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Title A guide to impact fees and housing affordability / by Arthur C. Nelson [and others] ; with contributions by Greg Burge [and others]
Published Washington, DC : Island Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 294 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Impact fees-past, present, and future -- Basic elements of impact fees -- Legal foundations -- Impact fees in relation to housing prices and affordable housing supply -- The relationship among impact fees, planning, and exactions -- Equity and proportionate-share principles applied to impact fees -- Capital facility and infrastructure financing options -- The role of the state -- Designing impact fees to address housing affordability -- Case studies of proportionate-share residential impact fees -- Affordable housing impact fee relief programs -- Expanding the base to advance housing affordability -- Impact fees and housing affordability in the next generation
Summary "A Guide to Impact Fees and Housing Affordability demonstrates for practitioners exactly how a fair impact-fee program can be designed and implemented. In addition, it includes information on the history of impact fees and discusses alternatives to them, summarizes state legislation that can influence the design of local fee programs, and provides case studies with useful illustrations of successful programs."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index
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Subject Impact fees -- United States
Housing -- Finance -- Government policy -- United States
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Taxation.
Housing -- Finance -- Government policy
Impact fees
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Nelson, Arthur C
ISBN 9781610910842
1610910842