PROJECT OVERVIEW: Local Housing Solutions is a website that provides cities, towns, and counties of different sizes and capacities with helpful resources to develop strategies that enhance housing affordability, protect low-income residents from displacement, and foster inclusive neighborhoods. Local Housing Solutions provides cities, towns, and counties resources to develop comprehensive and balanced housing strategies that: Enhance affordability; Protect low-income residents from displacement and foster inclusive neighborhoods. Launched in October of 2018, the non-partisan site was developed through the National Community of Practice (CoP) on Local Housing Policy, a project of the NYU Furman Center and Abt Associates. Unlike most other guides that focus on a limited number of policy options, LocalHousingSolutions.org provides guidance on the full array of housing policy tools available to local government, including: planning, zoning, tax, permitting, city/county subsidy, and housing authority tools.
CATEGORY: Professional SETTING: Urban STATUS: On-going
BY: NYU Furman Center
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: Unlike most other guides that focus on a limited number of policy options, LocalHousingSolutions.org provides guidance on the full array of housing policy tools available to local government, including: planning, zoning, tax, permitting, city/county subsidy, and housing authority tools. Features and highlights include: Explainer videos for beginners; Guidance on local housing needs assessment; Multiple entry-points to content: Issue-specific; By policy objective; Policy library; Self-Assessment tool to curate site content for users.
LHS has cultivated an international audience with a wide reach — the site attracts over 2,000 unique visitors a month. We view this interest as strong evidence of the demand among local governments, citizens, and stakeholders for guidance and technical assistance in developing local housing strategies that can help relieve pressure on prices and rents.
PARTNERS: Local Housing Solutions is the result of a three-year National Community of Practice (CoP) on local housing policy that brought together 14 experts from across the country spanning every sector of the affordable housing industry. Click here to view all of the CoP partners. [https://www.localhousingsolutions.org/about-us/] Funding for the CoP has generously been provided by the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The Kresge Foundation and the JP Morgan Chase Foundation provide continued funding for LocalHousingSolutions.org.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
charles.mcnally@nyu.edu
WEBSITE
REPRESENTED IN THIS PROJECT