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Decoding Zoning: How Machine-Readable Zoning Data Bridges Housing Gap
Open Zoning is democratizing zoning codes, allowing anyone to access them as simple visuals for any property or city in seconds, crowdsourcing new ways forward for the bottom-up response to the housing crisis.- Nneka Sobers
- Elizabeth Christoforetti
- Alyssa Brandt, AICP
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Revitalizing Communities: Housing as a Powerful New Tool
Case studies drawn from “struggling” communities—from a Florida suburb to rustbelt and gateway cities—demonstrate how proactive policies to expand mixed-income housing can serve as a powerful tool to achieve challenging equity, economic development, environmental, and placemaking community-wide goals.- Alison LeFlore, AICP
- David Dixon
- Eric Johnson
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The OTHER MN Code Everyone Is Talking About
This session will feature Rochester’s Unified Development Code and will provide strategies around how to reform local zoning to successfully encourage housing affordability/availability along with a real example of how to gain public support to advance planning best practices.- Ryan Yetzer
- Jenny Baker
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Accelerating Zoning Reform: A Conversation
Boosting the supply, availability, and diversity of housing options is essential to expanding opportunity and affordability for all. Creating livable and age-friendly communities requires reforms that allow for new housing options. APA, AARP, and the National League of Cities have made housing opportunity and zoning reform a key priority.- Victoria Woodards
- Angela Brooks, FAICP
- Rodney Harrell
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Building Sustainable Affordable Housing At All Income Levels
Learn why our cities and regions must build eco-socially sustainable, “green” housing that is affordable at all income levels, what this looks like, and how to get it built through community-based strategies for designing, approving, and funding in diverse localities- Phillip Kash
- David Woods, FAICP
- Dana Bourland, AICP
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Making Way for Missing Middle: Tulsa's Neighborhood Overlay
Tulsa adopted its Neighborhood Infill Overlay in December 2021, after years of planning and community engagement in downtown-adjacent neighborhoods. The overlay removes barriers for new missing middle housing and brings historic missing middle building types into compliance with zoning.- Nathan Foster
- Travis Hulse, AICP
- Beatriz Baeza-Denis
- Daniel Jeffries, AICP
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Yes, Transit Can Support Affordable Housing
Affordable housing is a challenge facing many cities across the country with solutions focusing on increasing supply. The Oregon Department of Transportation took a different approach and wanted to see how transit could increase overall affordability across the state.- Brian Waterman, AICP
- Sumi Malik
- Rebecca Dann Hewitt, AICP
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Engaging Faith-Based Organizations to Secure Affordable Housing
Georgia Tech's urban design studio partners with 2 Presbyterian churches, a Baptist Church, and a Synagogue to conduct deep-dive explorations into opportunities, challenges, and realities that communities of faith face when they get involved in the City’s affordable housing scene.- Kortney Cena
- Miriam Dominguez
- Colin Delargy
- Clifton McFarlane
- Jullanar Waheed
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The Global Challenge of Planning for Housing
The housing supply crisis is an international challenge. Planners and policymakers in countries around the globe are grabbling with how to increase housing diversity, attainability, and equity. The Presidents of APA, the Royal Town Planning Institute, and the Canadian Institute of Planners will talk about what’s happening in their respective countries and how planners are rising to the challenge.- Jason Jordan
- Angela Brooks, FAICP
- Lindsey Richards
- Dan Huang
- Andrea Harris
- Darren Crombie
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New Challenges for Old Problems: Housing Affordability in a Comparative Perspective
The course will explore new ways to address old problems regarding lack of housing.- Bishwapriya Sanyal
- Salvador Herrera
- NICOLAS MAGGIO
- Agustina Biasone
- Carina Arvizu Machado
- Tenzin Jamtsho
- Jing Zhang, AICP
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Planning Webcast Series, April 2016by: Jennifer Easton, AICP, Nick FedorekThis recorded webinar shares strategies for measuring housing needs and translating them into community goals.Webinar: Introducing the American Housing Survey
April 2017by: Mary MalyszkaThis recorded webinar provides an overview of the American Housing Survey.Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) 101 Webinar
July 2019This recorded webinar introduces the Regional Housing Needs Assessment process, part of California’s state housing law.Webinar: Understanding Housing Needs in Your Community Using Data from the American Community Survey
February 2015by: Lisa SturtevantThis recorded webinar explains how to use data from the American Community Survey to assess local housing needs.Identifying Expiring Affordable Homes with the National Housing Preservation Database
2017by: Keely Stater, Kelly McElwain, Dan EmmanuelThis recorded webinar introduces a tool that reveals which publicly assisted properties are at greatest risk of losing their subsidy contracts and affordability restrictions.Preserving Naturally-Occurring Housing Affordability in Metro Atlanta
June 2018by: Aliya Bhatia, Miriam Keller, Rachel RobinsonThis recorded webinar shares the results of a study that identified strategies used to preserve naturally-occurring affordable housing (NOAH) in Atlanta.Piecing It Together: A Framing Playbook for Affordable Housing Advocates
November 2018by: Tiffany Manuel, Drew VolmertThis recorded webinar discusses the importance of properly framing affordable housing discussions to build public support.Year 15: Transition Strategies for Expiring LIHTC Properties
May 2018by: Laura Turner, AICP, Sean Barnres, Candida FelixThis recorded webinar describes the options that communities have as Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) properties reach the end of their 15-year compliance period.Webinar: Accessory Dwelling Units
June 2018This online training presents an overview of accessory dwelling unit (ADU) policies and practices across the U.S.Big House, Little House, Back House...ADU?
PlanningWebcast, March 2018This online training provides a primer on zoning issues related to accessory dwelling units (ADUs).Connecting Housing and Education: How a Data-Sharing Partnership Can Improve Outcomes
March 2018by: Calvin Johnson, Ross Santy, Maria-Lana QueenThis recorded webinar explains how a data-sharing partnership between public housing agencies and school districts can improve outcomes for residents and students.Home & Hope: Pairing Housing & Early Childhood Education Facilities - Case Studies from Boston and Seattle
August 2019by: Miguel Maestas, Sally Knodell, Theresa JordanThis recorded webinar explores the opportunities and challenges of co-developing early learning centers and affordable housing.Advancing Opportunity Through Affordable Housing
November 2019by: Andrew Jakabovics, Kristin Siglin, Elizabeth KneeboneThis recorded webinar discusses the Advancing Opportunity Through Affordable Housing white paper series, highlighting strategies to support projects addressing long-standing community development challenges.Anti Displacement Strategies Environmental Restoration Meet Affordable Housing
September 2019by: Matthew Weber, Heather BenhamThis recorded webinar examines the relationship between environmental restoration and gentrification and displacement.How Value Capture Can Create Affordable Housing
February 2017by: David Rosen, Nora Lake-Brown, Bryan GlascockThis recorded lecture explains how cities can use value capture to incentivize the development of affordable housing.Gaining Community Acceptance for Affordable Housing
April 2014by: Nevada Merriman, Nicole MacriThis recorded webinar shares strategies for securing public support for affordable housing.Unique Housing Needs of Individuals with Criminal Justice Histories Webinar
July 2018by: Joe ManneyThis recorded webinar explains how housing officials can better serve residents who are returning to the community from jail or prison.What are Benefits of Community Ownership of Affordable Housing in eTOD?
February 2019by: Peter Haas, Juan Carlos LinaresThis webinar explains how community ownership supports the affordability, sustainability, and identity goals of equitable transit-oriented development (eTOD) projects.Why Consider Both Affordable Housing and Social Service Delivery in eTOD Planning?
March 2019by: Rob BreymaierThis recorded webinar emphasizes the importance of planning for social service delivery alongside affordable housing and the benefits of locating near transit.Tax Credits 101, Part 1: LIHTC and Renewable Energy
March 2017This recorded webinar introduces how the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) works through a detailed case study.Public Land and Affordable Housing Webinar
March 2015This recorded webinar outlines the benefits of using public land for affordable housing and looks at an example from Arlington, Virginia.Supporting Rural & Native Affordable Housing With the Low Income Housing Tax Credit
November 2019by: Sarah BrundageThis recorded webinar introduces the Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act and highlights the ways it serves rural and Tribal communities.
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