Yes in My Backyard
Urban Land Institute,U.S. (Verlag)
978-0-87420-407-0 (ISBN)
Rising housing costs are creating hardships for millions of U.S. households and taking a toll on economic growth—a problem made worse by local zoning and land use regulations and development review processes that impede affordable housing development, the report explains. While municipalities have more autonomy in some states than in others, states do have significant power to affect these regulations. However, the report notes, relatively few states have seized opportunities to deploy their authority and resources to help localities plan for and accommodate housing development through land use and zoning policies. The report suggests five ways that states can help cities and counties promote the development of sufficient housing supply, primarily through their land use powers: Ensure that localities and regions are assessing their housing needs for the future. Because many communities do not analyze their housing needs or assess the importance of housing to economic growth, states should establish and enforce workable standards; Provide incentives to local communities to zone for new housing. Zoning often needs to be modified to allow for and encourage the development of needed new housing. States can support communities’ efforts with financial and technical assistance; Reduce regulatory requirements that increase costs and stifle development. States can use their authority and creativity to cut the regulatory red tape that unnecessarily makes housing more expensive; Authorize cities to invest their own resources linked to pro-housing land use. Even with appropriate zoning, local jurisdictions often need state approval to offer their own incentives for construction of below-market rate housing; Enable local communities to overcome unreasonable neighborhood opposition. Community opposition can drive up the cost of—or completely derail—the construction of new housing. States can provide mechanisms to moderate “not in my backyard” (NIMBY) opposition and make it easier to build housing needed to support local growth. The report examines the role that states can play in helping local communities overcome the NIMBY issue. Dating to 1969, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Permitting and Zoning Appeal Law allows developers to bypass local review processes for projects with specified minimum levels of affordable housing. It is estimated that this state law, known as Chapter 40B, has spurred the development of more than 68,000 housing units statewide, including 35,000 that are affordable to households with incomes below 80 percent of the area median income.
Rosemarie Hepner serves as Director of the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing. Ms. Hepner joins ULI with significant experience in low-income housing research and data analysis. Before joining ULI in 2017, she worked for two international development nonprofits, most recently as the International Capital Markets Specialist at Habitat for Humanity International. In that role, Ms. Hepner supported the operations for the MicroBuild Fund (Habitat’s housing microfinance fund), and managed the State of Housing Microfinance survey reports. Ms. Hepner holds a Master’s in City and Regional Planning from The Catholic University of America’s School of Architecture and Planning, where her research focused on low-income housing practices and design. Her thesis examined housing reconstruction in informal settlements post-disaster. Ms. Hepner also holds a B.A. from The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Lisa Sturtevant, Ph.D is president of Lisa Sturtevant & Associates and former vice president for research at the National Housing Conference. She joined the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing as a senior visiting fellow on July 1, 2016. Stockton Williams is Executive Vice President for Content and Executive Director of the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing. Mr. Williams leads the strategic direction of the Center and the design and implementation of its initiatives, which span a broad range of housing issues, including affordable/workforce, senior, and market-rate housing. He is most recently the author of the ULI publication Preserving Multifamily Workforce and Affordable Housing: New Approaches for Investing in a Vital National Asset and co-author of The Economics of Inclusionary Development. Mr. Williams has more than 20 years' experience in housing and economic policy, research, advocacy, and development and has held senior leadership positions in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Before joining ULI in January 2015, he was Managing Principal of the Washington, D.C., office of HR&A Advisors, which advises cities across the U.S. on complex real estate and economic development projects. Prior to joining HR&A, Mr. Williams served as Senior Advisor in two Federal Cabinet agencies: the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Energy. He has also been Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Enterprise Community Partners; a Senior Advisor at Living Cities; a Senior Legislative and Policy Associate at the National Council of State Housing Agencies; and a developer of affordable housing. He is Chairman of the Board of Groundswell, an innovator in harnessing community economic power for the common good. He holds an M.S. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Princeton University.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.03.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Washington DC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 279 mm |
| Gewicht | 68 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-87420-407-0 / 0874204070 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-87420-407-0 / 9780874204070 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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