Overcoming Opposition to Multifamily Rental Housing
March 2007
By: Debra Stein, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Mark Obrinsky
http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/rr07-14_obrinsky_stein.pdf
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This report unpacks the common arguments against multifamily rental housing related to fiscal burden, traffic, property values, and neighborliness and crime. It provides guidance for how to respond to opposition to individual multifamily projects, until public opinion has time to change on a larger scale.