Growth Management and Affordable Housing Do They Conflict?

Many local communities are adopting various forms of growth management or smart growth in response to growth-related problems, such as rising traffic congestion and loss of open space. But at the same time these new policies are shrinking the supply of affordable housing. Can this inherent conflict between growth management and the need for more affordable housing be resolved? This book explores in depth these issues and seeks to provide some answers to one of the nation's growing dilemmas. Book jacket.

Anthony Downs is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. His specialties are housing, real estate, real estate finance, metropolitan planning, demographics, and transportation