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1. Confronting the Real Barriers to Housing Affordability

   Using Research to Assemble Durable Coalitions and Expand Political Capacity
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 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. Climate and Housing Crisis

   A Research Agenda for Urban Communities
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2021
   Michael P. Johnson, Patricio Belloy, Heather MacLean, and Sajani Kandel

   Housing unaffordability and climate change adversely affect the lives of Boston area residents. These crises are amplified by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and are especially salient for low- and...

3. Eight Ingredients for a State-Level Zoning Reform

   Lessons from Oregon’s House Bill 2001
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 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,...

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

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 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...

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 trabajo
   Junio 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. Making the Comeback

   Reversing the Downward Trajectory of African American Middle Neighborhoods in Legacy Cities
   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2021
   Alan Mallach

   This working paper was developed jointly by Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Center for Community Progress. In this paper I examine trends in Black middle neighborhoods in six legacy cities...

7. Scenario Planning for Smaller Places

   Aligning Methods and Context
   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2020
   Robert Goodspeed and David DeBoskey

   Empirical studies of the use of scenarios in planning processes have often focused on projects that are relatively atypical of broader professional planning practice, such as large, novel, complex...

8. Residential Property Taxation in New York City

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2019
   Moses Gates

   This working paper sets forth the recent history and current structure of New York City’s residential property tax system, as well as large-scale inequities, possible points of needed reform,...

9. Tracking Growth and Evaluating Performance of Shared Equity Homeownership Programs During Housing Market Fluctuations

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2019
   Ruoniu Wang, Claire Cahen, Arthur Acolin, and Rebecca J. Walter

   Editor’s Note: This Working Paper was revised on May 6, 2019, to correct an error on page 12. School proficiency scores for census blocks with shared equity homes were compared to scores for...

10. The Preservation of Subsidized Housing

    What We Know and Need to Know
    Documentos de trabajo
    Noviembre 2018
    Vincent Reina

    There is an abundance of research highlighting the lack of affordable rental housing in the U.S. Given this scarcity, it is all the more important to understand the future of the existing subsidized...