Breakthroughs: Volume 4 Issue 4

HUDUSER Survey

Volume 4, Issue 4

	Architectural Design Strategies Allow for Seamless Integration of Affordable Housing
Four years ago, in August 2001, an article appeared in the Washington Post highlighting a program in which developers and Fairfax County, Virginia officials worked together to create a “Great House” – multifamily housing constructed to be both architecturally harmonious with other homes in the surrounding single-family neighborhood, and to comply with the county’s affordable housing and density bonus program. More...

	Converting Motels into Affordable Housing Through Regulatory Reform
Mary Ann Walsh hates to see a good idea go to waste. When she saw that the owner of a rundown motel on Cape Cod had abandoned plans to convert the property into affordable housing, she decided to do something about it. More...

Regulating Duplexes

Duplex housing has long been a path toward affordable homeownership. Early in the twentieth century, the great cities of the east met affordable housing needs by building hundreds of thousands of two- and even three-family (‘triple decker’) homes that housed a generation of newly arriving immigrants.
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