Housing Affordability Resources

Articles 

New York Times: The Neighborhood Is Mostly Black. The Home Buyers Are Mostly White.

Hugo Render: Missing Middle Housing: Urban Density Meets Suburban Architecture

Vox: Everything you need to know about the affordable housing debate

Novogradac: Filtered, as opposed to naturally occurring, affordable housing

McKinsey & Company: Preserving the largest and most at-risk supply of affordable housing

The Urbanist: Visualizing compatible density

BPC: Housing 101: Impacts of Zoning on Affordable Supply

Cato Institute: Keeping North Carolina’s Housing Affordable

Urban Institute: Tracing the Money: Case Studies in the Budgetary and Zoning Policies of Exclusionary Municipalities

Missing Middle Housing Raleigh Planning Presentation

Federation of American Scientists Articles on Fresh Ideas to Increase Housing Supply

Websites

Missing Middle Housing

Raleigh Housing Authority Overview

Affordable Housing 101 (City of Raleigh)

NYU Furman Center: Learning from Land Use Reforms: Housing Outcomes and Regulatory Change

Montgomery County, Maryland: History of the MPDU Program

Pew Charitable Trusts Housing Policy Initiative

HUD.gov Housing Choice Vouchers Fact Sheet

HUD Exchange

Local Housing Solutions

Big Bold Ideas on Affordable Housing

Bipartisan Policy Center J. Ronald Terwilliger Center for Housing Policy

Urban Institute Housing Justice Hub

Parking Mandates Map - Parking Reform Network

Eviction Lab

Research + Presentations

Ben Stevens: A Seat at the Table Presentation

Vicki Been Presentation for WakeUP/RF Reception: The Housing Supply/Affordability Crisis: What Can We Do About It?

Raleigh City Council District A Town Hall: Raleigh Housing and Neighborhoods

Raleigh Housing & Neighborhoods District A Town Hall Presentation

Raleigh Affordable Housing Summit Recap 2024

Raleigh Housing Choice + Affordability

Harvard JCHS: The State of the Nation’s Housing 2024

Harvard JCHS: A Review of Barriers to Greater Use of Manufactured Housing for Entry-Level Homeownership

Mercatus: The Effects of Minimum-Lot-Size Reform on Houston Land Values

NYU Furman Center: Supply Skepticism Revisited

ULI: Higher-Density Development, Myth and Fact

Billings and Soliman: The Erosion of Homeownership and Minority Wealth

OSU: Impacts of bus rapid transit (BRT) on residential property values

UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies: Research Roundup: The Effects of Market-Rate Development on Neighborhood Rents

Harvard Kennedy School: Can Inclusionary Zoning Be an Effective Housing Policy in Greater Boston? Evidence from Lynn and Revere

Urban Institute: Addressing the Legacies of Historical Redlining

Urban Institute: Land Use

ULI: The Economics of Inclusionary Development

NYU: The Sustainable Densities Proposition

NYU: Supply Skepticism: Housing Supply and Affordability

Urban Institute: How are income and wealth linked to health and longevity?

HUD User: Mixed-Income Housing: Factors for Success

UNC School of Government: Development Agreements

NHLP: Achieving housing choice and mobility in the voucher program: Recommendations for the administration

Portland State University: Growth without displacement: A test for equity planning in Portland

AEA: Sand castles before the tide? Affordable housing in expensive cities

Mercatus Center: Inclusionary zoning and housing market outcomes

CBPP: Where families with children use housing vouchers

Shane Phillips: The Affordable City (book)

Cityscape: Density Control, Home Price Appreciation, and Rental Growth in the United States

Cityscape: Trends in Regulation and Affordability in Select US Metropolitan Areas and Communities

Cityscape: The Influence of Regulation on Residential Land Prices in United States Metropolitan Areas

White House: Housing Development Toolkit

Journal of Planning Education and Research: Racism behind Exclusionary Zoning

Where Self-Interest Trumps Ideology: Liberal Homeowners and Local Opposition to Housing Development

USHUD: New Housing Production Report

Brookings: “Gentle” density can save our neighborhoods

Brookings: To improve housing affordability, we need better alignment of zoning, taxes, and subsidies

Brookings: Who’s to blame for high housing costs? It’s more complicated than you think

Up for Growth: Housing Underproduction™ in the U.S. 2022

Fannie Mae: The US Housing Shortage from a Local Perspective

Raleigh Planning and Development: More Homes, More Choices