Smart Growth Can Deliver Affordable Housing

Smart Growth's critics, particularly homebuilders, have claimed duringmeetings of the Michigan Land Use Leadership Council that any policythatdiscourages the ever-outward march of new subdivisions will make newhouses more difficult to build and more expensive to buy. But in a newpiece for the Institute's Web site, Jim Lively reports that neither istrue. In fact, Jim writes, Smart Growth policies in Michigan will helpmake home prices more affordable.