Richard Drdla Associates:  Affordable Housing Mandates: Regulatory Measures used by States, Provinces and Metropolitan Areas to Support Affordable Housing; CMHC, August 2001.

This report examines the affordable housing mandates that have been used in the US and Canada to oblige  municipalities to provide for affordable housing.  It focuses mainly on the demanding mandates in New Jersey, California, and Massachusetts, but also looks at others in British Columbia, Ontario and elsewhere.  Under the best of these mandates, municipalities are obliged to use the planning regulations and development approval process to provide for affordable housing in affirmative and effective ways going well beyond the  “good planning” practices seen in Canada.  Read the Report.