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LEARN
- What is affordable housing and who needs it?
- Why is housing unaffordable?
- How is affordable housing created?
- How do you fill the affordable housing gap?
- Multifamily financing 101
- What can communities do to make housing markets work again?
- Why focus on affordable housing?
- I thought HUD did that!
- The local role
PLAN
- What is a local housing strategy and why is it important?
- Mail elements of a local housing strategy
- Establishing an inclusive and effective process for building a local housing strategy
- This brief is really called: Engaging the community in the development of a local housing strategy
- Establishing numerical goals
- Process for monitoring and evaluation
ANALYZE
- Data Suite
- Using a Pro forma
ACT
- Identifying policy tools to meet local needs
- Policy framework
- Creating and Preserving Dedicated Affordable Housing Units
- Establishing Incentives or Requirements for Affordable Housing
- Generating Revenue for Affordable Housing
- Housing trust funds
- Dedicated revenue sources
- Linkage fees/affordable housing impact fees
- Demolition taxes and condo conversion fees
- General obligation bonds for affordable housing
- Tax increment financing
- Transfers of development rights
- Support for employer-assisted housing programs
- Increased use of MF private activity bonds to draw down 4 percent LIHTCs
- State tax credits for affordable housing
- Activation of housing finance agency reserves
- Supporting Affordable Housing through Subsidies
- Preserving Existing Affordable Housing
- Expanding the Availability of Affordable Housing in Resource-Rich Areas
- Creating Durable Affordable Homeownership Opportunities
- Facilitating the Acquisition or Identification of Land for Affordable Housing
- Use of publicly owned land for affordable housing
- Land banks
- Property acquisition fund
- Joint development with transit agencies and other interagency partnerships
- Promoting Affordability by Increasing the Overall Supply of Housing and Lowering Barriers and Costs
- Reducing Development Costs and Barriers
- Zoning changes to allow for higher residential density
- Reduced parking requirements
- Zoning changes to facilitate the use of lower-cost housing types
- Streamlined permitting processes
- Reforms to construction standards and building codes
- Housing rehabilitation codes
- Streamlined environmental review processes
- Changes to increase the predictability of the regulatory process
- Reductions in impact fees and exactions
- Increases in the supply of buildable land by expanding growth boundaries
- Creating Incentives for New Development
- Tax incentives for new construction and substantial rehabilitation
- Land value taxation
- Incentives to encourage the development of lower-cost housing types
- Reducing Development Costs and Barriers
- Helping Renters and Homebuyers Access and Afford Units They Locate in the Private Market
- Providing Tenant-Based Rental Assistance
- Promoting Mobility for Housing Choice Voucher Holders
- Reducing Barriers to Homeownership
- Reducing Energy Use and Costs
- Combatting Housing Discrimination
- Enhancing Housing Stability and Quality
- Enhancing Renters’ Housing Stability
- Enhancing Homeowners’ Housing Stability
- Improving Quality of Both New and Existing Housing
- Ensuring the Ongoing Viability of Unsubsidized Affordable Rental Properties
- Tax incentives for the maintenance and rehabilitation of unsubsidized affordable rental properties
- Expanded access to capital for owners of unsubsidized affordable rental properties
- Guidance for small property owners and owners of other unsubsidized affordable rental properties
- Increasing the affordability of rental housing
- Preserving the existing stock of dedicated affordable rental housing
- Preserving the existing stock of market affordable rental housing
- Reducing homelessness and meeting the emergency needs of homeless individuals and families
- Meeting the housing and services needs of older adults and persons with disabilities
- Increasing access to sustainable homeownership
- Increasing housing stability for renters and owners
- Improving housing quality and safety
- Enhancing resilience to flooding and other climate-related threats
- Reducing housing discrimination
- Affirmatively furthering fair housing
- Strengthening communities through community development activities
- Decreasing the concentration of poverty
- Encouraging mixed use development
- Reducing energy use and decreasing carbon emissions
- Expanding access to public transit
- Improving health of children and adults
- Improving educational outcomes for children
- Housing Strategy Self-Assessment
- How housing matters
- Improving high-poverty neighborhoods
- Expanding affordable housing in resource-rich areas
FUND
- Overview of funding options
- Federal funding options
- Capital subsidies for building affordable housing developments
- Below-market financing of affordable housing development
- The Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD)
- Property acquisition funds
REFINE
- Target income levels for housing affordability programs
- How can cities develop a balanced community investment strategy that expands the availability of affordable housing in resource-rich and improving neighborhoods, increases the resources available to residents of low-income neighborhoods, and helps residents reach and remain in resource-rich and improving neighborhoods?
- Affordability periods for dedicated affordable housing
- Preserve existing affordable housing and build (a)new
- Tenant-based assistance vs. project-based
- This brief is really called: To what extent should cities focus on tenant-based rental assistance in addition to project-based rental assistance?
- Homeowners vs. renters
- This brief is really called: To what extent should cities focus on helping residents become homeowners in addition to increasing the availability of rental housing?
- How should cities balance trade-offs among the quantity, quality, and location of affordable housing?
- Large-scale or scattered-site
- This brief is really called: The pros and cons of large-scale, small-scale, and scattered-site development
- Older adults vs. families with children
- This brief is really called: Allocating resources to address housing needs among older adults and families with children
- To what extent should cities focus on developing housing with a mix of incomes?
- Addressing neighborhood disparities
BRIDGE
- Why Housing Matters
- Housing and Health
- Housing and Education
- Housing and Public Safety
- Housing and Job/Transit Access
- Housing and Environmental Sustainability
- Importance of a balanced approach
- Importance of inclusive and resource-rich neighborhoods
- Resources available on building public support
