Housing and Transportation Choice
Sustainable communities are places that have a variety of housing and transportation choices, with destinations close to home. As a result, they tend to have lower transportation costs, reduce air pollution and stormwater runoff, decrease infrastructure costs, preserve historic properties and sensitive lands, save people time in traffic, be more economically resilient and meet market demand for different types of housing at different prices points.
- Mixed-Income Housing Myth and Fact
- Smart Growth Myth and Fact
- Housing and Transportation Affordability in Washington, DC
- A Heavy Load: The Combined Housing and Transportation Burdens of Working Families
- Preserving Affordable Housing Near Transit: Case Studies from Atlanta, Denver, Seattle, and Washington DC
- Arizona DOT Study: Compact, Mixed-Use Development Leads to Less Traffic
- Preservation in Transit-Oriented Districts: A Study on the Need, Priorities, and Tools in Protecting Assisted and Unassisted Housing in the City of Los Angeles
- The Road to Livability: How State Departments of Transportation Are Using Road investments to Improve Community Livability
- Transit Oriented Development that's Healthy, Green & Just: Ensuring Transit Investment in Seattle's Rainier Valley Builds Communities Where All Families Thrive
- Bus Rapid Transit and Development: Policies and Practices that Affect Development Around Transit
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- Ten Principles of Sucessful Development Around Transit
- Families and Transit-Oriented Development
- Guide to Sustainable Transportation Performance Measures
- Walk Score's Public Transit System Rankings
- Mixed-Income Transit-Oriented Development Action Guide
- Build a Better Burb
- Central Corridors Funders Collaborative: Investing Beyond the Rail
- Housing + Transportation Affordability Index
- Inventory of TOD Funding Programs Interactive Map
- Jumpstarting the Transit Space Race 2011 Interactive Map
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Programs, Initiatives
and Additional Resources
- Active Living for All Ages: Creating Neighborhoods Around Transit
- Three Ways to Put Equity into TOD
- Housing and Transportation Affordability Initiative
- MBTA Budget Calculator
- Smart Mobility EnterPrize
- "Location efficiency lowers mortgage defaults, researchers find"
- 2011 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement
- City to finance affordable housing projects through tax credits
- Geography of housing recovery favors cities and walkable neighborhoods
- Livability Initiative Fact Sheet: Benefits of Livability
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