Subject: Affordable Housing

  • The High Point Hope VI project in Seattle incorporates smart growth design to connect the development to its surrounding community.

    Smart Can Be Affordable

    Despite fears that rising prices follow smart growth projects, smart growth and affordable housing advocates need each other to realize the promise of each. 

  • A rendering of the BeltLine’s proposed light rail system near Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta.

    An Affordable BeltLine?

    The Atlanta BeltLine brings much promise to the city of Atlanta, but will elevated housing costs be an unwelcome addition? Atlanta is looking to a community land trust to preserve affordability for the long-term near this new asset.

  • Three historic row houses rehabbed by the Albany Community Land Trust. The middle one is a lease-purchase property.

    Can Lease-Purchase Save Us?

    As developers struggle to find buyers for rehabbed affordable homes, many are looking to a lease-purchase model to expand the pool of potential owners. But lease-purchase is far more complicated than just an end-run around the credit crunch.

  • Atlanta’s Pittsburgh Neighborhood: Building the Sustainable Urban Community

    One Atlanta neighborhood's experience of the housing bubble and expected transit investment leads it to invest in a land trust and a vision based in sustainability.

  • Best of Both Worlds

    Permanent affordability and asset building might seem at first blush to be contradictory goals for a low-income homeownership program, but new research says in fact they can be achieved together.

  • Building in Affordability

    A range of existing policy tools can help preserve and expand affordable housing near planned transit stations -- but to have the most effect, they need to be put in place up front.

  • The (Not So) Sudden Push Against New Jersey’s Fair Share Affordable Housing Policy

    Pressure has been building for a long time against the red tape and inflexibility of the agency that implements New Jersey’s landmark fair share housing policy. Can the spirit of Mount Laurel survive the backlash against the details?

  • Homeownership Done Right

    While the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance is helping people buy homes, their aim is to build an army of trained homeowners to engage their own neighbors in organizing and advocacy.

  • New Ideas For Strengthening Federal Rental Assistance

    With housing stability increasingly important for families under economic duress, additional rental funds could help to fund local housing authorities in order to assist families in need. New thinking could result in a plan aimed to help families get back into the mainstream, as well place them on a on a path toward increased personal wealth.

  • For Brooklyn’s Starrett City, Affordability is Binding

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