This paper provides an overview of the experience with IZ in US and Canada, and identifies and examines six key lessons that can be learned from that experience.
This paper draws on the evidence coming out of the US to provide an overview of inclusionary zoning and the key ingredients needed to ensure its success in Ontario.
This paper examines inclusionary zoning and related inclusionary housing policies as practised in the four countries: the US, England, Canada and Australia. In addition to a detailed review of those practices, it provides an overview highlighting their main similarities and differences, and also summarizes some of the key lessons for Canada that can be drawn from this experience.
This guide examines the main features of inclusionary housing that should be addressed, together with the main principles and key practices that should be followed, to implement a productive program. The material draws to a large extent upon the best practices widely used across the US in their inclusionary zoning programs. The guide was prepared through funding provided by the Catherine Donnelly Foundation.
The report provides a comprehensive description of the inclusionary housing programs as used in the US. It describes what these programs are, and how they compare with social housing programs seen to date in Canada. It identifies and examines their key features, including housing set-asides, income targets, subject developments, compliance alternatives, cost offsets and affordability controls. It concludes by outlining the main lessons that can be learned from the US experience and applied in Canada.
This report reviews the basics and economics of inclusionary zoning, looks at the inclusionary practices in Vancouver and Montreal, and examines the legal and practical issues of adapting inclusionary zoning in Toronto.
This paper examines and compares the inclusionary policies of Vancouver and San Francisco.
This paper examines the legal and practical considerations affecting the implementation of inclusionary policies in Ontario, and offers various recommendations for dealing with them. Included is an assessment of the economic feasibility, and a review of the relevant planning law.
This report examines the affordable housing mandates that have been used by upper-tier jurisdictions in the US and Canada to oblige their constituent municipalities to provide for affordable housing. It focuses principally on the demanding and precedent-setting mandates in New Jersey, California, and Massachusetts. It also looks at the comparable but weaker mandates in British Columbia, Ontario, Connecticut, and the Portland and Minneapolis/St Paul metropolitan areas.
Under the best of these mandates, municipalities are obliged to use their planning regulations and the development approval process to support the provision of affordable housing in affirmative and effective ways that go well beyond the “good planning” practices seen in Canada.
