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1. Confronting the Real Barriers to Housing Affordability

   Using Research to Assemble Durable Coalitions and Expand Political Capacity
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Dezembro 2021
   Benjamin Teresa, Kathryn Howell, and Leah Demarest

   The paper begins from the perspective that barriers to affordable housing are less about having good ideas but rather about how to enact policy changes. It focuses on the relationship between housing...

2. Scenario Planning in Small and Mid-Size Legacy Cities

   Framework and Tool Adaptations in Youngstown, Ohio
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Agosto 2021
   Thomas Hilde and Hunter Morrison

   This paper examines how scenario planning frameworks and tools—largely designed for contexts of regional growth—can be adapted for land use and development planning in small and mid-size...

3. The Eight Deaths of Portland’s Residential Infill Project

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Julho 2021
   Michael Andersen

   In 2020, Portland became the largest modern U.S. city to end so-called “single-family zoning,” legalizing up to four market-rate homes on almost any residential lot, or up to six homes on...

4. Eight Ingredients for a State-Level Zoning Reform

   Lessons from Oregon’s House Bill 2001
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Julho 2021
   Michael Andersen

   In 2019, Oregon passed a first-of-its-kind state law that ordered larger cities and the Portland metro area to rapidly legalize duplexes on all residential lots and fourplexes, triplexes, townhomes,...

5. Research, Public Sector Policy Change, Advocacy, Philanthropy and the Private Sector Collide to Create an Affordable Housing and Economic Development Opportunity in Colorado

   The Case of indieDwell
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2021
   Phyllis Resnick and Jennifer Newcomer

   On July 6, 2020, modular builder indieDwell opened a factory in Pueblo, Colorado with a capacity of 160,000 square feet of housing and plans for expansion. indieDwell’s journey to Colorado was...

6. How Scenario Planning Affects Regional and Local Plans and Planning Practices

   An Empirical Analysis
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2020
   Arnab Chakraborty and Stephen Averill Sherman

   This project investigated how regional scenario efforts can shape regional and local plans. Through document analysis of scenario efforts and selected plans in six regions, plus key informant...

7. State Government and Urban Revitalization

   How States Can Foster Stronger, More Inclusive Cities
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Abril 2017
   Alan Mallach

   There are few actions that an urban municipality can take to further revitalization which are not directly or potentially subject to state laws, policies, and practices; while this is widely known,...

8. Do Inclusionary Housing Policies Promote Housing Affordability?

   Evidence from the Palmer Decision in California
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Dezembro 2015
   Ann Hollingshead

   Many cities have responded to rising affordability challenges with inclusionary housing policies, where a municipality requires or incentivizes a developer building a new development to contribute...