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San Francisco Inclusionary Housing Guidelines
Street Level Advisors led a year-long process to rewrite the…
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Public Life Evaluation
Street Level Advisors led a process for the John S.…
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Berkeley Affordable Housing Videos
The City of Berkeley and BART are working together to…
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Inclusionary Housing
Inclusionary Housing is an approach to building more economically integrated cities. Inclusionary programs require builders of new housing to include some units that are affordable to lower income residents.
We have worked with elected officials and housing departments to help design or implement inclusionary housing policies in more than a dozen American cities including San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Minneapolis, Honolulu and New York.
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San Francisco Inclusionary Housing Guidelines
Street Level Advisors led a year-long process to rewrite the policies and procedures for San Francisco’s 10 year old inclusionary housing program.
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Inclusionary Housing Calculator
This interactive tool was designed to help policymakers and advocates better understand the real estate economics related to inclusionary housing. The tool incorporates a complete real estate project pro forma but simplifies the inputs and…
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Inclusionary Housing Book
We wrote the go-to guide for communities considering the adoption of inclusionary housing policies. This book collects hard won lessons from real programs and summarizes a wealth of published research to help local communities make…
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Web Based Tools
Consultants are in the business of learning and sharing what we learn. In the past that meant writing reports. But, lets face it, people don’t read as much as they used to.
Today, we have to work harder to distill information and meet people where they are. And increasingly where they are is online.
Street Level has been pioneering the development of interactive online tools to engage policymakers in complex issues.
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Social Impact Dashboard
The Social Impact Dashboard provides a dynamic visualization of data collected through the HomeKeeper application. It enables near real time peer benchmarking of the social performance of affordable homeownership programs.
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HomeKeeper
HomeKeeper is a Salesforce.com application designed to help managers of affordable homeownership programs to track key program data and monitor the social impact of their programs.
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Understanding Subsidy Retention
We created this interactive tutorial on the economics of permanently affordable housing after trying to explain these concepts to small groups with static PowerPoint slides. We have found that this kind of dynamic visualization makes…
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Shared Equity Homeownership
Shared Equity Homeownership programs provide support to help lower income families to buy homes but they structure this help as an investment rather than a grant so that limited public resources can grow along with the need.
Street Level Principal Rick Jacobus secured a $5 million investment from the Social Innovation Fund to help bring this new idea to scale.
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A Path to Homeownership
We worked with the Center for American Progress to craft an ambitious proposal for a dramatically different federal approach to supporting access to homeownership for lower income families.
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The Asset Building Potential of Shared Equity Homeownership
Can lower income families build wealth in resale price restricted homes? This paper presents surprising findings from data collected by one mature program.
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Asset Building and Affordable Homeownership
This 15 minute video presentation looks more closely at local affordable homeownership programs from the point of view of asset building. Can affordable ownership programs be seen as asset building strategies? How do they compare…
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Commercial Revitalization
Neighborhood Commercial Revitalization programs help bring life back to distressed neighborhoods by supporting the growth of locally serving businesses districts.
We have helped community organizations across the country to craft strategies that enhance their neighborhood’s existing identity to attract new retail development.
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Economic Development and Health Toolkit
Economic Development for Public Health Advocates Now Online at ChangeLab Solutions Download PDF File This toolkit developed for the Public Health Institute’s Land Use and Health Program is designed to provide an overview of Economic…
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Brookings: Retail Trade as a Path to Neighborhood Revitalization
Does retail development lead to residential change or the other way around? In this chapter we evaluate data on changing neighborhoods which suggests that retail revitalization can actually help prevent gentrification.
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Commercial Revitalization Planning Guide
This hands on guidebook is filled with detailed direction that will provide practitioners with a starting point for organizing comprehensive commercial district revitalization efforts.