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Housing Intersections

Publications in this section highlight the many ways in which affordable housing can help advance other important community objectives, such as good health, educational achievement, individual asset building, and economic development. The Center’s work in this area seeks both to clarify and document the benefits of affordable housing and to suggest ways to structure affordable housing to better achieve these broader goals.


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.

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Sep 1, 2009
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What’s in a Name? Clarifying the Different Forms and Policy Objectives of

Jeffrey Lubell, Ryan Sherriff

This report seeks to clarify the overall characteristics of shared equity / shared appreciation homeownership programs, identify the distinguishing characteristics of the multiple programs, and show how the different programs fulfill somewhat distinct housing policy objectives.

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Sep 1, 2009
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Affordable, Compact and Well-Located Housing is Critical to Achieving the Nation’s Transportation Policy Objectives

Center for Housing Policy, National Housing Conference, Reconnecting America

This policy brief explains the importance of focusing on how and where housing is built as part of the larger effort to reform federal transportation policy.

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Jun 1, 2009
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Balancing Durable Affordability and Wealth Creation: Responding to Concerns about Shared Equity Homeownership

Rick Jacobus, Ryan Sherriff

This report explores community concerns over the potential limitation of wealth creation in shared equity homeownership programs and how to best balance permanent affordability and asset building in these programs. 

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Feb 1, 2009
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Insights from Housing Policy Research: Don't Put It Here! Does Affordable Housing Cause Nearby Property Values to Decline?

Center for Housing Policy

Part of a series of research briefs highlighting the findings and policy implications of housing policy research, this brief synthesizes the findings of several reviews of research examining whether affordable housing causes a decline in nearby property values.

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