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NAHB Develops Land Use Resources for Home Builders and Buyers

The Pro Builder

Each primer focuses on a component of land-use policy and the impact it has on builders and buyers: density, zoning, and development review. Density In many communities, zoning laws restrict the amount of land that can be used for residential purposes, often in the form of minimum lot sizes or density requirements.

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Cracking the code of affordable housing

BDC Network

Fang leads a seminar on affordable housing at New York University with Principal Theodore Liebman, a veteran in the field. Washington, DC, offers an inclusionary zoning program that allows residential developers to build more units than would normally be permitted as long as eight to 10% of those units are affordable.

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Minnesota Couple is Building a Straw Bale House

Natural Building

The two had been planning to construct a passive home for years and were waiting for city zoning code to comply. Working with their architects and city planners, they eventually applied for a cluster development permit.