The Accessibility Reference Manual is an easy reference for all building professionals. Its primary purpose is to clarify and organize the existing different sets of standards of accessibility and to illustrate their relationship to each other.
Read MoreThis Alexandria Council of Human Services Organizations report is the second in a series aiming to identify Alexandria's housing and social service needs and outlining what needs to be done to address them.
Read MoreAccording to this 2009 report, workforce households are largely priced out of both rental and for-sale housing near major employment centers in and around the city of Washington, DC.
Read MoreThis Partnership for Housing Affordability report addresses current and future housing needs for the Richmond region, impediments to meeting these needs, and proposed strategies based on successful case studies.
Read MoreA 2007 report from the Southern Environmental Law Center that covers trends in housing affordability, demographics, development and transportation in the Richmond region.
Read MoreHousingForward Virginia and Virginia Tech's Center for Housing Research released this 2014 study that demonstrates the impact of energy efficient construction requirements in affordable rental housing. The report shows that the average resident of an energy efficient apartment saves $54 per month on their electricity bill, which amounts to $648 annually.
Read MoreThis ULI Washington and National Housing Conference report examines what can be learned from land economics, DC-area development costs, public land policies culled from various jurisdictions nationwide and three recent public land deals in the DC region, to help craft more effective public land policies and joint-development approaches.
Read MoreA 2013 report from George Mason's Center for Regional Analysis looking at the growing housing needs as the Washington Metropolitan region's economy and workforce expands.
Read MoreA 2014 report from the National Housing Conference's Center for Housing Policy looking at the growing housing needs as the Hampton Roads region's economy and workforce expands.
Read MoreThis 2014 National Housing Conference paper profiles six localities that have adopted inclusionary housing policies tied to upzoning, referred to here as "inclusionary upzoning.” The paper explores how neighborhood context, market context, and policy design may affect the success of inclusionary upzoning policies and their potential for adoption in new areas of the country where inclusionary housing has not yet been implemented.
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