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Housing Supply Accelerator Playbook
May 06, 2024The Housing Supply Accelerator Playbook is for local elected officials and community planners working to boost diverse, attainable, and equitable housing supply in communities nationwide. -
Housing Wisconsin: A Guide to Preparing the Housing Element of a Local Comprehensive Plan
June 2003by: Brian Ohm, John Merrill, Joni HerrenThis guide belongs to the Comprehensive Planning and Housing Needs Assessment collections. -
Homeward Bound: The Road to Affordable Housing
July 2019by: James Brooks, AICP, Michael Wallace, Gideon Berger, AICPThis guide provides recommendations for local and federal leaders to aid them in the national housing crisis. -
Norfolk, VA, Missing Middle Pattern Book
Adopted June 2021This guide is designed to help property owners and developers add "missing middle" housing to established low-density neighborhoods in Norfolk, Virginia. -
Austin, TX, Special Use Infill Options and Design Tools Available Through the Neighborhood Plan Combining District (NPCD)
2017This guide for property owners and developers discusses eight infill project options for designated neighborhood planning areas. -
Blacksburg, VA, Residential Infill Design Guidelines
2011This guide for property owners and developers presents illustrated design principles for small, medium, and large-site residential infill development. -
Orange, CA, Infill Residential Design Guidelines
2013This guide for property owners and developers presents illustrated design objectives for context-sensitive residential infill development. -
Enabling Better Places: A Zoning Guide for Vermont Neighborhoods
August 2020This guide hopes to improve the amount of available homes in Vermont by updating local zoning and land use regulations to allow for a larger range of housing types. -
Essential Smart Growth Fixes for Urban and Suburban Zoning Codes
EPA 231-k-09-003, November 2009by: Kevin NelsonThis guide discusses a series of zoning reform opportunities to support smart growth. -
Essential Smart Growth Fixes for Rural Planning, Zoning, and Development Codes
February 2012by: Kevin NelsonThis guide belongs in the Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Housing Supply Planning, and Zoning Reform and Code Writing collections. -
Lean Code Tool
2017by: Susan Henderson, Matthew Lambert, William Spikowski, FAICPThis guide discusses a wide range of incremental zoning reforms to support walkable, urban development. -
Community Goals Scorecard
Coastal Community Planning & Development Training, n.d.This guide presents a series of questionnaires to help coastal cities and counties evaluate the consistency of their plans and land-use and development regulations with smart growth principles. -
Los Angeles, CA, Small Lot Design Guidelines
2014This guide is intended for architects, designers, developers, and residents. It contains recommendations for site planning, building design, landscaping, approaches to sustainability and case studies related to Los Angeles’ small lot ordinance. -
Knoxville, TN, Heart of Knoxville Infill Housing Design Guidelines
2005by: Knoxville Knox County MPC,This guide for property owners and developers presents illustrated design principles for context-sensitive residential infill in established neighborhoods. -
Edmonton, AB, Residential Infill Guidelines: A Manual of Planning and Design Guidelines for Residential Infill in Mature Neighborhoods
September 2009This guide for property owners and developers presents illustrated design principles for small, medium, and large-scale, as well as large-site, residential infill development in established neighborhoods. -
Durango, CO, Design Guidelines for Established Neighborhoods
2006This guide for property owners and developers was developed as a companion piece to the community’s updated development standards. -
Palo Alto, CA, Single-Family Individual Review Guidelines
2005This guide for property owners and developers presents illustrated design principles for new single-family homes and additions in established neighborhoods. -
Plainfield, IL, Residential Infill Design Guidelines
2009This guide for property owners and developers presents illustrated design principles for residential infill development. -
Portland, OR, Infill Design Toolkit: Medium Density Residential Development
2008This guide for property owners and developers illustrates residential infill development prototypes for established neighborhoods. -
Monroe, WA, Infill, Multifamily and Mixed Use Design Standards
2011This guide for property owners and developers presents illustrated design principles for residential infill development. -
Modesto, CA, Neighborhood Compatibility Guidelines
2009This guide for property owners and developers presents illustrated design principles for residential infill development in established neighborhoods. -
Models and Guidelines for Infill Development
2001This guide for cities and counties in Maryland offers detailed direction for planning efforts related to encouraging incremental infill development. -
Equitable Development Toolkit: Infill Incentives
2001by: PolicyLinkThis guide focuses on incentives local government can implement that promote infill on vacant parcels or previously developed land. -
Pattern Book Homes for 21st Century Michigan
September 2022This guide provides construction plans for 2- and 4-unit houses to be used in vacant land as infill housing. -
Sustainable Development Code
2021by: Jonathan RosenbloomThis guide belongs to the Hazard Mitigation, Home Occupations, Housing Supply Planning, Solar Energy, Urban Agriculture, Wildland-Urban Interface, Wind Energy, and Zoning Reform and Code Writing collections. -
Handbook for Improved Neighborhoods
January 2021by: Lynn RichardsThis guide is designed to help communities reform their zoning codes to promote walkability, housing choice, and small business opportunities. -
How to Build Affordable, Thriving Neighborhoods: A State and Local Zoning Reform Toolkit
September 2020by: Greg Brooks, Salim Furth, Emily HamiltonThis guide explains seven local zoning and state enabling law reform strategies that could improve housing choice and affordability. -
Janesville, WI, Development Guide
March 2021The city's development guide offers a listing of various application requirements. -
Raleigh, NC, Development Services Guide
2017This online reference tool provides detailed process descriptions that outline requirements for developing and building within the city. -
Overland Park, KS, Citizen’s Guide to Planning, Land Use and Development
2010This guide provides a general overview of the planning and development process in the city and how residents play a role. -
Jefferson County, CO, Development Processes
2023This county website offers links to detailed guides for 11 different development application processes. -
Streamlining the Municipal Development Review Process
January 2020This guide is designed to help municipalities in Ontario, Canada, design and implement improvements that streamline development review processes. -
Build a Housing Strategy
2024This guide details developing and implementing a local housing strategy. -
Commercial Residential Conversions: A Guidebook to Available Federal Resources
October 2023This guide is designed for users to familiarize themselves with federal programs to support commercial to residential conversion. -
San Diego, CA, Companion Unit Handbook
2019This guide informs homeowners on how to construct a companion unit on their property in San Diego, California. -
Advancing Racial Equity in Inclusionary Housing Programs
February 2021by: Stephanie Reyes, Amy KhareThis guide is designed to help planners and local officials design inclusionary housing programs that support racial equity goals. -
Centre County, PA, Inclusionary Housing: Model Policies for Centre County
June 30, 2010This guidance manual was written in response to an affordable housing needs assessment completed for the county. -
Inclusionary Housing Program Design Worksheet
n.d.This inclusionary housing program design worksheet walks users through five steps to designing an inclusionary housing program. -
Inclusionary Housing Calculator 2.0
February 14, 2018This Inclusionary Housing Calculator is designed to allow communities to explore the relationship between various local incentives and the development of mixed-income housing. -
The City-CLT Partnership: Municipal Support for Community Land Trusts
Policy Focus Report, 2008by: John Emmeus Davis, Rick JacobusThis report points out how community land trusts (CLTs) have increased the stock of permanently affordable housing and considers how local governments can invest in these efforts. -
Advocates' Guide
2024by: Sonya Acosta, Michael Anderson, Andrew AurandThis guide serves as a resource for housing advocates, providing basic descriptions of federal housing laws and programs, discussing special housing issues, identifying housing tools, and making the connection between housing and income programs. -
A Primer on Qualified Allocation Plans: Linking Public Health & Affordable Housing
March 2015by: Raymond LeungThis guide details how to incorporate health considerations into a state’s Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program’s Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP). -
Affordable Housing & Health: City Roles and Strategies for Progress
February 2019by: Katie Horton, Naomi Seiler, Anya VanecekThis guide discusses the relationship between affordable housing and health and identifies strategies for financing healthy housing projects. -
Affordable Housing Resource Guide
May 2017This guide identifies public and private affordable housing funding sources suitable for homeownership, rental rehabilitation or development, and rental assistance and homelessness prevention. -
A Guide to Best Practices in Rural Rental Preservation
August 2008This guide examines federal, state, and local actions to support affordable rental housing preservation in rural communities, financed by the Section 515 Rural Rental Housing program. -
Energy Efficiency in Affordable Housing: A Guide to Developing and Implementing Greenhouse Gas Reduction Programs
2011by: Brian Ng, Mark Simons, Megan SusmanThis guide supports state and local governments in pursuing environmentally sustainable affordable housing programs. -
Financing the Early Costs in Affordable Housing Development
April 2017This guide explains why the early costs in affordable housing development is a barrier for small, nonprofit organizations and identifies strategies to expand access to financing. -
Expedited Permitting and Review: The Basics
December 2017This guide explains why expedited permitting and review processes encourage affordable housing development. -
Employer-Assisted Housing: The Basics
April 2017This guide introduces employer-assisted housing as an affordable housing strategy. -
Land Banks and Land Banking
June 2015by: Frank AlexanderThis guide discusses how to assess whether a land bank is right for your community as well as how to create and operate a land bank.
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