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The 411: Home Affordability for Low-Income Residents
Found on: http://www.newtowncdc.org/tempe-micro-estates/
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https://shelterforce.org/2018/06/26/cdcs-and-nonprofits-are-indeed-leading-affordable-housing-innovation/
Our goal for this project is to create a small-house neighborhood of affordable homes with convenient access to light rail and the future Tempe Streetcar, as well as other amenities, all within Newtown’s community land trust. We hope this project will become a replicable model for future infill development in other places throughout valley.
These homes are designed for maximum flexibility, allowing for affordable, high-quality housing for artists, healthcare, restaurant, and service workers who are on the low- to moderate-income scale. Targeting people who may work in Tempe but who otherwise cannot afford to purchase a home here. Our goal is to balance the pros and cons of traditional tiny-home developments with the current demand we’re seeing from our clients.
Homes will be lofted one-bedroom, one bath, 600-square feet with a full-size appliance kitchen. Each home will have a small private yard, and a small front porch that overlooks a community garden and grounds featuring lush, Sonoran desert-friendly landscape design. All owners will share a large common house that includes the laundry facility with a laundry-to-landscape greywater system, a community kitchen, rainwater harvesting cistern, and more.
After our agreement is signed with the City of Tempe, our first steps will be to engage with neighbors and other community members in the Jen Tilly Terrace neighborhood, and beyond.
Shelterforce Article:
We’ve set expensive and exclusionary requirements for housing such as one unit per lot, minimum building sizes, and occupancy limits. But higher minimum requirements means fewer houses and more rent increases, as developers get 40 percent fewer housing permits with every additional acre larger housing lots are required to be.
Facing these regulatory challenges head on, some groups have begun to build smaller in order to build more and reduce costs. Because smaller homes mean fewer materials, less labor, and more density, Newton Community Development Corporation in Arizona plans to build Tempe MicroEstates, a “small-house” neighborhood of permanently affordable 1 bedroom, 1 bath homes on its community land trust land for people earning low to moderate incomes. While one can build more tiny houses on a single plot of land, they cannot take advantage of vertical space. In London, the nonprofit YMCA has addressed this through development of its Y:Cube: small, stackable, 280-square foot units that can be built off-site for $50,000 per unit. Given that land is often the highest cost in urban areas, the ability to build “up” allows operators to house people more cheaply.
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