Housing development in the United States isn’t a one-size-fits-all model. Different types of neighborhoods and urban forms have different financing needs. Kudos to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for taking these steps.
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Federal housing programs that support multi-family housing have started to make it easier to get loans for projects that combine residential space with ground-floor retail.
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Growing numbers of Americans want to live in walkable communities. Yet outdated federal restrictions make it harder to build the types of buildings that make these communities work, new RPA research has found.
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The federal government can improve housing choices and remove barriers to investing in urban areas, and especially in poor neighborhoods and without additional subsidy, simply by reforming the outdated program rules inhibiting mixed-use.
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While the most common image of poverty is a high-rise public housing project, in fact many of America’s poor live in the very type of neighborhood where investment is impeded by current financing regulations.
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Federal loan programs do not support the mixed-use, multi-family development essential to these communities.
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Development is not meeting the demand for walkable neighborhoods.
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Growing numbers of young and old Americans prefer to live in communities where they can walk to stores, school, services, parks and public transportation. But federal housing rules make it difficult to meet this demand.
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