Corridor Housing Initiative

The Corridor Housing Initiative was the brainchild of Gretchen Nicholls, executive director of the Center for Neighborhoods, a nonprofit organization that supports neighborhood-based planning to create more livable places. The initiative aimed to assist in the planning and development of higher density affordable housing. To achieve its goal the Center set out to teach local people why density can be a good thing. The core of the initiative was a SimCity-like exercise in which residents could play the entrepreneur — creating a development plan and seeing what happens if a proposed infill project gets snipped down to a density neighbors prefer.