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Creating a Housing Ecosystem
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Creating a Housing Ecosystem or You CAN Have Your Cake and Eat it - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Creating a Housing Ecosystem or You CAN Have Your Cake and Eat it - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Creating a Housing Ecosystem or You CAN Have Your Cake and Eat it Too! City of Buda, Texas American Planning Association Texas Chapter Its a Buda-ful Life Nosebleed-inducing growth: 125% from 2010 to today (16,428) Young &
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It’s a Buda-ful Life
- Nosebleed-inducing growth: 125% from 2010 to today (16,428)
- Young & Well-Educated
- Rapidly rising home values
- Rapidly rising rents
- Wealthy
- High permit volumes
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…But Are There Storms on the Horizon?
- 51.9% increase in HaysCAD
appraised values over 7 years
- 1 Bedroom Apartments: $930 –
$1,376
– Doesn’t include utilities – $1.50+ per SF per Month
- Growing potential for displacement
- Growing concern about housing
- ptions emerging in economic
development
- Dissatisfaction with conventional
garden apartments (city government & residents of apartments)
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Actual Homes Sales Prices
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National Trends, Coming to a City Near You
68%
Of US housing stock is single-family detached homes
83%
Of households in the US will have no children by 2030
63%
Of households in the US will be 1-person households by 2030
2,467
Square feet… the median size of a new single-family house in 2016 Source: Regarded researcher Arthur Nelson’s book Reshaping Metropolitan America
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The Market Infallible?
- All of the plans on the shelf, but why aren’t we getting what we
want?
– Specialization – Scale – Complexity
- Economy of Scale = Return on Investment Brain Damage
They’re building and people are buying… but are they actually getting what they want? What happens when life changes and what they bought doesn’t suit their needs? What do people want?
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Grim Reality: Nobody is Coming to Save You
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Have We Forgotten How to Build Housing?
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What Do These Buildings Have in Common?
Wait… WUT?!?
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Yes, They are All “1-4 Unit Residential” in the Eyes of FHA!
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The Big Idea…
- You can do amazing things with a conventional mortgage & a bank that
knows how to read underwriting requirements
– Income potential of rent can credit to the owner in qualifying – … almost anyone in your city can be part of the solution – … maybe even revitalize your downtown while you’re at it?
- Small & incremental development can provide critical housing needs that
help current owners stay in neighborhood, provide affordable rental housing AND check the box in your Comprehensive Plan to preserve small- town character!
- You just need to create the ecosystem to make it possible!
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The Big Question…
- Who do you want to live in your town 5, 10 or 30 years from now?
- Is the value of what is being built enough to cover maintenance costs in the
future?
- As a city official, you can’t MAKE people come to town or build housing. You CAN
create a regulatory ecosystem that makes it easier to attract people that will… or inspire the people you already have to step up to the plate.
- You specifically don’t have to like the housing… you just have to like that people
who might commit to your community like it.
- Housing decisions, including zoning decisions, can impact your city years &
decades down the road… THINK LONG-TERM
- Small & incremental infill development maximizes your existing infrastructure,
helping the City’s bottom line AND providing housing opportunities
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Value Proposition for Community Give?
Ecosystem Supporting Small Developers
Particularly Banks, Investors, Municipal Rules
Get?
Robust, Anti-Fragile Tax Base
High Value Per Acre Development Pattern Owned by Locals
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Whooooaaaa there… settle down!
Not ready to drop 4-plexes into the middle of your neighborhoods? NEITHER WERE WE!
- R-1 & R-2: traditional single-family
– R-1 allows ADUs by-right, allowed by specific use permit in R-2 thru R-5
- R-3 zoning: 1-2 family dwellings
– Traditional single-family, townhouses, duplexes – Basically, all of the things treated as ‘residential’ by building code
- R-4 zoning: transitional… townhouse all the way to 4-plex
- Form-Based Codes to create centers of activity and small-town
compatible density
– ADUs by-right, wide variety of housing types allowed by-right – Applied in downtown area and two other parts of the city; designed to be added elsewhere in future
Accessory Dwelling Units… your gateway drug!
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That’s Nice… so what’s happening in Buda?
- New development codes adopted Fall 2017
- Now getting applications from “Average Jane’s and Average
Joe’s” to build ADUs
- Now getting applications to resubdivide properties so empty-
nest owner can downsize into a smaller house and sell/rent the bigger house
- Plans filed for Buda’s first townhome project
- An ecosystem is in place and ready for investment
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Takeaways
- You CAN grow AND maintain character
- You CAN create a regulatory ecosystem that encourages the
market to provide what you are looking for
- You DON’T have to wait for a savior to come to town…
someone is ALREADY THERE
- ANYBODY can be part of the housing solution in your
community
- AND YOU CAN CREATE STRONGER NEIGHBORHOODS AND A
STRONGER FINANCIAL POSITION FOR THE CITY
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Resources With Good Ideas for Every Persuasion
- American Planning Association -
Texas
– Txplanning.org
- American Planning Association
– Planning.org
- Incremental Development Alliance
– Incrementaldevelopment.org
- Strongtowns
– Strongtowns.org
- Congress for the New Urbanism
– CNU.org
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