Impact Fees and Housing Affordability

Session: Impact Fees and Housing Affordability

April 1, 10:15 AM

Clancy Mullen, AICP
Duncan Associates

Other papers from this session: Impact of Impact Fees

Abstract

Developers frequently don the mantle of advocates for the poor and first-time homebuyers when impact fees are under consideration. Yet little is understood about the effects of impact fees on housing affordability. This paper examines two principal ways to mitigate the effects of impact fees on housing affordability.

Impact Fees and Housing Affordability

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Clancy Mullen, AICP
Duncan Associates
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