Donate to PSC
When
you join or donate to Partnership for Sustainable Communities, you will
help us undertake the
following:
Help housing developers win entitlements at reasonable densities, reduce the delay and cost of the land use and design approval processes, and build public support by providing outreach tools, data, information, templates and advice on organizing supporters.
Conduct and disseminate research on:
- Work to make housing affordability a high priority in state and federal policy formulation around development and transportation--defining sustainability as being about more than green building and clustering development around transit, but also to include housing affordability as a key consideration.
- Educate localities about inclusionary zoning, streamlining of entitlement and design review processes, and other prohousing land use policies.
- Advocate for more state and federal incentives for prohousing local policies, such as linking availability of transit funding for local governments to steps to encourage affordable housing development.
- Inform
policymakers about ways to promote economic opportunity within
easy access of
affordable housing and to adopt policies that recognize the combined
cost of
housing and transit.
Help housing developers win entitlements at reasonable densities, reduce the delay and cost of the land use and design approval processes, and build public support by providing outreach tools, data, information, templates and advice on organizing supporters.
- Turn
environmental concerns from a negative to a positive for affordable
housing.
- Educate
local elected
officials, candidates, and land use staff about the benefits of
encouraging affordable
and mixed-income housing.
Conduct and disseminate research on:
- Obstacles
to
infill development and ways to over come them.
- Impact
on
housing affordability of restrictive land use and zoning policies
and
protracted political fights over community acceptance.
- Social,
economic, and environmental benefits of affordable housing
development and
rehab for communities.