Land Lines January 2018
Features
The Evolution of Manufactured Homes
Today's factory-built abodes are comfortable and attractive, energy-efficient, and less than half the price of site-built houses. They're also permanently affordable when owners form cooperatives to buy the land around them.
Boomtowns Are Making Room for Skinny Homes, Granny Flats, and Other Affordable Housing
As housing costs spike in tech hubs and other thriving U.S. markets, Portland, Boulder, and Cambridge are loosening regulations to allow more low- and moderate-income housing, foster growth, prevent displacement, and preserve the historic fabric of neighborhoods.
Helping Underinvested Communities to Absorb Resources
Denver, San Francisco, and Los Angeles have been conspiring to ease their local affordable housing shortages. By joining forces through "capital absorption workshops" stakeholders from housing, transit, planning, and economic development organizations are forging strategies to attract land, capital...
