NHC: Upzoning can create opportunities for affordable housing - July 29, 2014

Surging demand for urban living is providing cities and older suburbs with a new way to engage private developers in creating mixed-income communities. My new report, Inclusionary Upzoning,  explains how. 

 

As jurisdictions raise height limits, allow greater development intensity and permit housing in new areas of town, a growing number of places both big and small are asking developers that benefit from this new development potential to make a share of new housing affordable for low- and moderate-income households.  These policies are getting results. Inclusionary Upzoning profiles six places that are linking affordability to the rezoning process. Collectively, these policies have generated over 4,000 affordable homes since the early 2000s, with hundreds more on the way.

 

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