Architecture Here and There

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

For example, the Providence Preservation Society and its revolving fund helped finance many rescues of old buildings facing demolition in downtown. The extensive cost of governments’ ignoring the science, and suppressing voices that promoted more sensible strategies, should not be borne by citizens.

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Santa Cruz Architect

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Just recently, Freddie Mac updated their ADU financing options and CalHFA extended their ADU Grant Program to help even more homeowners build backyard homes. While the Senate voted to pass the law, it will need to be re-reviewed by the Committee on Governance and Finance before it can be passed into law. Nonconforming Structure.

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Community Architect Daily

MARCH 8, 2024

A train without development: Failing mall next to a transit station (Photo: Philipsen) With zoning squarely in the hands of local council representatives, NIMBY pressure is always on them to keep new housing in existing communities at bay, especially denser multifamily housing that could bring "those people" to their neighborhood.

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Zoning Regulation Masterplanning Real Estate 84

Dwell

JUNE 26, 2022

On the supply side, the Hawaii Housing Finance & Development Corporation develops and finances low- and moderate-income housing projects. It manages an affordable housing fund and grants developers exemptions to certain planning, zoning, and construction rules if a majority of a project’s units are affordable.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The Federal Housing Administration has announced expanded financing options for "granny flats" that are meant to make a dent in the affordable housing crisis. But this week, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced new policies that expand mortgage financing options for dwellings that have, or will include, an ADU.

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Community Architect

MARCH 8, 2024

A train without development: Failing mall next to a transit station (Photo: Philipsen) With zoning squarely in the hands of local council representatives, NIMBY pressure is always on them to keep new housing in existing communities at bay, especially denser multifamily housing that could bring "those people" to their neighborhood.

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Zoning Regulation Masterplanning Real Estate 52

Santa Cruz Architect

MARCH 19, 2024

However, local governments retain the authority to impose objective design standards and limitations as long as they align with the state law’s requirements. Qualifying urban properties in single-family zones can leverage SB-9 to add a second unit, facilitating multigenerational living arrangements or rental opportunities.

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Community Architect

AUGUST 28, 2020

Naturally, work isn't totally binary: There are grey zones in between the virtual and the physical blocks of work which combine physical and virtual, such as tele-medicine, remote teaching and remote conferencing that will not entirely eliminate the need for the physical spaces but reduce the frequency in which they are used.

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Santa Cruz Architect

JULY 16, 2023

The State of California has a recognized housing shortage, with the result that both Sacramento and local municipalities throughout California have made myriad recent changes to the regulations governing ADUs. Internal access to a bathroom.

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e-architect

JANUARY 25, 2022

Supported by the Scottish Government, the Award recognises the contribution housing makes to social and cultural conversations and rewards innovation. The Scottish Government has agreed that Fife College can progress to the next stage of its project to deliver the first net zero tertiary education building in Scotland. 24 Nov 2021.

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Habitus Living

AUGUST 2, 2022

A BillionBricks home is the world’s first self-financing home, that combines housing and solar energy into a single investible financial solution. The community produces surplus solar energy, which is then sold through Power Purchase Agreements, providing an essential guarantee to raise financing for the project.

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Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

Governments ignore that at their peril.”. This elegant complex includes rehearsal spaces and public zones in addition to a central performance area, celebrating the sense in which theatre is a community. As architects, we’ve got so much to offer. Cécile Brisac.

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Deezen

APRIL 3, 2024

Since the early 2000s, a number of South African cities have been designated Urban Development Zones (UDZ), encouraging private developers to take on inner-city renewal and refurbishment projects through tax incentives. The policy has increasingly seen low-cost housing delivered outside of traditional government grant programmes.

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Dwell

APRIL 15, 2022

But the most important measure we’ve been working on is a revamp of the citywide zoning code, which has been basically untouched since the 1980s. And while all this is going on, prices here just keep going up. That’s what I mean when I say the status quo just doesn’t hold water.

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Zoning Housing Finances Cities 61

EntreArchitect

JANUARY 24, 2017

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Community Architect

MAY 23, 2022

San Diego's downtown housing, inclusionary zoning with a density bonus program , and a 10 year homeless strategy present a creative and broad arsenal of solutions, but they have not made a noticeable difference or tamed the run away housing cost yet. There is no great nation that wasn't thriving on the shoulders of a great city.

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Raj Patel

MAY 20, 2021

The Indian government has done all kinds of things in the name of modernisation. When Shashank Yadav took to Twitter to plead for oxygen to save his dying grandfather last month , the Indian government swept into action. The Indian government can’t lock up every journalist, no matter how much they’d like to. Witness, progress.

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Deezen

JUNE 27, 2022

The former president believes that some of the problems found in Chicago and other major cities in the US are the result of government policy and zoning decisions. He added that to solve the issues, local and federal laws needed to be geared toward financing affordable, energy-sustainable mixed-use and mixed-income communities.

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Raj Patel

MAY 4, 2021

When the Philippines was a US colony between 1898 and 1946, Filipino workers were exempted from the “Asiatic barred zone”’ to work in the US sugar plantations in Hawaii , replacing more militant Japanese labourers. In the process, cotton laid the basis of finance, police and government that made the United States.

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