More Neighbors A2 Explainers

• Affordable Housing Development

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Ann Arbor's Comprehensive Land Use Plan 

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• A2 for All: Ann Arbor's Comprehensive Land Use Plan 2050

• Comprehensive Plan Frequently Asked Questions (City Planning Department, March 27, 2025)

• Despite water and sewer challenges, Ann Arbor needs to grow, city admin says (MLive, June 6, 2025)

• Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor and Councilmember Jen Eyer ~ Comprehensive Land Use Plan (The Lucy Ann Lance Show, May 2025)

• Is it Time for Ann Arbor to End Exclusionary Zoning? (Newsletter, Council Member Lisa Disch, March 2025)

• Ann Arbor's Comprehensive Plan is Still Shaping Up--Here's What You Need to Know (Newsletter, Council Member Dharma Akmon, March 2025)

 

Additional Perspectives on Housing, Zoning, and Land Use

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• Missing Middle Housing

• How new apartments create opportunities for all (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 2024)

• Research Roundup: The Effect of Market-Rate Development on Neighborhood Rents (UCLA Lew Center for Regional Policy Studies, 2021)

• Strong Towns: What Vacancy Rates Tell You About a Housing Shortage (and What They Don't)

• Supply Skepticism Revisited (NYU Law and Economics Research Paper, 2023)

• The Racist History of Single Family Zoning

• New Construction Makes Homes More Affordable -- Even for Those Who Can't Afford the New Units

• Equitable Zoning Project Report (Prepared by Joining Forces for Affordable Housing, the advocacy program of Connections for the Homeless, Evanston, Illinois, 2024)

 

Ann Arbor organizations, podcasts, blogs and resources

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• Washtenaw Housing Alliance 

• Future Root

• Neighborhood Institute 

• The Climate/Housing/Transportation Connection presentation by Professor Jonathan Levine, part of the Ann Arbor Citizens Climate Lobby webinar: Housing and Transportation: What’s the Climate Connection? 

• Ann Arbor AF podcast :  Deeper Dive: The Master Plan + Zoning (Episode 20) (April 2021)

• Future Root youtube channel: Land Use to Land:Us

• Damn Arbor: Call to Action (April 2025),  Ann Arbor For the Many, Not the Few (June 2020)

• Subversive Liberator: Density is Fun! (March 2025), A Brief History of Zoning in Ann Arbor: Part I and Part II  (March 2025), Why Ann Arbor's Future Depends On a Good Plan (March 2025)

• How I stopped being an incidental NIMBY and started living my values (July 2022)

• Being Not Rich at UM student guide