Other Resources

Woodson Award
The Robert L. Woodson, Jr. Award is a program that recognizes local communities for their outstanding leadership in reducing excessive or unnecessary regulations that effectively discourage the production of housing that is affordable to working families. Over two years, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson honored 18 communities with the "Woodson Award" and acknowledged their efforts in the reduction of regulatory barriers. https://www.huduser.gov/rbc/rbcNews/woodsonawardwinners0506.html

The Affordable Housing Design Advisor
The Affordable Housing Design Advisor provides a wealth of knowledge and experience from the people who successfully developed, designed, and constructed affordable housing projects.
http://www.designadvisor.org/

NIMBY
Prepared by California's Housing & Community Development Department, this site provides resources and tools to help address “Not in My Back Yard” (NIMBY) concerns to affordable housing.
http://www.hcd.ca.gov/hpd/nimby.htm

Creating a Task Force on Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing
This report by HUD, Creating a Task Force on Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing, is designed to assist local officials increase public awareness of regulatory barriers and improve housing affordability in their community.
https://www.huduser.gov/rbc/nca/doc/HUDsGuideToCreatingTaskForce.pdf

Strategies for Producing Affordable Housing
This report, Strategies for Producing Affordable Housing, provides examples of strategies and solutions that are used to produce affordable housing.
http://www.auditor.leg.state.mn.us/ped/pedrep/0103ch3.pdf

Knocking Down Barriers to Affordable Housing
This report, Knocking Down Barriers to Affordable Housing, outlines HUD’s campaign to reduce regulatory barriers that prevent the development of affordable housing.
http://www.hud.gov/initiatives/jones.pdf

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