Author: Tri-State Regional Planning CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apartments
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Legalizing Single-family Conversions
Author: Tri-State Regional Planning CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apartments
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Accessory Apartments in Single-Family Housing
Author: Martin GellenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351534122
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
As the reproduction cost of housing has increased, consumers have made intensive use of existing dwellings. Conversions of the housing stock have regained prominence as a source of supply. This book introduces the accessory apartment and assesses its potential as an emerging resource for meeting local and national housing needs. Although accessory apartments help meet some of the nation's housing needs, they are not entirely without problems. Some of these are environmental problems, such as physical alterations that are out of character with the design and appearance of surrounding structures, while other problems are cultural and ideological. The accessory apartment in a single-family house deviates from the image of housing, family, and neighborhood that prevails in American culture. It symbolizes a change in the way the single-family house is used and the kinds of people who live in it. These changes clash with the traditional meanings attached to the categories of residential zoning. Martin Gellen evaluates and answers the following questions throughout the text: How do we live with accessory apartments? Control their number? Ensure their soundness?--and maintain neighborhood standards? He focuses on the physical planning problems of conversions and examines the zoning issues they raise. This includes a realistic appraisal of the purposes of density and occupancy controls in exclusive single-family districts. The author provides new methods for regulation of density and occupancy which permit more flexible use of single-family housing to meet the housing needs of a more diverse population. Whether in an aging suburb or new tract, the accessory apartment is a current challenge. This book provides a clear headed approach toward a popular trend in the ever changing housing industry.
Accessory Apartments and Single-family Zoning
Author: Martin GellenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accesory apartments
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Allowing Accessory Apartments
Author: Samuel J. HodgesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apartment houses
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Report
Author: To Investigate the Enforcement and Effectiveness of the Bank Secrecy Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on General Oversight and RenegotiationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
Regulatory Impediments to the Development and Placement of Affordable Housing
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Policy Research and InsurancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing policy
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.
Author: New York (State).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 615
Book Description
Housing Special Populations
Author: Remaking the American Dream
Author: Vinit MukhijaPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262372401
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
The redefinition of the single-family house, the urban landscape, and the American Dream. Sitting squarely at the center of the American Dream, the detached single-family home has long been the basic building block of most US cities. In Remaking the American Dream, Vinit Mukhija considers how this is changing, in both the American psyche and the urban landscape. In defiance of long-held norms and standards, single-family housing is slowly but significantly transforming through incremental additions of second and third units. Drawing on empirical evidence of informal and formal changes, Remaking the American Dream documents homeowners’ quiet unpermitted modifications, conversions, and workarounds, as well as gradual institutional alterations to once-rigid local land-use regulations. Mukhija’s primary case study is Los Angeles and the role played by the State of California—findings he contrasts with the experience of other cities including Santa Cruz, Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, and Vancouver. In each instance, he shows how, and asks why, homeowners are adapting their homes and governments are changing the rules that regulate single-family housing to allow for accessory dwelling units (ADUs) or second units. Key to Mukhija’s research is the question of why the idea of single-family living is changing and what this means for the future of US cities. The answer, this book suggests, heralds nothing less than a redefinition of American urbanism—and the American Dream.