toolbox series

Creating Housing Choices to Promote Lifelong Communities

Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011
Registration: 8 a.m.
Program: 8:30–10:30 a.m.

In order to achieve sustainable, lifelong communities, housing stock must include a wide range of options that are spatially distributed across the area. This workshop will provide tips and tools to help local government professionals and other stakeholders identify the form and substance of housing market changes and how they apply to the development of better planning strategies.

Participants will explore the demand for and supply of housing throughout the metropolitan area, based on the recently released American Community Survey data. Learn to segment the larger housing market into a set of discrete submarkets by tenure, price, income categories and location in order to analyze housing market conditions in communities throughout the area.

Presenter:

Kirk McClure is a professor with the Department of Urban Planning at the University of Kansas where he teaches and conducts research in the areas of affordable housing, economic development and real estate development. McClure’s research evaluates the workings of the nation’s housing assistance programs — including programs for low-income renters and homebuyers — and the behavior of the nation’s housing markets.

McClure consults for communities and neighborhood-based organizations on the feasibility of various development strategies and projects. His research has been sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Fannie Mae Foundation and the Lincoln Land Institute.

Registration:

Upcoming Sessions in the Toolbox Series:

Sept. 6 — International Energy Conservation Code
Sept. 21 — Community Design for Health

Questions?

Contact Georgia Nesselrode, director of the Government Training Institute, at 816/701-8207.