Housing Affordability: Is Smart Growth The Problem, Or The Solution?

David Goldberg examines whether smart growth become an anti-growth tool to ban multi-family housing construction.

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September 5, 2002, 7:00 AM PDT

Does smart growth provide a means to encourage the development of affordable communities? Or has it become an anti-growth tool to ban multi-family housing construction? ... Part of the problem is that smart-growth proponents have been victimized by no-growthers who have misappropriated their critique of sprawl to oppose just about every kind of development."

Thanks to Chris Steins

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Thursday, September 5, 2002 in Planetizen

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