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Sustainable Communities
Coordinating Housing and Transportation Policy
This section features publications that look beyond the specific question of how much housing costs to consider how affordable housing can contribute to broader sustainability and energy-efficiency objectives. Among other topics, this section examines the combined costs of housing and transportation and explores strategies for reducing those combined costs to improve overall affordability, such as affordable transit-oriented development. This section also examines how to improve energy-efficiency of existing and new homes.
Apr 1, 2010
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The Boston Regional Challenge: Examining the Costs and Impacts of Housing and Transportation on Area Residents, their Neighborhoods, and the Environment
Center for Housing Policy, Center for Neighborhood Technology, Urban Land Institute Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing
This report finds that the average working household in the Boston region spends over $34,000 a year -- or 54 percent of their income -- on the combined costs of housing and transportation.
Mar 1, 2010
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AARP Factsheet: Linking Transportation and Housing Solutions for Older Adults
Emily Salomon
Safe, affordable, and accessible transportation choices are critical for older adults who wish to remain independent. Through transportation program improvements and improved coordination of housing, transportation, and land-use policy, communities can help ensure that older adults have good transportation access to needed services and amenities.
Feb 1, 2010
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How Transportation Reform Could Increase the Availability of Housing Affordable to Families with a Mix of Incomes Near Public Transit, Job Centers, and Other Essential Destinations
Jeffrey Lubell, Emily Salomon
This report explains how reauthorization of the federal transportation bill can incent the improved coordination of transportation, housing and land use policy to ensure that families across a range of incomes have access to affordable housing as well as efficient, accessible transportation options.
Feb 1, 2010
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Regional Coordination in Atlanta Metro and in the Twin Cities: Understanding the Challenges and Opportunities of Coordinating Housing, Transportation and Workforce Policies
Lynn M. Ross, AICP, Emily Salomon
The Center for Housing Policy and the Metropolitan Planning Council convened listening sessions in Atlanta and the Twin Cities in 2009 to explore regional perspectives on the coordination of housing, transportation and workforce policies. This report draws and expands upon the information shared at these two sessions.
Nov 1, 2009
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Bay Area Burden: Examining the Hidden Costs of Housing and Transportaion on Bay Area Residents, their Neighborhoods, and the Environment
Center for Housing Policy, Center for Neighborhood Technology, Urban Land Institute Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing
This report finds that the average working household in the Bay Area spends almost $45,000 a year -- or 59 percent of their income -- on the combined costs of housing and transportation.
As a complement to the report, the Terwilliger Center also released the Terwilliger Cost Calculator, which provides consumers with up-to-date Bay Area metro area housing and transportation cost data that they can use to make informed decisions on where to live and work.