Solutions to the Affordable Housing Crisis
The following documents detail solutions and policies that can help address the current affordable housing crisis.
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Addressing Long-Term Homelessness: Permanent Supportive Housing
This report was published by the California Research Bureau in August 2003. It was commissioned by State Senate President Pro Tem John Burton.
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Bipartisan Team Offers National Housing Agenda
Opportunity and Progress: A Bipartisan Platform for National Housing Policy is a new book by former HUD Secretaries Henry Cisneros and Jack Kemp, along with Nicolas Retsinas and Kent Colton. It proposes a set of policies to address the nation's housing problem. Click on the link for more information and an order form; copies are $20 from Harvard University.
Bridging Sectors: Partnerships between Nonprofits and Private Developers
Through a review of current literature and interviews with housing thought leaders, nonprofits, private developers, affordable housing capital sources and others, this paper seeks to explore multifamily rental housing development partnerships.
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Community Transformation Visual Simulations
These interactive, computer-generated simulations demonstrate how communities can prevent sprawl by making better use of urban spaces. Each simulation looks at one city intersection as it exists at present, adding pedestrian-friendly expansions such as vegetation, wider sidewalks, and mixed-use development. Editor's favorite is San Pablo Avenue in El Cerrito. Source: Sierra Club, 7/13/2001. Contributed by Katie Howard, Coordinator, Civic Engagement Initiative, Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center. WIDE LOAD WARNING: These images are large files.
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Estimating the Housing Infill Capacity of the Bay Area
Report estimates Bay Area housing infill capacity using "realisitic range of densities and economic conditions...keeping in mind the economic, physical, governmental, and social structure..." Working Paper 2000-6 of the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD), Juan Onesimo Sandoval and John Landis. Often called "The Sandoval/Landis Study."
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Getting to Smart Growth II
Getting to Smart Growth II: 100 More Policies for Implementation is the newest primer in the ongoing series from the Smart Growth Network and ICMA, and follows on the heels of the extremely popular first volume of Getting to Smart Growth. The publication serves as a road map for states and communities that have recognized the need for smart growth but are unclear on how to achieve it.
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Housing Affordability and Income Mobility for the Poor: A Review of Trends and Strategies
This paper will frame the housing affordability problem broadly, tracing key trends over the last several decades and linking these trends to other critical social policy issues, such as welfare reform, workforce readiness, education, and day care. It will briefly examine the coping strategies poor households have employed to make ends meet in the face of rising housing burdens and income loss. Finally, it will review several innovative approaches responding to the affordability problem.
Housing Shortage/Parking Surplus
Housing Shortage/Parking Surplus examines solutions to Silicon Valley’s housing crisis and transportation problems from a new perspective – parking. The report shows that if we rethink our approach to, and assumptions about, parking, we can free up land to yield more than 15,900 much-needed housing units.
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Inclusionary Housing: Important Community Tool for Solving Housing Crisis
A publication by Housing California on how Inclusionary zoning can be a solution in California.
Inclusionary Housing in California: 30 Years of Innovation
Examines the increasing prevalence and impact of inclusionary housing programs as one of the most promising ways to address the affordable housing crisis in California. The California Coalition for Rural Housing (CCRH) and the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH) summarize their survey findings and highlight key program features that are successfully creating affordable housing in 20 percent of the localities in California (107 cities and counties).
Indicators for a Sustainable San Mateo County
The report, Sustainable San Mateo County's 9th annual, highlights the sustainability challenges facing San Mateo County.
Integrating Social Equity and Growth Management: Linking Community Land Trusts and Smart Growth
The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for understanding the ways in which proponents of community land trusts and proponents of smart growth can work together to the achieve goals they hold in common.
It Takes a Transit Village
It Takes a Transit Village, published by the Transportation and Land Use Coalition, recently launched a new effort to condition over $12 billion of new transit investments on cities approving significant housing and designing walkable communities around existing and future transit stations. According to the report taxpayers stand to save $1.8 billion per year with this form of smarter planning.
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Making Housing Affordable: San Francisco
The Council of Community Housing Organizations in San Francisco has developed a new brochure on affordable housing in SF that is very impressive. It provides a great tool for educating neighbors about what affordable housing is and who can qualify. It also provides an excellent model for an organizing tool for other communities.
Making the Bay Area a More Affordable Place to Live
Progress report on the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2002 (prop 46). Produced by the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California.
Mixed-Income Housing Developments: Promise and Reality
This paper examines the rationale for mixed-income approaches to affordable housing development, as well as the record of such developments in meeting their objectives, from the perspective of housing developers and those responsible for designing housing programs and policies.
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A href="http://www.nonprofithousing.org/attachments/Inclusionary_Principles.pdf">On Common Ground: Joint Principles on Inclusionary Housing Policies
A publication by the Nonprofit Housing Organization and the Home Builders Assocation of Northern CaliforniaThe bottom line in these principles is that policies should focus on producing the most units at the deepest levels of affordability.
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A Primer on California's Housing
CALIFORNIA BUDGET PROJECT REPORT RELEASED California offers more than three dozen programs designed to help families achieve homeownership, increase the states housing supply, and ensure that individuals with special needs have a roof over their heads. *A Primer on Californias Housing Programs* provides an overview of Californias housing programs, examines state spending on housing over time, and takes a brief look at major local and federal housing programs. This Budget Backgrounder also includes a detailed list of all housing programs administered by the state, including 2004-05 estimated funding and the funding sources for each program.
Prop 46 Funding Guide
Housing California has issued a quick reference document on what Proposition 46 will fund, when it will fund it, how to apply for its funds, who administers each program, and whether eligibility is tied to having an HCD-approved housing element. Thanks to the Nonprofit Housing Association for making this available.
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Expanding the Ability of Rental Housing to Serve as a Pathway to Economic and Social Opportunity
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Smart Growth in the San Francisco Bay Area: Effective Local Approaches
The San Francisco District Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) recently prepared this guidebook designed to help Bay Area city and county policymakers implement effective local conservation and development practices. The guidebook focuses on a variety of smart growth techniques, cites 25 specific local case studies, and provides model procedures and ordinances. The guidebook addresses: * techniques for implementing compact, infill, mixed-use, transit-oriented and adaptive reuse development; * strategies for addressing jobs-housing balance and inclusionary housing, and; * ways of gaining community support and infrastructure financing to support the implementation of these smart growth approaches.
Stemming the Tide: A Handbook on Preserving Subsidized Multifamily Housing
This handbook is intended as a guide to help community-based and other nonprofit development corporations create preservation strategies for federally subsidized housing projects in their communities.
Strengthening Our Workforce and Our Communities
In the Fall of 2004 the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University and the Center for Workforce Preparation of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce partnered with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation to convene business, chamber and housing leaders at Making the Connection… Housing and Workforce Development: A National Leadership Forum. This report summarizes the Forum and includes the proposed action agenda.
Supply & Distribution of Non-Market Housing in San Mateo County
Chart ranks cities by the fraction of housing supply that is "permanently" affordabe; lists supply of both rental and ownership. Chart summarizes data on San Mateo County Office of Housing inventory, and estimates data not included in inventory.
Supportive Living Environments for the Developmentally Disabled
Hundreds of thousands of adult Americans are able to work or attend education/ training programs despite their physical or mental disabilities. For these people, a supportive living environment can provide the opportunity to live independently but with the structure and support they need to make the most of their lives and to participate in the community. This paper outlines a proven approach to meeting their needs for housing which provides a supportive living environment.
Sustaining Our Work: Bay Area LISC Issues 2003 Durable CDCs Conference Paper
The Bay Area boasts one of the most vibrant and successful community of nonprofit community development organizations in the country. Several decades after many of these organizations began, they face new challenges and a very different environment for their work. In April 2003, Bay Area LISC, with the generous support of Wells Fargo Bank Foundation, hosted a conference on organizational sustainability for executive directors and deputy directors of community development corporations around the region.
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Inclusionary Housing in California: 30 Years of Innovation
Examines the increasing prevalence and impact of inclusionary housing programs as one of the most promising ways to address the affordable housing crisis in California. The California Coalition for Rural Housing (CCRH) and the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH) summarize their survey findings and highlight key program features that are successfully creating affordable housing in 20 percent of the localities in California (107 cities and counties).
Indicators for a Sustainable San Mateo County
The report, Sustainable San Mateo County's 9th annual, highlights the sustainability challenges facing San Mateo County.
It Takes a Transit Village
It Takes a Transit Village, published by the Transportation and Land Use Coalition, recently launched a new effort to condition over $12 billion of new transit investments on cities approving significant housing and designing walkable communities around existing and future transit stations. According to the report taxpayers stand to save $1.8 billion per year with this form of smarter planning.
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