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We support a strong America full of strong cities, towns, and neighborhoods.

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.

 

Learn From Other Housing-Ready Cities

We're building a map of Housing-Ready Cities across the continent. To be one of the first cities on the map, answer the questions above.

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New to the housing conversation?

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Download “The Housing-Ready City: A Toolkit for Local Code Reform”

 
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