TOD Archives

Reconnecting Communities with Affordable Housing

How can affordable housing be integrated into improved neighborhoods as cities tear down or retrofit urban highways?

6 min read

Throughout the mid-20th century, transportation authorities constructed massive infrastructure projects through urban centers, particularly, but not exclusively, highways.

Large-Scale Effort to Convert Commercial to Residential Gets New Initiative     

Conversions Gain Federal and Local Support

6 min read

Office vacancies throughout the nation have reached a 30-year high and the country is amid an affordable housing crisis. These dual inflection points have increased housing advocates’ focus on conversions of commercial real estate into housing and encouraged federal and local governments to assist in the transformations.

Case Study

The Westcott in Swampscott

Mixed Financing Underlies a Building for Everyone

7 min read

It would be nice if affordable multifamily housing could be financed all in one shot, but it never is.

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Making TOD a Reality through TIFIA

3 min read

Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) has long been touted as an urban planner’s dream with reduced car dependence via housing located near public transit.