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The Match Game: Affordable Housing and Transit Villages
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Type: Article
Year Published: 2005
Publisher: ULI
Author: Marilee Utter
Abstract: As housing prices continue to increase and transit systems grow, cities are realizing that combining transit-oriented development and affordable housing can make economic sense. The author provides the following suggestions:
Recipe for Success
The most successful transit-oriented development land uses thus far have been the following:
- high-employee-count office space (call centers, government offices, schools);
- multifamily residential units of almost any type (for-sale or rental, affordable, luxury, senior, student);
- recreation/entertainment space (cinemas, theaters, museums, arenas, ballparks, skating rinks);
- civic space (city halls, courthouses, libraries, convention centers, community centers);
- service retail space (food and beverage stores, video rental shops, cleaners, child-care businesses, athletic clubs, liquor stores, other uses that reduce the need for people to drive to do errands on the way home from work).
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