Author: Alison Lintal Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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There is mounting pressure on municipalities to reform their zoning ordinances to eliminate “exclusive” single-family zoning. Advocates call for the inclusion of more multi-family housing within what have been exclusively single (white nuclear) family spaces. In particular, there is a need for “missing middle housing” which is a range of smaller multi-unit or duplex housing that is similar in scale to single-family homes.2 28% of single-family homes are occupied by one person3. Recent census data shows migration trends away from urban areas and towards rural communities with growth in rural racial diversity. Deteriorating housing stock, high development costs, and lack of affordable options continues to hamper affordable housing access in rural communities.What should affordable “multi-household” housing look like in rural communities? This article proposes that government can infill rural single-family housing stock through local regulation modernization, government sponsored and private-sector programs, and policy incentives to promote shared housing. This article will identify and examine the legal impediments to implementing shared housing programs which include: (1) failure to meet building code and density requirements; (2) antiquated definitions of family and cohabitation under zoning laws with a resultant lack of constitutional protections for unrelated people desiring to live together, (3) restrictive occupancy codes; (4) property tax assessment implications for conversion to shared use; (5) income tax and benefits eligibility intersectional challenges; (6) lack of traditional landlord tenant protections for informal shared housing arrangements; and (7) fair housing implications for shared housing. The challenge of funding and financing shared housing under current conventional and government financing structures is mentioned in Part V. Despite these legal impediments and financing challenges, shared housing presents a worthwhile endeavor as the benefits of shared housing include fostering social and intergenerational exchange and the potential for enhanced health outcomes such as aging in place and decreased social isolation. Lastly, this article will propose some regulatory and policy reforms to help alleviate barriers to the implementation of shared housing.
Author: Daniel G. Parolek Publisher: Island Press ISBN: 1642830542 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 330
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Today, there is a tremendous mismatch between the available housing stock in the US and the housing options that people want and need. The post-WWII, auto-centric, single-family-development model no longer meets the needs of residents. Urban areas in the US are experiencing dramatically shifting household and cultural demographics and a growing demand for walkable urban living. Missing Middle Housing, a term coined by Daniel Parolek, describes the walkable, desirable, yet attainable housing that many people across the country are struggling to find. Missing Middle Housing types—such as duplexes, fourplexes, and bungalow courts—can provide options along a spectrum of affordability. In Missing Middle Housing, Parolek, an architect and urban designer, illustrates the power of these housing types to meet today’s diverse housing needs. With the benefit of beautiful full-color graphics, Parolek goes into depth about the benefits and qualities of Missing Middle Housing. The book demonstrates why more developers should be building Missing Middle Housing and defines the barriers cities need to remove to enable it to be built. Case studies of built projects show what is possible, from the Prairie Queen Neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska to the Sonoma Wildfire Cottages, in California. A chapter from urban scholar Arthur C. Nelson uses data analysis to highlight the urgency to deliver Missing Middle Housing. Parolek proves that density is too blunt of an instrument to effectively regulate for twenty-first-century housing needs. Complete industries and systems will have to be rethought to help deliver the broad range of Missing Middle Housing needed to meet the demand, as this book shows. Whether you are a planner, architect, builder, or city leader, Missing Middle Housing will help you think differently about how to address housing needs for today’s communities.
Author: Charles L. Marohn, Jr. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1119564816 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 262
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A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.
Author: Professor David Marcouiller Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN: 1409488888 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 312
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Rural America is progressing through a dramatic and sustained post-industrial economic transition. For many, traditional means of household sustenance gained through agriculture, mining and rustic tourism are giving way to large scale corporate agriculture, footloose and globally competitive manufacturing firms, and mass tourism on an unprecedented scale. These changes have brought about an increased presence of affluent amenity migrants and returnees, as well as growing reliance on low-wage, seasonal jobs to sustain rural household incomes. This book argues that the character of rural housing reflects this transition and examines this using contemporary concepts of exurbanization, rural amenity-based development, and comparative distributional descriptions of the "haves" and the "have nots". Despite rapid in-migration and dramatic changes in land use, there remains a strong tendency for communities in rural America to maintain the idyllic small-town myth of large-lot, single-family home-ownership. This neglects to take into account the growing need for affordable housing (both owner-occupied and rental properties) for local residents and seasonal workers. This book suggests that greater emphasis be placed in rural housing policies that account for this rapid social and economic change and the need for affordable rural housing alternatives.
Author: Joseph N. Belden Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 240
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This book is about decent and affordable shelter in rural America, a little known and often overlooked issue in housing policy. The rural poor and their housing conditions are not widely discussed or examined within the professional literature. It explores decent and affordable shelter in rural areas, an often overlooked issue in housing policy.
Author: Mallory Katherine VanMeeter Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Informal shared housing refers to a range of accommodations where at least one member of a household is not on a lease and has no other formal housing protections-capturing situations like couch hopping, doubling up, informal hosting, and informal kinship care. In the U.S., many young adults and unaccompanied youth facing housing instability rely on informal shared housing for a place to stay. Some youth stay with people they know and trust, like extended family, friends' parents, mentors, or romantic partners. Given the current housing affordability crisis and barriers to housing access for many youth and young adults, formal and informal shared housing is a critical part of our community response to youth homelessness. However, prior research has established that informal shared housing, especially shorter-term arrangements, can have negative impacts on youth. Current advocacy and practice tends to approach shorter-term informal shared housing as a liability, with few services designed to address challenges and instability in these arrangements. Youth homelessness prevention programs often focus on nuclear families, missing the needs of longer-term informal shared housing with extended family or other natural supports. This dissertation project reframes safe informal shared housing as a community asset and a form of care work. I propose that instability and risk are not inherent to informal shared housing, and that structural inequities have played a role in eroding informal housing safety nets-particularly in families and communities of color. Drawing on interviews with youth and informal hosts, I highlight how individual, interpersonal, material, and structural challenges contribute to instability in informal shared housing. I extend these findings to identify promising policy, program, and practice changes that could stabilize and, when appropriate, formalize safe informal shared housing. This project paints a more complete picture of instability in safe informal shared housing and makes the case that family and other natural supports can and should be part of our efforts to prevent and address youth homelessness.
Author: Shane Phillips Publisher: Island Press ISBN: 1642831336 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 282
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From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crises of high housing costs and household instability. Debates over the appropriate course of action have been defined by two poles: building more housing or enacting stronger tenant protections. These options are often treated as mutually exclusive, with support for one implying opposition to the other. Shane Phillips believes that effectively tackling the housing crisis requires that cities support both tenant protections and housing abundance. He offers readers more than 50 policy recommendations, beginning with a set of principles and general recommendations that should apply to all housing policy. The remaining recommendations are organized by what he calls the Three S’s of Supply, Stability, and Subsidy. Phillips makes a moral and economic case for why each is essential and recommendations for making them work together. There is no single solution to the housing crisis—it will require a comprehensive approach backed by strong, diverse coalitions. The Affordable City is an essential tool for professionals and advocates working to improve affordability and increase community resilience through local action.
Author: Hemanta Doloi Publisher: ISBN: 9780429573743 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 182
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This book initiates a fresh discussion of affordability in rural housing set in the context of the rapidly shifting balance between rural and urban populations. It conceptualises affordability in rural housing along a spectrum that is interlaced with cultural and social values integral to rural livelihoods at both personal and community level. Developed around four intersecting themes: explaining houses and housing in rural settings; exploring affordability in the context of aspirations and vulnerability; rural development agendas involving housing and communities; and construction for resilience in rural communities, the book provides an overview of some of the little understood and sometimes counter-intuitive best practices on rural affordability and affordable housing that have emerged in developing economies over the last thirty years. Drawing on practice-based evidence this book presents innovative ideas for harnessing rural potential, and empowering rural communities with added affordability and progressive development in the context of housing and improved living standards. For a student aspiring to work in rural areas in developing countries it is an introduction to and map of some key solutions around the critical area of affordable housing For the rural development professional, it provides a map of a territory they rarely see because they are absorbed in a particular rural area or project For the academic looking to expand their activities into rural areas, especially in rural housing, it provides a handy introduction to a body of knowledge serving 47% of the world's population, and how this differs from urban practice For the policy makers, it provides a map for understanding the dynamics around rural affordability, growth potential and community aspirations helping them to devise appropriate intervention programs on rural housing and development
Author: Alison Lintal
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Author: Daniel G. Parolek
Author: Charles L. Marohn, Jr.
Author: Professor David Marcouiller
Author: Joseph N. Belden
Author: Mallory Katherine VanMeeter
Author: Shane Phillips
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Author: Hemanta Doloi