Municipal Financing
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Making Missing Middle Pencil: The Math Behind Small-Scale Housing Development (2024)
A Terner Center report exploring barriers to financial feasibility of missing middle housing projects.

Small-Scale, Multi-Unit Housing: Toolkit for Local Governments (2024)
Toolkit intended to help local governments and their community members understand the legislative changes introduced related to SSMUH

Guidance Paper: Gentle Density & Land Economics
Expert roundtable discussion of tenure options, leveling the cost playing field and reducing risk, and building in affordability

Costs of Providing Infrastructure and Services to Different Residential Densities (2023)
A Metro Vancouver study that investigates the cost of providing infrastructure and services to neighbourhoods with varying residential densities, with the…

Missing Middle Solutions Lab (2021)
This report from CMHC & Keesmaat Group looks to address some of the main land use policy, project financing and design…

Opening Doors: Unlocking Housing Supply for Affordability (2021)
Opening Doors is the final report from the B.C. – Canada Expert Panel on the Future of Housing Supply and Affordability,…

Affordable Housing Task Force (2021)
The Town of Collingwood details actions that can be pursued at the municipal level to advance affordable housing from the perspective…

Unlocking the Potential of Missing Middle Housing (2022)
The UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation highlights barriers faced by developers working in states that have enabled multiple units…