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Title	Housing Toolkit Tools and Strategies
Highlights	This toolkit states that lengthy approval processes can increase the development costs of housing.   This toolkit contains descriptions and examples for implementing expedited review processes to decrease housing costs.                       This toolkit states that rigid building codes can discourage the rehabilitation of properties for affordable housing purposes.   This toolkit contains examples of building codes that encourage the rehabilitation of properties for affordable housing purposes.                       This toolkit states that impact fees can discourage affordable housing development.   This toolkit presents impact fee waivers as a strategy to encourage affordable housing development.                       This toolkit states that zoning policies can discourage affordable housing development.   This toolkit contains strategies such as accessory dwelling units, inclusionary zoning, higher density requirements, and density bonuses to encourage affordable housing development.
Description	This toolkit prepared by the Delaware State Housing Authority contains a number of strategies that local governments can implement to increase their affordable housing supply. The toolkit contains a number of planning and zoning tools including accessory dwelling units, inclusionary zoning, higher density requirements, rehab building codes, and developer incentives such as density bonuses, expedited review processes, and impact fee waivers. Tools such as community land trusts and shared equity homeownership programs are recommended for maintaining long-term affordability of housing. The toolkit provides descriptions, implementation procedures, and existing examples for each of the strategies.
Publication Date	2008
Organization	Delaware State Housing Authority
Web Location	http://www.destatehousing.com/services/servicesmedia/tb_toolkit_full.pdf

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