Affordable Housing & Transit-Oriented Development

Posted by on February 14, 2011

The latest from Shelterforce

In this issue: Affordable Housing & Transit-Oriented Development

Homeownership Today and Tomorrow: Building Assets While Preserving Affordability

In the latest issue of Shelterforce, we feature a trio of articles on Atlanta, where the Atlanta BeltLine has spurred a new way to bring community land trusts to scale. Our coverage is book-ended by an overview of TOD projects and how equity advocates are helping to shape plans, and a look at existing policy tools in place to build in affordability before land cost escalation.

This issue also continues our housing policy interview series with a talk with Deputy Secretary Ron Sims.
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An Affordable BeltLine?
The Atlanta BeltLine brings much promise to the city of Atlanta, but will elevated housing costs be an unwelcome addition? Atlanta is looking to a community land trust to preserve affordability for the long-term near this new asset.

http://nhi.org/go/AtlantaBeltLine/

Bringing CLTs to Scale
After struggling to legitimize the CLT concept in the city, the new Atlanta Land Trust Collaborative acts as a “central server” that on one hand serves as a CLT advocate and information provider, and on the other will balance citywide scope with local control of individual land trusts by existing CDCs.

http://nhi.org/go/ALTC/

Atlanta’s Pittsburgh Neighborhood
One Atlanta neighborhood’s experience of the housing bubble and expected transit investment leads it to invest in a land trust and a vision based in sustainability.

http://nhi.org/go/pittsburgh/

Deputy Secretary Ron Sims
Sims discusses lessons learned from heading up one of the largest counties in the country, and how HUD can be transformed into a “living lab,” bringing a new philosophical orientation to the department that emphasizes both public and private equity, innovation, and long-term sustainability.

http://nhi.org/go/sims/

Also in this issue, we look at

* The lease-purchase model to increase ownership
o  http://nhi.org/go/LeasePurchase/
* Permanent affordability and asset building
o http://nhi.org/go/PermanentAffordability/
* Saving power-building organizing
o http://nhi.org/go/PowerBuilding/
* Pierre Clavel’s Activists in City Hall
o http://nhi.org/go/ProgressiveCity/

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