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What's next for affordable housing in 2024?

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What's next for affordable housing in 2024? 0 qpurcell Thu, 12/14/2023 - 15:40 Affordable Housing As 2023 draws to a close, GBBN’s Mary Jo Minerich and Amanda Markovic, AIA sat down to talk about the future. What’s next in terms of trends, technology, and construction of affordable housing? Where is it taking place?

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How One Nonprofit Housing Developer in Roanoke, Va., Is Restoring the Vacant Middle

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How One Nonprofit Housing Developer in Roanoke, Va., All too often, the discussion centers around building ourselves out of the housing crisis through new construction. But there are countless vacant and blighted properties in communities that need reinvestment and affordable housing options. However, Ms.

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Zoning Regulations Pose Challenges for Regional Builders, but Three Female-Led Projects May Help

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Zoning Regulations Pose Challenges for Regional Builders, but Three Female-Led Projects May Help. These trailblazing women are digitizing zoning codes and regulations to help builders create more affordable housing. Mon, 07/11/2022 - 10:22.

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How Many New Homes Will it Take to Fix the Housing Shortage?

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How Many New Homes Will it Take to Fix the Housing Shortage? is facing a housing shortage, so why aren’t more homes being built? These restrictions raise building costs, which in turn raise housing prices, making it harder for young families and other first-time homebuyers to afford a house. Housing Markets.

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Can Single-Family Zoning Be Meaningfully Reversed?

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Can Single-Family Zoning Be Meaningfully Reversed? Although there have been efforts to get rid of single-family districts, they lack the teeth to address the plethora of obstacles to residential development on a scale that would affect housing prices. In Oregon, zoning reform allows municipalities to require large lot sizes.

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Austin creates innovative plan to boost affordable housing

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City leaders in Austin, Texas are backing an innovative policy to increase the amount of affordable housing. The plan relaxes zoning restrictions and provides incentives for higher density construction in affordable and mixed-income developments.

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HUD Announces Plans to Reintroduce Obama-Era Rule to Combat Housing Discrimination

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HUD Announces Plans to Reintroduce Obama-Era Rule to Combat Housing Discrimination ldeakins Fri, 01/20/2023 - 09:52 The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is working to bring back a fair housing rule that will address and rectify discriminatory zoning laws The U.S.