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Is Your Town Housing Ready?

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Learn the next steps local leaders can make to help their cities become housing ready.

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These Six Policies Will Make Your Town Housing Ready

These are policies that can be implemented on a local level, meaning your place doesn’t have to wait for help from above to fight back against the housing crisis.

Policy #1

Allow single-family home conversion to duplex or triplex, by right.

Policy #2

Permit backyard cottages in all residential zones.

Policy #3

Legalize starter homes in all residential zones.

Policy #4

Eliminate minimum lot size requirements in existing neighborhoods.

Policy #5

Repeal parking mandates for housing.

Policy #6

Streamline the approval process.

 

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