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Transportation and Housing Connections In Baltimore presented at the MAHRA Conference

Transportation and Housing Connections In Baltimore presented at the MAHRA Conference Panel: Strategies for Connecting Transportation and Affordable Housing May 21, 2014. Tamara Woods, City of Baltimore Department of Planning. Baltimore Income. Income Distribution in 2010.

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Transportation and Housing Connections In Baltimore presented at the MAHRA Conference

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  1. Transportation and Housing Connections In Baltimore presented at the MAHRA Conference Panel: Strategies for Connecting Transportation and Affordable Housing May 21, 2014 Tamara Woods, City of Baltimore Department of Planning

  2. Baltimore Income Income Distribution in 2010 Median Household Income 2000 2010 Source: 2000 Census SF3, 2010 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates

  3. Baltimore Transit and Median Income

  4. Baltimore Transit and Median Sales Price

  5. Current Tools for Creating Affordable Housing and Targeting Investment • Requiring Affordable units with Housing Authority (HABC) and HCD land • Projects using HOME, City Bond Funds and PILOTS • Inclusionary Housing Legislation • Planned Unit Developments • Housing Market Typology

  6. Housing Market Typology

  7. Challenges To Creating Affordable Housing Near Transit • Baltimore is already “Affordable”: Inherent conflict between transit dependent very low income and cost of building new housing • Areas with cheaper land are lower income, so risk of income segregation • Cost of Land • High cost areas have cost land which prices out affordable housing • Land Assembly is expensive and time consuming • Zoning is not in place

  8. Challenges To Creating Affordable Housing Near Transit • Connect affordable housing to the jobs outside Baltimore City.    • Need to create a housing market in some neighborhoods • Goal to create mixed income neighborhoods • Introduce new housing types • Reduce vacancy • Reduce and redistribute density by reconfiguring land

  9. Policy Shift: Where We Are Headed • Considering Small Developer Gap Financing tool in CAMP Plan • Creation of New and Improved Zoning Categories • New TOD Zones • Industrial Mixed Use (I-MU) • Lowering require lot area requirements for Single Family Detached and Semi-detached Dwelling Units • Lowering Parking Requirements

  10. Proposed TOD Zoning Categories

  11. Oliver: Re-envisioning The Affordable Rowhouse For sale units a maximum of 80% or 120% of AMI Rental units maximums of 50%- 80% of AMI (based on the funding source). Most tenants and home buyers are under 120% of AMI.

  12. Opportunities: Ice House, Highlandtown and Oldtown Historic Oldtown Mall Somerset Homes Grocery Store & Parking Mixed-Use including office Fire Museum

  13. Casino Areas Master Plan • Marketable as an area of regional housing choice • Capitalize on proximity to rail and transportation network • Capitalize on proximity Baltimore, Anne Arundel and Howard counties and Washington, DC. • Create a better balance between affordable and market rate housing

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