Housing Policy Case Studies

This case study features the Atlanta Land Trust (ALT), a CLT founded to address homeownership affordability and legacy resident displacement along the Atlanta BeltLine.

The share of the country’s population that is 65 and older has grown significantly in recent decades. People are living longer, birth rates are lower, and baby boomers (an estimated 73 million people born between 1946 and 1964) are aging.

This case study dives into the Unity Council’s community engagement process, which centers racial equity in its goals to improve quality of life for Arlington residents.

This Cincinnati program enables renters to build financial assets while contributing to and benefitting from the management of their apartment communities.

To address its homelessness epidemic, the city of Oakland created the Community Cabins Program, an initiative that relies on the thoughtful use of data and participation from the local government, citizens, and private organizations to help combat unsheltered homelessness.

Read how ten different localities enacted emergency rental assistance programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The additional housing financed by the bond is projected to increase Durham’s affordable housing stock by at least a third, as well as create nearly 3,000 jobs in construction and operations.

Through its elimination of significant barriers, Portland has taken substantial steps to facilitate ADUs.

Read how ten different localities implemented housing trust funds to support affordable housing development and activities.

Read how ten different localities implemented linkage fees to raise revenue for affordable housing.

LA voters passed Proposition HHH, which enabled City officials to issue $1.2 billion in bonds to develop permanent supportive housing units for people experiencing homelessness.

Minneapolis was the first large American city to eliminate single-family zoning.

To create a set of coordinated strategies to advance equity throughout the region, 21 North Texas localities and housing authorities conducted a regional Assessment of Fair Housing for the North Texas Region.

Philadelphia RRR program offers low-interest home repair loans to local homeowners who may be excluded from traditional mortgage markets because of racial bias or credit history.

To address elevated blood levels of lead (EBLL) found among the city’s low-income children, the “lead law” appears to have played an important role in reducing the prevalence rate of EBLLs in Monroe County.

The city of Chapel Hill, NC implemented a form-based code to regulate land development in one area of the town known as the Blue Hill District.

Facing an escalating housing crisis, Vancouver, WA, enacted a property tax levy that is expected to raise $42 million over the course of seven years for an affordable housing fund.