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The Impact of Urban Development on Housing Affordability
How new development can raise or lower housing costs through supply, location and price tiers, and why the same project can look different at each scale.
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Housing and Equity
Housing costs, markets and fairness in renewal and development.
Housing Cooperatives and Shared Ownership
How resident-owned housing cooperatives work, how shared equity differs from renting or buying, and the limits and governance demands that come with it.
The Impact of Urban Development on Housing Affordability: A Case Study
A labeled hypothetical district shows how affordability can shift when market-rate and subsidized units are added, with the arithmetic checked step by step.
The Impact of Urban Development on Social Equity
Who gains and who pays when cities build and rebuild, and practical ways to judge whether a development's benefits and burdens are shared fairly.
The Impact of Urban Renewal on Housing Affordability
How renewal can raise rents and prices in a neighborhood, why displacement is a risk, and the tools cities use to limit it, with their trade-offs.
The Impact of Urban Renewal on Housing Markets: A Case Study
A labeled composite traces how sale prices, turnover and investor activity can change across phases of a renewal effort, and what it does and does not prove.
The Impact of Urban Renewal on Local Housing Markets
The mechanics behind a renewing housing market: supply, demand, speculation and neighborhood perception, and how they interact to move prices.
The Impact of Urban Renewal on Local Housing Markets: A Case Study
A labeled hypothetical compares how an owner, a renter and a landlord experience the same 30 percent price trend, with each calculation shown.
Urban Development and Housing Affordability: A Guide to Inclusive Cities
A survey of policy tools for keeping cities affordable, including inclusionary requirements, supply measures and tenant protection, with trade-offs for each.
Urban Development and Housing First: A Guide to Inclusive Cities
How the Housing First approach works as a city strategy: stable housing before other services, the reasoning behind it, its limits and what it asks of planners.
Urban Development for All: Strategies for Increasing Affordable Housing
A toolbox of ways to expand affordable housing, including subsidy, zoning, public land and nonprofit ownership, with the trade-offs of each option.
Urban Renewal and the Role of Community Land Trusts
How a community land trust separates land from buildings to keep housing affordable in renewing neighborhoods, plus its limits and governance questions.
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