needs. -
Pattern Zones and Pre-Reviewed Homes
Zoning Practice — January 2024by: Richard Murphy, AICP, Melissa Milton-Pung January 01, 2024This issue of Zoning Practice explores how a pattern approach to zoning, incorporating pre-reviewed building plans, may help communities expand housing choice and affordability. It begins with a brief examination of historical precedents before outlining the key components of a pattern zoning program and highlighting potentially complementary strategies.List price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Mayor Victoria Woodards Is Making Tacoma a Place to Come Home To
How the local leader uses partnerships, missing middle infill, and the Housing Supply Accelerator to put more roofs over more heads.by: Lindsay Nieman May 02, 2023How the local leader uses partnerships, missing middle infill, and the Housing Supply Accelerator to put more roofs over more heads. -
What Is Zoning Reform and Why Do We Need It?
The case for change, why planners support it, and six zoning reform tactics that could help curb housing costs.by: Patrick Sisson January 18, 2023The case for change, why planners support it, and six zoning reform tactics that could help curb housing costs. -
Zoning Reform Creates New Model for Smart Growth in Walla Walla, Washington
How the rural city eliminated single-family-only zoning, legalized ADUs, and relaxed parking minimums to promote housing diversity.by: Patrick Sisson September 21, 2022The rural city eliminated single-family-only zoning, legalized ADUs, and relaxed parking minimums to promote housing diversity. Here's how planners helped get it done. -
A Business Case for Dropping Parking Minimums
In the smallest of towns and the biggest of cities, these new zoning reform policies help boost small businesses, promote housing development, and put people over parking.by: Jeff Spivak June 01, 2022In the smallest of towns and the biggest of cities, these new zoning reform policies help boost small businesses, promote housing development, and put people over parking. -
Practice Gentle Density
Zoning Practice — February 2023by: Jacqueline Berg, AICP, John Houseal, FAICP February 01, 2023This issue of Zoning Practice explores zoning strategies that balance the concerns of residents and the demands of the housing market by accommodating gentle density increases in a context-sensitive manner. From historic downtown neighborhoods to modern residential subdivisions, the tools presented can be used by planners throughout the country to implement housing policy through regulation.List price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Beyond Use Zoning: The Role of Deregulation in Housing Equity
Zoning Practice — May 2022by: John Zeanah, AICP May 01, 2022This issue of Zoning Practice explores how accessory use standards, dimensional standards, and building codes affect opportunities to build missing middle housing. And it highlights how Memphis and other cities are looking beyond use zoning to advance goals of housing equity in reforming codes and policies.List price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Zoning for Office-to-Housing Conversions
Zoning Practice — February 2022by: Elizabeth Garvin, AICP, Mary Madden, AICP February 01, 2022This issue of Zoning Practice summarizes the benefits of adaptive reuse and widespread barriers to converting offices to residences. Then, it explores how different zoning standards and techniques affect opportunities to adaptively reuse office spaces for residences.List price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
3 Zoning Changes That Make Residential Neighborhoods More Affordable
Zoning reform is one of our greatest weapons against rising housing costs. Here's how we can wield it.by: Robert Liberty February 01, 2021After 100-plus years of prioritizing single-family zoning, cities and states are welcoming diverse housing types back to the neighborhood. -
Partnering with Health Systems on Affordable Housing Investments
PAS Memo — March-April 2021by: Alyia Gaskins March 01, 2021The March/April 2021 edition of PAS Memo explains why and how planners can partner with hospitals and health systems to create more equitable communities through affordable housing development.Nonmember price$0.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
Who’s to Blame for High Housing Costs? It’s More Complicated Than You Think
January 2020This article examines risks and regulations on housing development in the U.S. -
More Flexible Zoning Helps Contain Rising Rents
Housing Policy Initiative, April 2023This article compares four jurisdictions that implemented new zoning rules to allow more housing and increase affordability. -
Capital for Communities: Preserving Affordable Rental Housing Through a Nonprofit Real Estate Investment Trust
2017by: Noelle St.ClairThis article analyzes the Housing Partnership Equity Trust (HPET) to improve affordable rental housing. -
Lot-Size Reform Unlocks Affordable Homeownership in Houston
September 2023This article highlights a policy change in Houston, Texas, to reduce minimum-lot-size requirements, which increased the number of affordable housing units available. -
Inclusionary Zoning and Mixed-Income Communities
Evidence Matters, Spring 2013This article highlights the inclusionary housing policies of two of the largest U.S. cities with high housing costs—New York City and Chicago. -
Missing Middle Housing: Responding to the Demand for Walkable Urban Living
April 2012by: Daniel ParolekThis article focuses on the concept of the “missing middle” in housing, or small-scale multifamily buildings seldom built since World War II. -
Teardowns: Up With the New and Down With the Old?
Planning Commissioners Journal, Summer 2011by: Elizabeth HumstoneThis article documents local concerns surrounding teardowns and explains approaches planners can use to regulate teardowns. -
A Room of One’s Own: Accessory Dwelling Unit Reforms and Local Parochialism
Urban Lawyer, 45(3): 519–569, 2013by: Margaret Brinig, Nicole GarnetThis article discusses the national trend in state and local regulations toward more permissive regulations for accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and presents the findings of a study of local regulations in California. -
Accessory Dwelling Units: A Smart Growth Tool for Providing Affordable Housing
Housing News Network, August 2016by: Jaimie RossThis article provides a general overview of accessory dwelling units (ADUs), discusses potential regulatory barriers to ADUs and state efforts to promote ADUs in Florida, and includes considerations for local zoning ordinances. -
Sustaining Neighborhoods of Choice: From Land Bank(ing) to Land Trust(ing)
Washburn Law Journal, 54: 613-624, 2015by: James KellyThis article explains how land banks and land trusts can lead to socioeconomic integration by encouraging the development and preservation of diverse housing types. -
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. -
Accessory Apartments for Today’s Communities
Planning Commissioners Journal, November/December 1991by: Patrick HareThis short article highlights the potential of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) as an affordable housing strategy and briefly discusses common barriers to developing ADUs. -
Accessory Housing Is Part of the Solution
Breakthroughs, January 2004This short article summarizes a number of common regulatory barriers to affordable housing. These barriers include process requirements, design standards, occupancy standards, and lot size and parking standards. -
Understanding and Appraising Properties with Accessory Dwelling Units
The Appraisal Journal, Spring 2012by: Martin Brown, Taylor WatkinsThis article describes challenges associated with appraising properties with accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and proposes an appraisal method based on income capitalization. -
Accessory Dwelling Units as Low-Income Housing: California’s Faustian Bargain
Urban Science, 2(3): 89, 2018by: Darrel Ramsey-MusolfThis article evaluates the efficacy of a California statute that permits cities and counties to count accessory dwelling units (ADUs) toward affordable housing production goals. -
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. -
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. -
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). -
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. -
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. -
Community Land Trusts Grown from Grassroots
Land Lines, July 2015by: Miriam Axel-Lute, Dana Hawkins-SimonsThis article introduces the community land trust (CLT) model and looks at how neighborhood organizers are using it to promote affordable housing development and preservation. -
Community Land Trusts: An Introduction
Planning Commissioners Journal, 23: 10-12, Summer 1996by: Tom PetersonThis article introduces community land trusts (CLTs) as a tool for promoting affordability and homeownership. -
Community Land Trusts: Why Now Is the Time to Integrate This Housing Activists’ Tool into Local Government Affordable Housing Policies
Journal of Affordable Housing, 23(3 & 4), 349-371, 2015by: Stephen MillerThis article outlines the history of community land trusts (CLTs), the classic structure of a CLT, and the legal and policy challenges. -
Death to Single-Family Zoning…and New Life to the Missing Middle
Journal of the American Planning Association, 86(1): 113-119, 2020by: Jake WegmannThis article advocates for the development of “missing middle” housing in formerly single-family residential zones. -
Do Affordable Housing Projects Harm Suburban Communities? Crime, Property Values, and Taxes in Mount Laurel, NJ
City Community, 12(2): 89-112, June 2013by: Len Albright, Elizabeth Derickson, Douglas MasseyThis article asks whether the development of an affordable housing project in suburban New Jersey negatively impacted crime rates, property values, or property taxes. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Evaluating the Impact of Transit Service on Parking Demand and Requirements
Transportation Research Record, 2245: 56–62, 2011by: Daniel Rowe, Christine Bae, Qing ShenThis article supports the idea that access to transit service decreases the demand for off-street parking. -
New Hampshire Says Yes to ADUs
AARP Livable Communities, May 2018by: Peter MorelliThis article discusses how New Hampshire's zoning enabling law establishes minimum regulatory requirements for accessory dwelling units (ADUs). -
Two Houses in One For a Home Within a Home
AARP Livable Communities, October 2016by: Melissa StantonThis article profiles an award-winning design for a multigenerational home, which includes an integrated accessory dwelling unit with a kitchenette.
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