HOUSING SOLUTIONS

A Western Matters Topic

Imagine working countless hours only to be priced out of your own neighborhood. Home prices in the Western US have soared by 40% in the past five years, outpacing wage growth by a staggering 25%. It's a crisis which affects us all.

KEY WESTERN PLANNER ARTICLES ON HOUSING

Homes on the Range Series by Arthur C. Nelson, Ph.D., FAICP

Levers of Housing Affordability: Strategies and Tools for Planners

by Jamin Kimmell and Catherine Corliss, AICP

Creating Missing Middle Housing Through State and Local Zoning Reform

by Brian J. Connolly

Strategies to preserve mobile parks and to mitigate displacement when they are closed

by Shelby Sommer in collaboration with Don Elliott, Ken Waido, and Ishbel Dickens

Do tiny houses fit into your community?

by Jayna Watson, AICP, Spearfish, South Dakota

Opening Zoning Barriers to the Missing Middle in Bend, Oregon

By Pauline Hardie, Senior Code Planner (City of Bend); Lynne McConnell, Housing Director (City of Bend); Allison Platt, Core Area Project Manager (City of Bend)

Overcoming Objections to Zoning Reform: A Primer for Planners

By Jamin Kimmell, AICP; Lydia Ness; and Rachel Cotton, AICP - Cascadia Partners

 

 

OTHER RESOURCES

Download the Housing Solutions Booklet

Access the Breaking the Code toolkit

Download the APA’s Housing Supply Accelerator Playbook