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Adaptive Reuse Revives a Casket Factory as Affordable Housing
Planners and developers are using tax credits, toolkits, and zoning reform to breathe new life into vacant commercial buildings.by: Bill JonesPlanners and developers are using tax credits, toolkits, and zoning reform to breathe new life into vacant commercial buildings. -
Rural Communities Embrace ADUs to Boost Housing Supply
How planners, lawmakers, and residents are changing attitudes and zoning rules about accessory dwelling units in small towns.by: Kevin HardyHow planners, lawmakers, and residents are changing attitudes and zoning rules about accessory dwelling units in small towns. -
How Anchorage Effectively Eliminated Single-Family-Only Zoning
Elected officials (including a planner) and a housing advocate share in their own words what it took to adopt zoning reform and turn a “no” vote into “yes.”by: Jon DePaolis October 31, 2024Elected officials (including a planner) and a housing advocate share in their own words what it took to adopt zoning reform and turn a “no” vote into “yes.” -
New ADU Tools May Unlock Affordable Housing in Your Backyard
From California to Arkansas, ready-made design plans can reduce time and costs during the permitting process.by: Jon DePaolis September 26, 2024From California to Arkansas, ready-made design plans can reduce time and costs during the permitting process. -
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 DePaolis July 25, 2024With 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. -
Hiding in Plain Sight: Build-to-Rent and Multigenerational Housing
Zoning Practice — November 2024by: Derrick Rhys Wilson November 01, 2024This issue of Zoning Practice explores how development regulations affect opportunities for build-to-rent and multigenerational housing development. It begins with a summary of suburban housing supply challenges before examining the key features of and potential zoning approaches for two emerging types of subtle mixed-residential development. -
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. -
Doing Public Participation Better
Zoning Practice — September 2024by: Anika Lemar September 01, 2024This issue of Zoning Practice recounts some key flaws of typical public participation processes and, more importantly, proposes some solutions. Some of the proposals described here can be adopted and implemented by city, town, and county staff and commissioners. Others will require changes to state enabling legislation. -
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. -
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 NiemanHow 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. -
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 -
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. -
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 -
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 -
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 LibertyAfter 100-plus years of prioritizing single-family zoning, cities and states are welcoming diverse housing types back to the neighborhood. -
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 -
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 -
Turning Housing into Driving: Parking Requirements and Density in Los Angeles and New York
Housing Policy Debate, 23(2): 350–375, 2013by: Michael Manville, Alex Beata, Donald Shoup, FAICPThis article supports the idea that minimum parking requirements are associated with lower residential densities and higher vehicle densities. -
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. -
Gentle Infill
Land Lines, January 2018by: Kathleen McCormickThis article belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Housing Supply Planning, and Residential Infill Development collections. -
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. -
Little Infill
Urban Land, March 2010by: Samuel NewbergThis article provides insight on the role mixed use development plays in meeting the growing demand for infill housing. -
Teardowns: Costs, Benefits, and Public Policy
Land Lines, July 2006by: Dan McMillenThis article provides a balanced perspective on the pros and cons of teardowns. -
How to Ensure That Missing Middle Housing Is Not Missing From Your City’s Policy, Planning, and Zoning
Western City, June 2020by: Daniel Parolek, Tony PerezThis article explains how local comprehensive plans and zoning codes often create barriers to adding missing middle housing to communities. -
Code Drafting Guidelines
Western Planner, October 30, 2016by: Scot Siegel, FAICPThis short article presents 24 simple guidelines for land-use and development code reform projects. -
Drafting Clear Ordinances: Do’s and Don’ts
Planning Commissioners Journal, Spring 2010by: Carolyn BraunThis short article presents a series of recommendations to guide the process of drafting land-use and development codes. -
Visual Enhancement of Zoning Bylaws
Planning Commissioners Journal, Winter 2003by: Michael Von Hausen, Gloria VenczelThis short article presents a series of recommendations for illustrating development code provisions. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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.
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