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  • The Forgotten Answer to the Affordable Housing Crisis

    February 03, 2022 |

    Eugene Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Eugene, Oregon

    Housing cooperatives were once a successful strategy for creating affordable housing. The method has been traced back to the 19th century in New York City and is now making a comeback. Limited equity cooperatives are owned by multiple people who make a payment for buy-in and create a board that makes collective decisions about the property and how it’s run. Unlike other coops, residents can’t decide to sell and make a large profit which maintains the affordability over time.

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  • How Cleveland is salvaging old buildings to create a new circular economy

    February 01, 2022 |

    The Land |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Developers in Cleveland are salvaging building parts that can be reused in other construction projects. The sustainable initiative known as deconstructing helps reduce carbon footprints and helps avoid the “high social and environmental costs of dumping demolition material in landfills.”

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  • On the bricks: Efforts to increase commercial affordability in Boulder and beyond take time and planning

    November 11, 2021 |

    Boulder Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    A big factor in the high costs of doing business in Boulder is a tight and expensive commercial real estate market. Some of the many initiatives the city is considering are beginning to work already in Portland. There, the city's economic development agency, Prosper Portland, has acted as an intermediary to open more affordable spaces to small, local businesses. With extras like marketing and accounting help, the program managed to retain all of its original tenants, although a big push to enlist private developers in creating new space has hit snags.

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  • Mobile turns blighted homes into affordable housing

    November 11, 2021 |

    AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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    Response Location: United States, Mobile, Alabama

    Home makeovers are increasing the stock of available affordable housing in Mobile. Instead of constructing new developments, the city is repairing vacant homes with federal housing funds, resulting in a “53 percent drop in blighted properties” while simultaneously alleviating the housing shortage.

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  • Here's how Charlotte could turn property taxes into rental help

    November 02, 2021 |

    The Charlotte Observer |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    Property taxes are being used to subsidize rent for households that earn up to 30 percent of the area median income. The pilot program allows landlords to use the tax rebates to cover rent for tenants who would be unable to live there otherwise. The initiative makes rent more affordable and also keeps affordable housing from being sold to developers who create luxury apartments, reducing the available affordable housing stock.

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  • In Big Sky, New Affordable Housing Program Pays Property Owners to Rent to Locals

    October 04, 2021 |

    Jackson Hole Community Radio (KHOL) |

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    Response Location: United States, Big Sky, Montana

    A local initiative in this Montana town is attempting to alleviate the housing and labor shortages. Homeowners are given a financial incentive to rent to locals who work in the area. The Big Sky Community Housing Trust helps homeowners find renters and identify an appropriate price point for their unit. For a two-year commitment of renting to a local worker, homeowners receive $14,500.

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  • Off-Site Construction Offers Partial Solution to Housing Crunch

    October 01, 2021 |

    Koto Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Norwood, Colorado

    A housing initiative is providing affordable housing for local workers in Norwood, Colorado. The Telluride Foundation is building houses in factories which significantly reduces the price of buying a home, making home ownership a possibility for residents who live and work in the town.

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  • How Building Community Value puts local development into the hands of Detroiters

    September 23, 2021 |

    Detour Detroit |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Students of the Better Buildings, Better Blocks class are getting a lesson in real estate development. Not only do participants have the chance to build a business, they will also be doing it in their own neighborhoods and therefore investing in their own community. The course was hatched as an idea to work toward bridging the racial wealth gap and allowing Black community members in Detroit to access real estate development projects.

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  • Some Mountain Towns are Eyeing Vancouver-style Vacancy Taxes. Could it Help Address Housing Crises?

    September 21, 2021 |

    Jackson Hole Community Radio (KHOL) |

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    Response Location: Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia

    Vancouver’s taxes on vacant residences have reduced the number of empty homes and apartments. The tax on empty homes was levied in an effort to ease the lack of housing, especially affordable housing. The tax has generated money for affordable housing projects in addition to encouraging property owners to rent out their residences. The success of the tax is encouraging other cities to enact similar laws.

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  • The great experiment—Can resident-owned mobile home parks save manufactured housing communities?

    September 16, 2021 |

    Boulder Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

    Mobile home owners in Colorado are beginning to own their own communities due in part to legislation that is making it easier to do so. Resident-owned communities preserve the affordable housing stock, which manufactured home communities make up a large percentage of.

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