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Affordable Housing and Smart Growth: Making the Connection

A 2001 report prepared by the Smart Growth Network and the National Neighborhood Coalition looks at a variety of land use policies and strategies (through a series of case studies), and examines them in terms of both their "smart growth" and affordable housing impacts. Among the topics considered in this way:

  • reuse of vacant land in Richmond, Virginia
  • New Jersey's fair-share housing allocation strategy
  • Massachusetts' Community Reinvestment Act
  • the CDBG program as used in Denver
  • SMART housing in Austin
  • location efficient mortgages in Chicago
  • accessory dwelling units in Cary, North Carolina

    The report shows that affordable housing and smart growth can work together to create stronger communities.

    • copies of the report can be ordered by calling the U.S. EPA

    Tel: 202-260-2750
  • 56 pages
  • 2001
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