Research Catalog

Title

Growth management and affordable housing : do they conflict? / Anthony Downs, editor.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors

Downs, Anthony

Description

ix, 290 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Advocates of growth management and smart growth often propose policies that raise housing prices, thereby making housing less affordable to many households trying to buy or rent homes. Such policies include urban growth boundaries, zoning restrictions on multifamily housing, utility district lines, building permit caps, and even construction moratoria. Does this mean there is an inherent conflict between growth management and smart growth on the one hand, and creating more affordable housing on the other? Or can growth management and smart growth promote policies that help increase the supply of affordable housing?" "These issues are critical to the future of affordable housing because so many local communities are adopting various forms of growth management or smart growth in response to growth-related problems. Those problems include rising traffic congestion, the absorption of open space by new subdivisions, and higher taxes to pay for new infrastructures." "This book explores in depth the relationship between growth management and smart growth and affordable housing, drawing material from a symposium on these subjects, sponsored by the Brookings Institution, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the National Association of Realtors, and the Fannie Mae Foundation. Contributors seek to inform the debate and provide some useful answers to help the nation accommodate the curtailment of growth in urban and suburban domains while still ensuring a supply of affordable housing."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

James A. Johnson metro series

Uniform Title

Brookings metro series.

Subject

• City planning
• Housing

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Can we tell if growth management aids or thwarts affordable housing? / Daniel Carlson and Shashir Mathur -- Smart growth and affordable housing / Richard P. Voith and David L. Crawford -- The link between growth management and housing affordability : the academic evidence / Arthur C. Nelson ... [et al.] -- The effects of affordable and multifamily housing on market values of nearby homes / George C. Galster -- The promise and practice of inclusionary zoning / Douglas Porter -- Growth management, smart growth, and affordable housing / Anthony Downs.

ISBN

• 0815719329 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0815719337 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004004191

OCLC

54500168

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library