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NAA members can read below for more information about:

Smart Growth
Balanced Housing
Brownfields
Impact Fees

Mixed Use
NIMBY
Tax Credits/Incentives
Urban

Smart Growth

Smart Growth - Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change 04/01/2008

This book advocates for compact development and documents how key changes in land development patterns could help reduce vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.

Smart Growth Implementation Toolkit 01/01/2008

The Toolkit is designed to help community leaders review and revise their land use policies, zoning and development codes and project design standards.

Smart Growth - Toward a New Metropolis: The Opportunity To Rebuild America 12/01/2004

This Brookings Institution report examines projected trends at the national, state and metropolitan level to determine the estimated demand for new housing, commercial, and industrial space over the next quarter century.

Building Codes/Smart Growth/Tax credits/Incentives - 2003 Building for Tomorrow 01/01/2003

This document presents a compendium of innovative alternatives that might be applied by public and private entities in search of solutions.

Smart Growth- Good Design Can Make Apartment Living More Than a Low-Rent Alternative to a House 07/13/2002

Living in an apartment carries neither social nor economic stigma. Yet many people see it as a compromise, driven by financial and utilitarian necessity rather than social and aesthetic advantages.

Smart Growth - Response to APA Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook 03/19/2002

NAA/NMHC response and guidance to the American Planning Association's Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook.

Smart Growth - Testimony Supporting Smart Growth 03/06/2002

NAA/NMHC testimony before the U.S. Senate committee on Environment and Public Works, in support of S. 975, The Community Character Act.

Smart Growth - Coalition Dissent on American Planning Association's Growing Smart Guidebook //

Dissenting Comments on the American Planning Association's Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook.

Balanced Housing

Balanced Housing Policy - NAA/NMHC Housing Crisis Testimony Before the U.S. House, April 2008 04/10/2008

The current situation in the for-sale housing market is an extremely unfortunate turn of events that is made even more unfortunate by the fact that it was completely foreseeable and preventable.

Balanced Housing Policy- Letter to House Ways Means Committee Opposing Home Purchase Tax Deductions 04/09/2008

A home buyer tax credit will not help people stay in their houses, and it will not fix the credit crisis.

Balanced Housing Policy - Home Ownership Talking Points 2005 07/15/2005

On February 2, 2004 the Administration announced a proposal to create zero-downpayment federally insured home mortgages for low-income households with good credit and zero down payment loans for households with blemished credit.

Balanced Housing - Testimony to House Financial Services Committee, June 2005 06/30/2005

Apartments are no longer the housing of last resort. As American lifestyles have gotten busier, young professionals and empty nesters who could afford to buy are choosing to rent instead.

Balanced Housing Policy - Pushing Back on Home Ownership, March 2005 03/11/2005

Homeownership has always been an important part of America’s housing policy, but there is mounting evidence that America is pushing the homeownership envelope too far.

Balanced Housing Policy - Pushing Back Home Ownership Feb 2005 02/25/2005

Homeownership is an important part of the American fabric, but it isn't for everyone and universal homeownership won’t make our nation stronger.

Balanced Housing - Testimony to House Financial Services Committee, March 2004 03/24/2004

The pursuit of homeownership is a worthy goal, but we must be careful not to oversell homeownership. Many families never question whether buying a house is a path to financial security.

Balanced Housing - Housing Counseling Testimony Before House Subcommittee on Housing and Community Oppurtunity 03/18/2004

Not only does America need apartment homes, but a growing number of Americans want them. As American lifestyles have gotten busier, young professionals and empty nesters who could afford to buy are choosing to rent instead.

Balanced Housing Policy - Paradigm Brochure //

After years of struggling with traffic, pollution, long commutes and overcrowded schools, Americans are calling for more livable communities.

Balanced Housing Policy - Paradigm Sample Letter //

Paradigm Sample Letter

Balanced Housing Policy - Apartment Living: The New American Dream? //

Powerpoint that illustrates how apartments are good for communities.

Brownfields

Brownfields - Report on State Brownfield Financing Tools 04/05/2005

As capital gaps remain the biggest barrier to brownfield redevelopment, more than half the states have created some type of brownfield financing program. Direct financial assistance and indirect financing tools meet several objectives.

Brownfields - Coalition Testimony on Tax Credits 04/30/2002

Redevelopment of existing sites and properties is an important component of any community’s development plans. The U.S. Conference of Mayors estimates that there are over 400,000 brownfields sites across the country.

Brownfields - 2001 Reform Law 01/01/2001

An Act to provide certain relief for small businesses from liability under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980.

Impact Fees

Impact Fees - 2006 Research, "Desperately Seeking Equity" 08/21/2006

Impact fees have emerged in many U.S. municipalities as a frequently employed solution for funding infrastructure improvements.

Mixed Use

Mixed Use - Multifamily Housing in Mixed Use Activity Centers 01/01/2008

The geography, volume, and character of future metropolitan housing demand will be shaped by the complex interaction of multiple factors, ranging from global political and economic factors to technological innovation and local government policy.

NIMBY

NIMBY - "Getting Density Right" Toolkit 05/27/2008

Collaborative effort between NMHC and ULI, this book describes tools communities can use to promote compact development.

NIMBY - Overcoming Local Resistance Jan 2007 01/10/2007

Resistance to multifamily rental housing is a growing phenomenon in communities around the country. Indeed, opposition to any type of new housing development has become so pervasive that the area of community resistance has spawned its own vocabulary.

NIMBY - NAA/NMHC NIMBY White Paper May 2006 05/01/2006

This white paper is designed to help apartment firms overcome NIMBY opposition.

NIMBY - Higher-Density Development: Myth and Fact 05/01/2005

This publication by NMHC, the Sierra Club and ULI debunks eight widespread misconceptions about higher-density development.

NIMBY - Re-Thinking Density PowerPoint 05/01/2005

This PowerPoint presentation makes the case for higher-density development and rebuts common myths and fears associated with density.

NIMBY - Nimbyism White Paper 02/07/2002

Local opposition to proposed high-density housing developments is one of the greatest challenges facing efforts to promote smart growth in the United States.

Tax Credits/Incentives

Energy Policy - Energy Efficiency Tax Incentives 07/10/2009

In 2008, Congress attached energy efficiency tax incentives to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. This document details incentives of interest to apartment firms and offers resources for firms interested in taking advantage of incentives.

Credits/Exemptions - Federal Energy Efficiency Tax Incentives Guidance 10/31/2008

Guidance document detailing three main energy efficiency tax incentives of interest to apartment firms.

Building Codes/Smart Growth/Tax credits/Incentives - 2003 Building for Tomorrow 01/01/2003

This document presents a compendium of innovative alternatives that might be applied by public and private entities in search of solutions.

Brownfields - Coalition Testimony on Tax Credits 04/30/2002

Redevelopment of existing sites and properties is an important component of any community’s development plans. The U.S. Conference of Mayors estimates that there are over 400,000 brownfields sites across the country.

Tax Credits/Incentives - Innovative Infrastructure Finance //

This document, Infrastructure Finance, is Part Two in a series about innovative infrastructure tools and bridges two signifi cant pieces of research.

Tax Credits/Incentives - A Summary of State Legislation to Encourage Innovative Infrastructure Solutions //

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) published a report entitled Building for Tomorrow: Innovative Infrastructure Solutions.

Urban

Section 8 - 2010 Department of Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Bill 09/11/2009

In this letter to Appropriation Committee leaders, NAA/NMHC request that specific affordable housing concerns be addressed in the FY 2010 appropriations cycle.

Smart Growth - Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change 04/01/2008

This book advocates for compact development and documents how key changes in land development patterns could help reduce vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.

Urban - Measuring and Interpreting the Recent Increase in Central City Housing Construction June 2000 06/08/2000

This paper first describes trends in central city and suburban housing construction during the 1990s, using data from each of the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas.

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Natural Resources Defense Council

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