Regulatory Barriers Clearinghouse
Strategy of the Month Club
August, 2006
Toolkit Provides Means to Advance Affordable
Housing
What guidance is available to help
local governments
assure an adequate supply of affordable
housing in
their communities? The Washington (DC)
Area Housing
Partnership provides assistance through
its eight-
section Toolkit for Affordable Housing
Development,
which addresses issues from preserving
existing
housing to design and advocacy.
The toolkit explores techniques such
as lot size and
setback modifications, affordable housing
districts,
infill development, expedited permitting,
and developer
incentives to promote the creation
of affordable
housing. Readers will also find information
about
adaptive reuse, green building, financial
tools, and
programs that provide assistance for
homeownership,
rental, and special needs. Examples
of the recommended
tools put into practice are given as
models for
localities that wish to maintain or
increase their
affordable housing stock.
If you would like to know more, a detailed
summary and
a link to the Toolkit itself
can be found
at https://www.huduser.gov/rbc/search/rbcdetails.asp?DocId=1367.
We hope this information proves useful
to you in your
efforts to create affordable housing.
If you have
regulatory reform strategies or resources
that you'd
like to share, send us an email at
rbcsubmit@huduser.gov,
call us at 1-800-245-2691 (option 4),
or visit our
website at http://www.regbarriers.org.
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