Community Architect

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Missing Guardrails and Signposts There has been a lot of talk about the missing guardrails that would keep government in check and democracy intact. The last time climate change and "woke" policies appeared in the crosshairs of the federal administration, local and state governments doubled down on implementing these policies.

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Santa Cruz Architect

JULY 16, 2023

The State of California has a recognized housing shortage, with the result that both Sacramento and local municipalities throughout California have made myriad recent changes to the regulations governing ADUs. Internal access to a bathroom.

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Santa Cruz Architect

MARCH 19, 2024

However, local governments retain the authority to impose objective design standards and limitations as long as they align with the state law’s requirements. Qualifying urban properties in single-family zones can leverage SB-9 to add a second unit, facilitating multigenerational living arrangements or rental opportunities.

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BD+C

DECEMBER 14, 2023

At district levels, we’re seeing zoning incentives that allow greater density or parking exemptions for developments that take significant affordability and sustainability measures, which can really help a project’s bottom line. The results thus far are mixed.

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Deezen

APRIL 3, 2024

Since the early 2000s, a number of South African cities have been designated Urban Development Zones (UDZ), encouraging private developers to take on inner-city renewal and refurbishment projects through tax incentives. The policy has increasingly seen low-cost housing delivered outside of traditional government grant programmes.

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Community Architect

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Hard to know if the woods surrounding the metropolis are preserved by this traditional respect, by zoning or the forbidding grades, likely a combination of all. Hong Kong’s approach to Value Capture involves the government’s active role in land acquisition and development. Tree felling is a fung shui taboo.

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Dwell

APRIL 15, 2022

But the most important measure we’ve been working on is a revamp of the citywide zoning code, which has been basically untouched since the 1980s. And while all this is going on, prices here just keep going up. That’s what I mean when I say the status quo just doesn’t hold water.

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Community Architect Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2023

"The full weight of city government is ready to make this a reality. The bills are intended to create the zoning necessary to permit the proposed size of the project which cannot be built with the existing Urban Renewal Plan and current zoning in place. This gives everyone a chance to mull this over.

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Community Architect Daily

MARCH 19, 2024

Obviously, the intersection of these two zones has a pull in both directions. In all cases money from the Future Fund seeded the project and all types of other funds and tax credits are used to finance the usually very high cost of building stabilization and repair to save the buildings and the users that have found a home in them.

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Community Architect

MARCH 8, 2024

A train without development: Failing mall next to a transit station (Photo: Philipsen) With zoning squarely in the hands of local council representatives, NIMBY pressure is always on them to keep new housing in existing communities at bay, especially denser multifamily housing that could bring "those people" to their neighborhood.

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Community Architect

MAY 23, 2022

San Diego's downtown housing, inclusionary zoning with a density bonus program , and a 10 year homeless strategy present a creative and broad arsenal of solutions, but they have not made a noticeable difference or tamed the run away housing cost yet. There is no great nation that wasn't thriving on the shoulders of a great city.

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Habitus Living

AUGUST 2, 2022

A BillionBricks home is the world’s first self-financing home, that combines housing and solar energy into a single investible financial solution. The community produces surplus solar energy, which is then sold through Power Purchase Agreements, providing an essential guarantee to raise financing for the project.

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Bustler

MAY 30, 2022

Wenke, President and Chief Operating Officer, Taconic Partners Gigi Li, Vice President in Government & Community Affairs, NYC Economic Development Corporation Moderator: Jason Ivaliotis, AIA, Associate, Woods Bagot Introductions: Andrea Lamberti, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, NCARB, 2022 President, AIANY; Partner, Rafael Viñoly.

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misfits' architecture

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The inhibiting factor is securing finance, not land. This radio-silent zone is remote but at only 315 km north-east from the town of Geraldton, not as remote as youd think. The entrance to the new hotel is still the entrance to the group of former state government buildings known as the Lands, Titles and Treasury buildings.

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Architecture Here and There

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

For example, the Providence Preservation Society and its revolving fund helped finance many rescues of old buildings facing demolition in downtown. The extensive cost of governments’ ignoring the science, and suppressing voices that promoted more sensible strategies, should not be borne by citizens.

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Community Architect

AUGUST 28, 2020

Naturally, work isn't totally binary: There are grey zones in between the virtual and the physical blocks of work which combine physical and virtual, such as tele-medicine, remote teaching and remote conferencing that will not entirely eliminate the need for the physical spaces but reduce the frequency in which they are used.

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Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

Governments ignore that at their peril.”. This elegant complex includes rehearsal spaces and public zones in addition to a central performance area, celebrating the sense in which theatre is a community. As architects, we’ve got so much to offer. Cécile Brisac.

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e-architect

JANUARY 25, 2022

Supported by the Scottish Government, the Award recognises the contribution housing makes to social and cultural conversations and rewards innovation. The Scottish Government has agreed that Fife College can progress to the next stage of its project to deliver the first net zero tertiary education building in Scotland. 24 Nov 2021.

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Raj Patel

MAY 20, 2021

The Indian government has done all kinds of things in the name of modernisation. When Shashank Yadav took to Twitter to plead for oxygen to save his dying grandfather last month , the Indian government swept into action. The Indian government can’t lock up every journalist, no matter how much they’d like to. Witness, progress.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The Federal Housing Administration has announced expanded financing options for "granny flats" that are meant to make a dent in the affordable housing crisis. But this week, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced new policies that expand mortgage financing options for dwellings that have, or will include, an ADU.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 24, 2017

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Raj Patel

JUNE 23, 2024

Not only do states need to somehow find more money to service the debt they’ve already acquired, but the price of borrowing to pay to rebuild after man-made and natural destruction forces governments into an impossible choice: fund social programs today, or repay existing loans so that you can afford to invest tomorrow.

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Community Architect

JUNE 12, 2024

The magic of a software that knows all America's zoning, building and historic codes on the push of a button turned out to be too good to be true. Obviously, in a time of high interest and skyrocketing construction costs, the undertaking represents a large strain on the finances. Too large, too heavy and not sustainable.

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Raj Patel

MAY 4, 2021

When the Philippines was a US colony between 1898 and 1946, Filipino workers were exempted from the “Asiatic barred zone”’ to work in the US sugar plantations in Hawaii , replacing more militant Japanese labourers. In the process, cotton laid the basis of finance, police and government that made the United States.

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Deezen

JUNE 27, 2022

The former president believes that some of the problems found in Chicago and other major cities in the US are the result of government policy and zoning decisions. He added that to solve the issues, local and federal laws needed to be geared toward financing affordable, energy-sustainable mixed-use and mixed-income communities.

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Dwell

AUGUST 20, 2024

The "red tape" plan includes several components, each tackling challenges in financing, construction, environmental effects, preservation, and more, many spanning different federal agencies. This is the second round of this grant, which in June this year awarded its first $85 million to 21 communities. Some Good News?

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