Inclusionary housing in North Carolina: an exploratory case study of four North Carolina communities
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Schiepan, Joella Renee
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of City and Regional Planning
- Abstract
- Housing, especially affordable housing (AH), influences health outcomes on both an individual and on a community-wide level. AH is a crucial component of healthy communities; its availability ensures the continued ability to attract and retain businesses and the means to sustain employment growth. Therefore, a lack of AH can negatively influence the local economy and health. The ability to access AH is important on an individual level because it influences health in three important ways: The quality of a house can lead to individual health outcomes (i.e., asthma and lead poisoning); the location of a house can influence life-long opportunities (i.e., access to education, quality healthcare) and have other neighborhood level health effects; and the affordability of a house can influence opportunity costs (i.e., forcing individuals to make choices between spending money on housing and other needed items) and hinder a family's ability to pay for other necessities, such as nutritious food and healthcare. The affordability of housing is a key determinant of health. One strategy that attempts to alleviate the health-related issues of limited affordable housing (quality, location and affordability) is inclusionary zoning. Inclusionary zoning, also referred to as inclusionary housing (IH), requires that developers provide a percentage of units as affordable to low- and moderate-income households in new developments. IH requires that private developers provide much needed AH which will benefit the "working poor" in growing municipalities. The policy has been successfully implemented across the United States, including communities in California, Colorado, Virginia and Montgomery County, Maryland. Despite the success of IH policies in other growing states, few North Carolina municipalities have successfully incorporated IH as an approach to address their increasing needs for AH. The project's overall goal was to understand why some municipalities in North Carolina have created an inclusionary housing (IH) policy, while others have not. In-depth interviews with public officials, affordable housing advocates, and developers in a sampling of four North Carolina municipalities using or considering an IH policy will be utilized to answer the following research questions: 1. What is the economic, social, and political context in which affordable housing is articulated as a policy problem? 2. What economic, social, and political factors are associated with using inclusionary housing as the policy solution? Results from this project will inform affordable housing advocates, community leaders and policymakers about affordable housing policy development within North Carolina municipalities, including the policy of IH.
- Date of publication
- 2008
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- Advisor
- Rohe, William
- Degree
- Master of City and Regional Planning
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 2008
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- North Carolina, North Carolina, United States
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- 111 p.
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- Open access
- Date uploaded
- December 10, 2010
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