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1. Housing Solutions Workshop

   Cursos
   Octubre 25, 2021

   The Housing Solutions Workshop is designed to help small and midsize localities develop comprehensive and balanced housing strategies to better address affordability and other housing challenges.

2. Gestión del Suelo para la Vivienda Social y Espacialmente Inclusiva

   Educación a distancia
   Marzo 1, 2021
   Profesores: Claudia Acosta, Francisco Sabatini

   El curso aborda la segregación de la vivienda de los más pobres, los factores que la causan, sus efectos nocivos y las oportunidades que ofrecen las políticas de vivienda social integrada.

3. Duty to Serve

   Early Lessons Learned in Underserved Housing Markets
   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Abril 2021
   By Jim Gray and George W. McCarthy

   Enacted in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 and launched in 2017, Duty to Serve (DTS) is a federal regulation that requires Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to provide affordable housing...

4. 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...

5. A Reformer’s Guidebook to Zoning’s Knots

   Approval Processes for Multi-Family Housing in Greater Boston
   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2021
   Amy Dain

   Local permitting of residential construction in Boston’s suburbs has evolved, along a centurylong trend line, to be more flexible, political, complex, unpredictable, and ad hoc. The route to...

6. Mandating Access to Affordable Housing, City by City

   Is France’s Fair-Share SRU Law a Model for U.S. Metropolitan Areas?
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2021
   Yonah Freemark

   In 2000, France’s legislature passed the Loi relative à la Solidarité et au renouvellement urbains (SRU) law, a housing affordability requirement for many municipalities across...

7. New Coalition Presses Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to Better Support Underserved Mortgage Markets

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2021
   By Will Jason, October 21, 2021.

   In the face of a mounting housing affordability crisis, a coalition of housing organizations is pressing the U.S. government to better serve people who cannot access traditional mortgage markets. The Underserved Mortgage Markets Coalition, which includes

8. 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...

9. 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,...

10. 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...