The Hannibal Square Community Land Trust is dedicated to creating and preserving the quality and affordability of housing within Winter Park and other Central Florida communities. They provide opportunities for low, very low and moderate-income families to secure housing that is controlled by the residents on a long-term basis. To achieve its goals, the Land Trust obtains real property which it then leases to qualified buyers on a 99-year ground lease. The buyer is able to buy a home, removing the often-prohibitive cost of the land from the equation.

Hannibal Square Community Land Trust

Preservation is a critical component in ensuring a sufficient supply of affordable rental housing. 22 percent of Miami-Dade County’s assisted housing stock (95 developments with 9,694 assisted units) was identified at heightened risk of affordability loss because of expiring subsidies, aging facilities, or both. Miami Homes for All, the National Housing Trust, and the Shimberg Center for Housing Studies jointly set forth to assess the region’s existing assisted housing stock, identify local barriers to preservation of this stock, and make tailored recommendations on how to advance preservation in the City of Miami (Miami) and Miami-Dade County.

Pathway to Greater Preservation – Policy Brief

Pathway to Greater Preservation – Report

Miami NOAH Kickoff

Ability Housing develops and operates quality rental housing affordable to persons with extremely limited incomes; administers rental assistance to help chronically homeless households access market rate housing; and partner’s with area service organizations to ensure residents have the supports they require to maintain their housing and increase their independent living skills. All Ability Housing residents are low-income, earning 80% or less of the area median income (AMI). Most are very low-income, earning 50% or less of the AMI; and extremely low-income, earning 30% or less of AMI. Currently, the average annual income of ability housing’s residents is $8,465. ability managed approximately 400 housing units currently, and 100 additional units are in progress.

Ability Housing

Ability Housing Annual Report 2017

Bluegrass-Aspendale, Kentucky’s oldest public housing project, was redeveloped and transformed by the Lexington Housing Authority into attractive clustered residential units using New Urbanism design principles. Beginning with a $20 million HUD Hope VI grant, Lexington Housing Authority administration served as its own developer, attracted public and private partners, and leveraged the grant into a revitalization project whose worth tallies just south of $100 million. The goal was to make the housing indistinguishable from its surrounding areas, and to make it less isolated by connecting it to surrounding streets. The following developments/phases were completed: Grand Oaks (88 apartments), The Shropshire (80 townhomes), Bridlewood (88 apartments), Shropshire East (32 townhomes), Twin Oaks Park (60 townhomes), and Equestrian View (102 single-family homes).

Lexington Housing Authority

Bex Construction - Bluegrass Aspendale III

The Lane Report: Diamonds From the Rough

Truax Park Apartments Master Planning Project

Housing staff worked with both the Long-Range Planning Subcommittee and the Truax ad hoc Master Planning Committee to develop a long-range planning concept for the Truax Park site. In 2007, the Truax site was chosen as a focal point for redevelopment planning.

The master planning and site development study for the Truax Park Apartments builds upon the recommendations made by the Community Development Authority of the City of Madison (CDA) Long-Range Planning Sub-Committee to revitalize the Truax Park Apartments into a mixed-income community. The site is comprised of 147 public housing units on CDA-owned land that is administered by CDA Housing Operations, and includes the East Madison Community Center.

Final Study: Truax Park Apts Master Planning & Site Development Study 2/2008

City of Madison Affordable Housing Strategy

Madison’s low-income population faces a large and persistent problem of a lack of affordable housing that results in high levels of housing cost burden and at the extreme, homelessness.

The primary goal of the City of Madison Affordable Housing Strategy is to support the development of approximately 750 additional units of affordable rental housing by committing over $20 million dollars to a new Affordable Housing Fund. Most of these funds will be used to take advantage of federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits to finance new housing development. Developments will be encouraged to locate in sites served by public transit, healthcare, grocery, and other key amenities. Funds will also be used to support homeownership programs while continuing to finance existing programs and agencies through current funding mechanisms.

Dane County Housing Initiative

Affortable Housing Examples

There are a variety of housing types that communities can use to diversify their housing supply and meet the needs of their residents. Links to some examples of single family, multi-family, co-housing and cooperative housing models communities can consider to help meet the demand for more affordable homes.

2016 Dane County Housing Summit - Fact Sheet on Housing Financing Tools

Portland Affordable Housing Bond

Portland voters passed Measure 26-179 on November 8, 2016, the city's first ever affordable housing bond. The $258 million bond passed with 62% of the vote, and will allow the city to build and preserve an additional 1,300 units of affordable housing. The housing bond will raise property taxes 42 cents per $1,000 of assessed value. The funds will be administered by the Portland Housing Bureau with a focus on building and preserving affordable housing for households between 30-60% of the area median income (currently $22,000 to $43,080 for a family of four).

Portland's Housing Bond

Portland's Housing Bond Factsheet

Portland's Housing Bond - Policy Framework

Portland 10506 E Burnside Factsheet

Riverfront Crossings is a new neighborhood just south of downtown featuring a waterfront park, a variety of housing options near shopping, restaurants, jobs, a state-of-the-art recital hall and recreational facilities, just a short walk to Downtown Iowa City and the University of Iowa campus. The Downtown and Riverfront Crossings Master Plan was developed with significant public input and will serve as a framework to guide future public and private investment.

The Iowa City City Council adopted Ordinance 16-4668 on July 5, 2016 to establish an Affordable Housing Requirement in certain areas of the City. Upon rezoning to a riverfront crossings zoning designation, the property owner shall enter into an affordable housing agreement with the city establishing which method or methods it will utilize.

Iowa City Urban Planning Office - Riverfront Crossings

Iowa City Affordable Housing Requirement

Requirement

Development with 10 or more dwelling units must provide min 10% affordable

dwelling units

Applicable area

Riverfront Crossings District

76 acre downtown mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly, redevelopment area

Build-out projection 900 dwelling units / 76 ac = 11.8 du/ac

Min and max building heights; No maximum density

Incentives

5 floor building height bonus for 15% affordable housing

Methods

On-site owner occupied units

On-site rental units

Fee in lieu

Off-site units (if above – on site, fee in lieu – shown infeasible)

Contribution of land (if above – on site, fee in lieu – shown infeasible)

Term of Affordability

No less than 10 years

Sale price may not exceed purchase price or HUD limit

Required rental units may “float” throughout development

Fair Market Rent – 3BR $1,473

Documentation

Deed restriction

Income eligibility

Owner-occupied household < 110% AMI      $95,480 for family of 4

Rental household < 60% AMI              $52,080 for family of 4