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Top 10 Ivory Innovations Finalists for the 2023 Housing Affordability Prize

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The prize awards organizations that demonstrate ambitious, feasible, and scalable solutions to the housing affordability crisis. The 2023 Ivory Prize Winners will be announced on May 24, 2023, at PCBC in Anaheim, California. zoning codes through a first-of-its-kind user-friendly online resource.

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Passive House is “In” in 2017

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New York City Zone Green thick wall exclusion allows for up to 8 inches of wall thickness to be exempted from the calculation of floor area to encourage high performance buildings without decreasing the amount of usable space in the building, including Passive construction. Information is available from events@psssivehousecal.org.

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Top 25 Finalists for Ivory Innovations' Housing Affordability Prize

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California Dream for All Shared Appreciation Loan Program | California, USA The California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA) uses financing programs that have helped more than 213,000 low- and moderate-income Californians achieve the dream of homeownership and created/preserved 73,000 affordable rental units. Category Innovators

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How to Design for the Build-for-Rent Market

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To shed light on an optimal BFR design strategy, architecture and design firm BSB Design spoke with experts in Arizona, California, Florida, and Texas, four of the more active BFR markets. But in the build-to-rent space, it’s not economical or feasible to design a new product every time you go to a new market,” Krob says.

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Cracking the code of affordable housing

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Washington, DC, offers an inclusionary zoning program that allows residential developers to build more units than would normally be permitted as long as eight to 10% of those units are affordable.

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Protecting sensitive sites: Noise and vibration rules

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These include the City of New York, the State of California, and the City of Toronto. State of California The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) defines noise as a part of the environment. Photo joeygil/courtesy bigstockphoto.com California Environmental Quality Act ( CEQA ) 1970. Other projects are exempt.

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FEATURE STORY: Thailand — Nuanced Nation, One-Stop Shop

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Projects with investments exceeding $17 million USD must submit a feasibility study to gain approval. The BOI has divided Thailand into three zones each with a different incentive package to accelerate development in disadvantaged regions. Thailand also offers the second lowest corporate income tax rate, behind Singapore, in Asia.