Programs & Events

Thinking Outside the Block and Lot, Part 2

Date: Wednesday, May 2nd 2007

Our Spring 2007 Breakfast Series explored strategies for creating affordable housing on underutilized land. The fact that the City is running out of buildable land has been widely discussed, and the conversation has sparked some creative ideas about how to address the problem.  But if the City is going to build enough units of affordable housing to meet the production goals set out in the Mayor’s ambitious 10-year housing plan, make up for the loss of affordable units we’ve seen in recent years and accommodate new population growth, even more innovative strategies will be required. The City, real estate industry and affordable housing community will have to move beyond looking at brownfields or empty railyards, and develop new ways to “create” land.

In May, we examined how non-profits are partnering with affordable housing providers to develop un-used FAR on property they own.

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