The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
The Pennsylvania State University
7 Armsby Building, University Park PA 16802-5602
814/863-4656(phone); 814/863-0586(fax)
Please send questions and comments to:
nercrd@psu.edu
Housing and Land Use DRAFT
Web-site: nercrd.psu.edu/HousingLandUse/Resources.html
List-serv: NEELUN-L@lists.psu.edu
Committee Members
Nelson Bills, Michele Gagne, Stephan Goetz, Rod Howe, Peter Marshall, Bill McMaster,
Susan Westa, Walt Whitmer
New Resources
1. Housing conditions and affordability
4. The Maturing of America: Getting Communities on Track for an Aging America, MetLife Foundation
5. Selected Cooperative Extension Housing Resources
6. Restoring Prosperity: The State Role in Revitalizing America's Older Industrial Cities, The Brookings Institution
7. Rural Sprawl in Upstate NY: Residential Development and Housing Prices , Powerpoint presentation
8. International Housing Affordability Report
9.Economics and Settlement Pattern: A Sustainable Future
Conference Call Notes
Notes from the May 3 Conference Call
Housing-Issues List
Alternative housing models (for coping with high/excessive local property tax levies)
Energy efficiency
Range of choice
Downtown redevelopment
Residential preferences/consequences
Changing demographics
The Players
University-research/extension units
Private sector
Federal agencies
Advocacy groups-NGOs
Resources
4. . Building Value and Security for Homeowners in "Mobile Home Parks:" A Report on Economic Outcomes,
Sally K. Ward, Charlie French, and Kelly Giraud, University of New Hampshire, Report by Carsey Institute.
5. The executive summary of a proposal developed by a group in Connecticut to address affordable housing. The proposal is based on the Massachusetts model using financial incentives to promote higher density development where infrastructure is already in place. The proposal is available at: http://www.homeconnecticut.org/images/stories/pdf/hc_plan_executive_summary.pdf
Fact sheets are available at: http://www.homeconnecticut.org/
6. Urban Sprawl and Risk for Being Overweight or Obese, Russ Lopez, American Journal of Public Health Vol 94, No. 9 (September 2004).
7. Obesity and the Built Environment, Katie M. Booth, Megan M. Pinkston, Walker S. Carlos Poston, Supplement to the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
8. Obesity, physical activity, and the urban environment: public health research needs, Russell P. Lopez and H. Patricia Hynes, Environmental Science: A Glocal Access Science Source 5:25 (2006).
9. Educational Initiatives Related to Housing in the Northeast: a Concept Paper (DRAFT), Nelson Bills and Peter Marshall.
11. Toward A New Metropolis: The Opportunity to Rebuild America, Arthur C. Nelson, A Discssion Paper Prepared for The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program (December 2004).
12. The Link Between Obesity and the Built Environment. Evidence from an Ecological Analysis of Obesity and Vehicle Miles of Travel in California, J. Lopez-Zetina, H. Lee and R. Friis.
13. Declining Rates of Physical Activity in the United States: What are the Contributors?, R.C. Brownson, T.K. Boehmer and D.A. Luke.
14. Policy Prescriptions for Healthier Communities, T. Pollard.
15. The Association Between Urban Form and Physical Activity in U.S. Adults, D. Berrigan and R.P. Troiano.
16. Relationship Between Urban Sprawl and Weight of United Stated Youth, R. Ewing, R.C. Brownson and D. Berrigan.
17. U.S. State- and County-level Social Capital in Relation to Obesity and Physical Inactivity: A Multilevel, Multivariable Analysis, D. Kim, S.V. Subramanian, S.L. Gortmaker and I. Kawachi.
18. Affordable Housing in Rural Pennsylvania, Rajen Mookerjee, Angela M. Williams Foster and David Y. Miller.
Affordable, quality housing provides well-documented benefits to families, children, and the community at large. For this reason, access to such housing is important to the residents of rural Pennsylvania.
19. Housing and Land Use Concept Paper, Nelson Bills.
20. The Economic Case for State Land Use Decision-Making, Stephan J. Goetz, The Journal of
Regional Analysis & Policy
21. Rural Cooperative Housing for Older Adults: An Emerging Challenge for Extension Educators, Jill Eversole Nolan and Thomas W. Blaine, Journal of Extension
22. The Department of Housing and Urban Development and Cooperative Extension: A Case for Urban Collaboration, Timothy O. Borich, Journal of Extension
23. Confronting Climate Change in the US Northeast, prepared by the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment Synthesis Team: Peter C. Frumhoff, James J. McCarthy, Jerry M. Melillo, Susanne C. Moser and Donald J. Wuebbles.
Green Housing
Affordable Green Building in Rural Communities, prepared by Mark Kudlowitz of the Housing Assistance Council (HAC)
Economic Impacts of the Green Industry in the United States, Southern Cooperative Series Bulletin 406
Wind Energy Development in New York State: Issues for Landowners, Christopher J. Dorociak, Duane Chapman, Brian Henehan, and Jude Barry.
Wind power development is increasing dramatically because of New York's Renewable Portfolio Standard. This standard will make it necessary for New York's utilities to increase their use of renewable energy by more than 50%. As a result, wind power developers are seeking new sites for wind power generation in New York.
