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Breakthroughs: Successful Local Strategies for Affordable Housing
Volume 3, Issue 2
Administrative Processes & Streamlining
 How different states approach the issue of regulatory reform


State governments authorize local governments to regulate the use of land by delegating the state’s police power to the local government.
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Building & Housing Codes

A description of a Maine legislative committee's effort to tackle regulatory reform


Recognizing a serious need for affordable housing in the state, the Maine Legislature enacted a study order in 2003 that asked the state’s Community Preservation Advisory Committee (CPAC) to identify regulatory and other barriers to the creation of affordable housing, and to make recommendations on how to reduce those barriers.
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Zoning, Land Development, Construction, and Subdivision Regulations

Pennsylvania's Department of Community and Economic Development regulatory reform technical assistance guide

In 2001, the Governor’s Center for Local Government Services, part of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED), issued a publication titled “Reducing Land Use Barriers to Affordable Housing.”
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