Infill development and affordable housing: patterns from 1996 to 2000

Authors :: Steinacker, Annette
Source :: Urban Affairs Review. March, 2003, Vol. 38 Issue 4, p492, 18 p.
Publication Year :: 2003
Abstract: The amount of residential development in cities has been much greater than the media coverage of suburban sprawl suggests. Unfortunately, there is also some evidence that cities with higher levels of infill development have more expensive new housing construction than their suburbs. The average price differential is not substantial, but it does suggest that tensions between achieving the two goals of greater infill development and more affordable city housing do exist. Keywords: infill; affordable housing; city-suburb relationships