Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

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US: Affordable Housing & Tod Assessing Parking Lots as Stimulus

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the United States Supreme Court have both recently verified that race-based, and by proxy class-based, segregation is not only unacceptable but must be actively dismantled. Cities must identify strategies to integrate their neighborhoods, and for good reason: recent studies have demonstrated the overwhelming positive benefits moving to high opportunity areas, places with good schools, lots of jobs and low crime, have on poor children and children of color. The lack of affordable housing has reached crisis levels in America, exacerbating racial and socioeconomic segregation and their social and economic externalities. Many Americans are prevented from finding homes in the type of healthy, integrated neighborhoods that lead to positive life outcomes for their children. In line with its world-class aspirations, Dallas should strive to be proactive in the fight for racial and economic integration, affordability, and access to opportunity for its middle class and working poor citizens. Affordable Housing and TOD: Assessing Parking Lots as Stimulus To Affordable Housing Development at DART Rail Stations demonstrates how publicly-owned land at DART Rail stations can be utilized as a low-cost asset for affordable housing development that will improve the quality of life for the middle class and working poor, strengthen the transit system, and help neighborhood revitalization with smarter land-use and development patterns.

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