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Housing
Policies for Stable Neighborhoods
Achieving
Housing Affordability
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Neighborhood
character is affected in large measure by its housing. While housing
affordability is a sought-after goal, neighborhood housing policy
must be consistent with neighborhood characteristics. The ideal
is a "stable" neighborhood which is neither declining
nor gentrifying. Housing programs should be tailored to neighborhood
conditions. There are many programs and approaches to creating housing
affordability. The goal is to foster a diverse community based on
a mix of housing.
Readings:
Peter Medoff and Holly Sklar, Streets
of Hope, The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood (Boston:
South End Press, 1994), Chapter 5, "Controlling the Land Through
Eminent Domain" and Chapter 6, “Land and Housing Development:
The Triangle and Beyond”, pp. 115-167.
Reading
#1
Patricia
Ewalt, Edith Freeman, and Dennis Poole, eds. Community Building:
Renewal, Well-Being, and Shared Responsibility (Washington,
D.C.: National Association of Social Works Press, 1998) Ch. 21,
Carol S. Cohen and Michael H. Phillips, “Building Community:
Principles for Social Work Practice in Housing Settings”,
in, pp. 239-251.
Reading
#5 (pdf)
Ch.
13, "Neighborhood Preservation Through Affordable Housing",
in Murphy and Cunningham, Organizing for Community Controlled
Development, pp. 257-276.
Reading
#7
Adrienne
Schmitz, et. al., Multifamily Housing Development Handbook
(Washington, D.C. : ULI – the Urban Land Institute, 2000),
Chapter 5, “Financial Feasibility Analysis”, pp. 83-93.
Reading
#11 (pdf)
S.
Mark White, Affordable Housing: Proactive & Reactive Planning
Strategies, American Planning Association, Planning Advisory
Service Report #441, December, 1992.
Reading
#15 (pdf)
Ch.
3, "Community Development Corporations and the Resurgence of
Organizing", in Murphy and Cunningham, Organizing for Community
Controlled Development, pp. 38-52.
Reading
#19
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Housing Policies / Affordable Housing
Subtopics inside:
Dudley Street and the South Bronx
Housing and neighborhood types
Social conditions and housing
Overview of housing programs
Housing market research and financing
Making housing affordable
Local sources of funds for affordable housing
Community Development Corporations
Community Reinvestment Act and housing
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