Relevant Publications

The following is a brief and admittedly partial list of publications that address the issues surrounding regulatory barriers to affordable housing. Because the first section is comprised of HUD publications (which are in the public domain), we are able to provide links to the full-text versions of the documents. In many cases, these publications are also available in printed form from HUD USER for a nominal charge by calling 1-800-245-2691, or you may order online by following this link to the HUD USER online store. Just be sure to have the full title ready when placing your order.

The third list, under the heading Bibliographic Database, includes titles, abstracts, and publishers' citations for publications that may also be of interest, but which are not published by HUD. As a result, we're unable to provide the full-text versions. Nonetheless, the citations will help you secure the publications from the respective publishers.

Please check back from time to time, as this list will be revised, as our publications database continues to grow.

HUD Publications

These publications are available as free downloads (in *.pdf format) from the HUD User website, or in printed form for a nominal charge by calling 1.800.245.2691.

Click on the appropriate link(s) to review.

• Affordable Housing Design Advisor
  
  
• Barriers to Rehabilitation of Affordable Housing: Volume 1 Findings and Analysis and Volume 2 Case Studies
  
  
• Best Practices for Effecting the Rehabilitation of Affordable Housing
  Volume 1: Framework and Findings
  Volume 2: Technical Analyses and Case Studies
  
  
• A Builder's Guide to Marketable, Affordable, and Durable Entry-level Homes (MADE) To Last
  
  
• A Community Guide to Factory-Built Housing
  
  
• Electronic Permitting Systems and How to Implement Them
  
  
• Eliminating Barriers to the Use of HUD-Code Housing in Attached Construction
  
  
• Factory and Site-Built Housing: A Comparative Analysis
  
  
• Getting Building Technology Accepted: Developing and Deploying New Building Technologies
  
  
• Guideline on Fire Ratings of Archaic Materials and Assemblies
  
  
• Guide to More Effective and Efficient Building Regulatory Processes Through Information Technology
  
  
• Homes for Everyone: Universal Design Principles in Practice
  
  
• Home Builders' Guide to Manufactured Housing
  
  
• HUD's guide to creating a task force
  
  
• Impact Fees and Housing Affordability: a Guidebook for Practitioners
  
  
• Innovative Rehabilitation Provisions: A Demonstration of the Nationally Applicable Recommended Rehabilitation Provisions
  
  
• Making Housing Affordable: Breaking Down Regulatory Barriers - A Self-Assessment Guide for States
  
  
• National Survey of Rehabilitation Enforcement Practices
  
  
• Nationally Applicable Recommended Rehabilitation Provisions
  
  
• "Not In My Back Yard": Removing Barriers to Affordable Housing
  
  
• Residential Remodeling and Universal Design
  
  
• A Review of Regulatory Barriers to Employer Ability to Recruit and Retain Employees
  
  
• Smart Codes in Your Community: A Guide to Building Rehabilitation Codes
  
  
• The Status of Regulations for Housing Rehabilitation
  
  
• Study of Subdivision Requirements as a Regulatory Barrier
  
  
• Why Not In Our Community? - Removing Barriers to Affordable Housing
  
  

HUD Publications Currently
Available as Abstracts & in Photocopy Form

While most of the publications in this section are currently out of print, some are available for free downloading in PDF file format, while others can be secured in photocopy form for a nominal charge by calling 1.800.245.2691. We are in the process of scanning some of these publications, starting with the most relevant and in-demand first.

• Affordable Housing 
  
  
• Affordable Housing: A Selected Resource Guide
  
  
• Affordable Housing: Challenge and Response-Volume II: Affordable Residential Construction: A guide for Home Builders
  
  
• Affordable Housing Development Guidelines for State and Local Government
  
  
• Affordable Housing: How Local Regulatory Improvements Can Help
  
  
• Affordable Housing: What States Can Do
  
  
• Affordable Infill Housing: Five Case Studies, Albany, New York; Burlington, Vermont; Louisville, Kentucky; Orange, New Jersey; Springfield, Massachusetts
  
  
• Allowing Accessory Apartments: Key Issues for Local Officials
  
  
• Granny Flats: An Assessment of Economic and Land Use Issues
  
  
• Infill Development Strategies
  
  
• Innovative Rehabilitation Provisions: A Demonstration of the National Applicable Recommended Rehabilitation Provisions
  
  
• Planning for Affordable Single-Family Housing
  
  
• Proposed Model Land Development Standards and Accompanying Model State Enabling Legislation: 1993 Edition
  
  
• Reforming Local Development Regulations: Approaches in Five Cities
  
  
• Removing Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing: How States and Localities Are Moving Ahead
  
  
• State Role in Affordable Housing: A Bibliography
  
  
• Streamlining Local Regulations: A Handbook for Reducing Housing and Development Costs
  
  
• The Status of Building Regulations for Housing Rehabilitation: A National Symposium
  
  

Bibliographic Database

The following documents have been provided by other, non-governmental publishers of housing research, and as such, are subject to copyright restrictions. We have provided abstracts of these publications for your review, along with citations that will help you secure the document(s) from the respective publishers.

• Accessory Apartments: A New Housing Option for the Elderly Homeowner
  
  
• Accessory Apartments in Single-Family Housing
  
  
• Accessory Apartments: The State of the Art. Continually Updated Access to Experience
  
  
• Accessory Apartments: Using Surplus Space in Single-Family Houses
  
  
• Accessory Dwelling Units: Model State Act and Local Ordinance
  
  
• Affordable Housing and Infrastructure: The State Role
  
  
• A Glossary of Zoning, Development, and Planning Terms
  
  
• Analyzing Impact of Regulatory Barriers in Residential Construction
  
  
• Changing Development Standards for Affordable Housing
  
  
• Developing Infill Housing
  
  
• Getting Home: Overcoming Barriers to Housing in Greater Boston
  
  
• Identifying and Mitigating Local Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing in Waukesha County, Wisconsin
  
  
• Improving Building Regulations for Rehabilitation
  
  
• Infill Housing: Opportunities and Strategies for Inner-City Neighborhoods
  
  
• Influence of Zoning Regulations on Land and Housing Prices
  
  
• Model Land Development Code. Complete Text
  
  
• New Jersey Revs Up Its Rehabs
  
  
• Small Solutions: Second Units as Affordable Housing
  
  
• Small Solutions: Second Units as Affordable Housing - Executive Summary
  
  
• State Actions for Affordable Housing
  
  
• The Effect of Zoning on Housing Construction
  
  
• The Zoning Process: Exclusionary Zoning, Initiatives and Referenda, Design Review, and Other Recent Developments in Law
  
  
• Urban Infill Housing: Myth and Fact
  
  
• Zoning and Historic Preservation: A Survey of Current Zoning Techniques in U.S. Cities To Encourage Historic Preservation

The documents listed in the RBC Bibliographic Database have been drawn from the much larger HUD USER Bibliographic Database. Publications have been selected based on their relevance to regulatory concerns surrounding affordable housing. For a much broader subject matter search, you may wish to visit the HUD USER Bibliographic Database, which resides on www.huduser.org, the parent site of HUD's Regulatory Barriers Clearinghouse. Some of the suggested keywords for a thorough search are: Regulatory Barriers, Joint Venture for Affordable Housing, Accessory Apartments, Zoning, Zoning Regulations, Granny Flats, Building Codes, Rehabilitation, Land Development, Land Development Standards, Impact Fees.