As communities across the country work to address massive housing shortage and affordability issues, a new guide from the American Planning Association and the National League of Cities can help decision-makers chart a clear path forward.

The American Planning Association, in partnership with the National League of Cities, recently released a free playbook for local elected officials and planners who are looking to boost the supply of housing in their communities. The 92-page “Housing Accelerator Playbook” outlines current, multi-pronged housing supply and affordability challenges faced by cities, towns, and villages across the United States — including construction, finance, land use regulations, and infrastructure — outlines a systems approach to address them, and provides a bevy of actionable strategies and real-life case studies to help communities chart their own paths forward.
In its own words, the playbook is “meant to serve as a starting point for engagement and alignment through public-private partnerships to produce attainable and locally driven plans of action that account for differences in local capacities and market conditions.” Within this resource, APA and NLC have compiled a wealth of expertise and thought leadership to offer a menu of effective strategies from which elected officials and local planners can choose according to their communities’ unique situations and needs. If you are a local housing policy decision-maker and haven’t already checked this resource out, it is definitely worth a gander.
FULL STORY: Housing Supply Accelerator Playbook Provides Solutions for Addressing Nation’s Housing Supply Crisis

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