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Affordable Housing and Smart Growth
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Affordable Housing and Smart Growth
Date Published: 2001
Publisher: Smart Growth Network Subgroup on Affordable Housing
Author: Danielle Arigoni
"A range of policies and approaches are discussed here that link smart growth's broad goals with the
more specific goals of affordable housing. These strategies have been used by communities to improve
housing conditions and foster economic development, protect environmental and natural resources, and
enhance community quality of life. Case studies are presented of towns, cities, and states that have benefited
from linking these two goals. Finally, options are presented from which community activists, local
and regional policymakers, advocates for affordable housing, and supporters of smart growth can
choose in charting a course for development in their community.
"This report is not a comprehensive analysis of the policies and effects associated with affordable
housing and smart growth. Rather it serves to identify areas of common interest between advocates for
smart growth and affordable housing, not unlike those areas represented by the diverse membership of
the Smart Growth Network Subgroup on Affordable Housing. While few of the policies and approaches
profiled will independently accomplish smart growth's multiple goals, they all demonstrate the ability
of smart growth to demand better performance from policies by applying them in an inclusive development
strategy. Smart growth spurs innovation, which is precisely what is needed if communities are to
overcome the mounting challenges posed by development pressures and housing needs."
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