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Growth Management, Smart Growth, And Affordable Housing

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Kurt Sommer
4 June 2003 - 9:00am

A keynote peech by Anthony Downs on affordable housing and growth management.

This speech by Anthony Downs outlines the relationships between growthmanagement and affordable housing. It discusses the politics of smartgrowth and argues that smart growth goals would be furthered by much morewidespread creation of affordable housing, albeit difficult in thesuburbs.

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Source: The Brookings Institution, June 4, 2003
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