Affordable Infill Housing: Five Case Studies, Albany, New York; Burlington, Vermont; Louisville, Kentucky; Orange, New Jersey; Springfield, Massachusetts.
Publication Date:
07/1987
Sponsoring Organization(s):
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Washington, DC
Performing Organization(s):
National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) National Research Center Upper Marlboro, MD
Availability:
HUD USER, P.O. Box 23268, Washington, DC 20026-3268; phone (800) 245-2691; fax (202) 708-9981; or TDD (800) 927-7589
Notes:
See also other Joint Venture case studies, accession number 0003235--0003237; 0003598; 0003915; 0003949--0003951; 0003960; 4431--4434; 4746--4747.
This volume describes HUD's Joint Venture for Affordable Housing and describes its use for infill housing in five locations: Albany, N.Y.; Burlington, Vt.; Louisville, Ky.; Orange, NJ.; and Springfield, Mass. The project focused on reducing the cost of new housing, based on close cooperation between builders and local regulatory officials to identify ways to cut costs and to modify or interpret building codes and site regulations to achieve these cuts. Infill housing consisted of the development of vacant or underused lots in existing developments. These sites posed a unique set of problems, such as odd lot configurations, subterranean hindrances such as buried foundations, limited records of utility locations, and existence of dilapidated structures ready for demolition. The varied conditions at the five sites resulted in housing construction methods using either site-built or factory-built housing. One site had both site and factory-built housing. Descriptions of each project offer practical solutions for builders and local government officials interested in providing affordable infill housing.
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