Smart Growth Can Deliver Affordable Housing

Do smart growth policies increase the cost of building homes or help make home prices more affordable?

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May 3, 2003, 9:00 AM PDT

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.

Thanks to Keith Schneider

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