Growth, Sprawl and Affordable Housing Resources
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Affordable Housing
In the News
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- New England home prices leveling off
- While home sales prices skyrocketed in dozens of metropolitan areas in the South and West last year, most New England cities limped along.
- Turning the corner on housing crisis
- Despite the gloom and doom in recent reports about housing in Massachuessets, some remarkable progress has been made.
- Priced Out
- Massachusett's 'smart-growth' plans are supposed to loosen the housing squeeze and give would-be home buyers a fighting chance. Problem is, no one seems to be listening.
- State of the State: Douglas focuses on affordability
- Governor Douglas' State of the State address emphasizes affordable living and lower property taxes.
- Housing slowdown blamed on local rules
- Summarizes Harvard's Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston's two-year survey of land-use rules in the 187 cities and towns within 50 miles of Boston.
- Hub families losing: Most homes not affordable
- Results of a survey by the National Association of Home Builders are detailed.
- Report: Home ownership too expensive for most R.I. families
- Rhode Island ranks 47th in the nation in homeownership.
- Douglas unveils housing plans
- Douglas seeks a package of tax credits and other incentives for the construction of more affordable housing in Vermont.
- Housing Costs Hurting Bay State
- Summary of A.D. Makepeace President Michael P. Hogan's speech on the impact rising housing costs have on the number of young families leaving Massachusetts.
- High-priced housing especially tough on young
- Looks into problem of rising housing costs in New Hampshire.
- Growth can be green
- Environmentalists like having a decent, affordable place to live in a diverse community with good schools.
Reports
- Affordable Housing and Open Space: Creative Partnerships for Success March 28, 2005
- The presentation highlights 13 developments in 8 communities across the state that provide a broad range of strategies for successfully constructing affordable housing while preserving important natural areas.
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Housing and Wages in Vermont 2006
- This report has tracked the gap between housing costs and wages in Vermont, and that gap continued to grow wider in 2005. There are signs Vermont may make progress in the coming years against our persistent affordable housing shortage; however, despite a growing economy, the number of Vermonters and their families feeling the squeeze of soaring housing costs continues to rise.
- Housing and the Vermont Economy January 30, 2006
- THIS ISSUE PAPER OUTLINES CONCERNS
being raised by many of the state’s employers
about Vermont’s housing situation and
describes some of the economic benefits of
addressing those concerns by creating more
affordable housing. - Housing New Hampshire's Workforce March 28, 2005
- The purpose of this study is to estimate the aggregate cost that a tight workforce housing market places on the New Hampshire economy.
- Housing Solutions for New Hampshire Handbook October 2004
- This handbook focuses on the range of tools and techniques that can be employed at the local level and provides highlights of a number of successful efforts in New Hampshire.
- Spreading Prosperity to the "Other Maines" November 2005
- This set of symposium papers consists of a collection of sixteen short thought pieces that reflect upon regional economic disparities in Maine. The twin goals of this collection are first, to expose readers to creative thinking about Maine’s persistent regional disparities and second, to help frame an agenda for deeper analysis of strategies to turn problems into challenges and opportunities for rim county development.
- Where is Affordable Housing on the National Agenda? October 9, 2002
- This speech by Bruce Katz was given at the Fannie Mae Foundation Annual Housing Conference in 2002. Katz asserts that affordable housing advocates need to start connecting affordable housing explicitly to broader issues of smart growth policies, education reform, and helping welfare families to enter and remain in the workforce. Recognizing this connection to broader issues will help lift affordable housing to the place it deserves in the American domestic agenda.
Organizations
- Burlington Community Land Trust
- The Burlington Community Land Trust (BCLT) is a non-profit, member-based organization in Burlington, Vermont. Its mission is to ensure access to affordable homes and vital communities for all people through the democratic stewardship of land.
- Citizens Housing and Planning Association
- Citizens' Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA) is the non-profit umbrella organization for affordable housing and community development activities throughout Massachusetts. CHAPA's mission is to encourage the production and preservation of housing that is affordable to low-income families and individuals.
- HousingWorks RI
- HousingWorks RI is a coalition, unprecedented in its breadth and depth. It is also a campaign, intended to end one crisis: the state's severe shortage of quality, affordable housing.
- The Housing Partnership
- The mission of The Housing Partnership is to strengthen communities by providing quality affordable housing and related services for low and moderate-income residents of the Greater Seacoast region of New Hampshire and southern Maine.
- The InterValley Project
- The InterValley Project (IVP), a New England organizing network directed by its member organizations, to save and create jobs, affordable housing and critical public services in some of the oldest and poorest industrial areas in the nation.
- Maine State Housing Authority
- The Mission of the Maine State Housing Authority is to assist Maine people to obtain and maintain decent, safe affordable housing and services suitable to their unique needs.
- Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance (MAHA)
- Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance (MAHA) is a statewide non profit group that works to encourage local and state government and business to invest more money in affordable housing.
- Massachusetts Housing Partnership (MHP)
- The Massachusetts Housing Partnership (MHP) is a statewide public non-profit affordable housing organization that works in concert with the Governor and the state Department of Housing and Community Development to help increase the supply of affordable housing in Massachusetts.
- New England Housing Network
- The New England Housing Network, a broad coalition of housing and community development organizations formed in 1995, is the first regional response in the country to changes in federal housing and community development programs.
- New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority
- New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority is a public benefit corporation whose mission is to promote, finance and support safe, affordable and needed housing and related services for New Hampshire families, individuals and communities.
- New Hampshire Workforce Housing Council
- The Workforce Housing Council (WHC) is a statewide organization that promotes ways to increase and diversify the supply of housing so employers will view our state as an attractive place to live and work.
- Rhode Island Housing & Mortgage Finance Corporation
- As the state's principal housing agency, Rhode Island Housing helps low- and moderate-income Rhode Islanders find houses and apartments they can afford.
- Upper Valley Housing Coalition
- The Upper Valley Housing Coalition works to promote a diversity of rental and ownership options in the Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire that are affordable for all income groups.
- Vermont Housing Finance Agency
- VHFA's mission is to finance and promote affordable, safe and decent housing opportunities for low- and moderate-income Vermonters.
- Vermont Housing and Conservation Board
- In 1986, a coalition of affordable housing, conservation, and historic preservation advocates concerned with this rapid change in the character of the Vermont landscape approached the state legislature with a plan to form a unique agency to review and fund projects addressing a range of community needs. The Legislature responded, passing the Vermont Housing and Conservation Trust Fund Act, enacted in June 1987, and capitalized with $3 million.
Governance
In the News
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- State tax burdens jump across the country
- Every state but one collected more taxes per person in 2004 than it did a decade earlier, according to newly released data from the Census Bureau. New Hampshire's state tax burden more than doubled.
- Baldacci administration finds added gains from tax reform
- The Baldacci administration presented a glowing analysis Thursday of the initial impact of last year's property tax relief package.
- Two N.H. senators propose eliminating county functions
- Bill proposes to down-size county government in order to reduce burden on tax payers.
- "Collaborate or Collapse" -- Tough New England Message
- Examines escalating costs and rising frustrations of small town governments and highlights Maine's "regionalization" program.
- What Price Home Rule?
- Examines the price Massachusetts is paying for its tradition of home rule.
Reports
- Revenue Sharing and the Future of the Massachusetts Economy January 2006
- According to this report, the future economic prosperity of Massachusetts is dependent on increasing the fiscal capacity of cities and towns. Between 1987 and 2004 total constant-dollar spending by local governments increased by only 1.7 percent, and as a result, local spending on core public services has lagged. The authors contend that this “suggests that municipalities are ill-equipped in the battle to offset negative employment and demographic trends in the Commonwealth."
Organizations
- New England Association of Regional Councils (NEARC)
- The mission of NEARC is to increase the effectiveness throughout New England of Regional Councils - public organizations encompassing multiple jurisdictions serving the local governments and citizens in the region by dealing with issues and needs that cross city, town, county and even state boundaries through communication, planning, policymaking, coordination, advocacy and technical assistance.
Growth and Sprawl
In the News
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- WORKSHOPS SET ON NEW STATE LAND USE PLAN
- The State Planning Council has authorized public hearings and workshops on Land Use 2025, the State Land Use Polices and Plan that establishes a State vision to direct the future physical development of Rhode Island.
- CommonWealth Growth & Development EXTRA 2006
- MassINC launches a special extra edition of CommonWealth magazine entirely devoted to growth and development in Massachusetts.
- Portland at a Crossroad
- A special series by the Portland Press Herald that takes a look at where Maine's largest city is headed.
- State of Sprawl
- This special series by the Hartford Courant ran from October 9 - November 27, 2005.
- Conservation linked to economic growth from tourism
- New Hampshire is losing tourists to Vermont and Maine do to over development.
- Communities by Smart Design
- A Governors Institute on Community Design is spearhead by three political figures including Angus King, Ex-Governor of Maine.
- Smart growth scorecard
- Romney administration falls into either the ''needs improvement" or ''failing" categories for their "smart growth" initiative.
- No Kids on the Block
- Article about Vancouver's child-friendly city planning.
- Smart Growth News
- Articles on Smart Growth appearing in newspapers around each state can be found at Smart Growth Online.
Reports
- Above and Beyond: Visualizing Change in Small Towns and Rural Areas 2003
- Above and Beyond explains how individual choices, government policies, corporate decisions, technology and economic trends shape our landscape. It will help rural planners, planning commissioners and citizens who want to fight sprawl development in their communities ensure that changes in land use result from foresight, not happenstance.
- Community Rules: A New England Guide to Smart Growth Strategies 2002
- A guidebook for local planners, concerned citizens, and others who want to achieve smart growth in their communities through better planning, zoning, and permitting.
- Connecticut Metropatterns 2005
- Connecticut Metropatterns: A Regional Agenda for Community and Prosperity in Connecticut is a study commissioned by the Office of Urban Affairs of the Archdiocese of Hartford. The study presents social, economic and environmental realities, patterns and trends that affect the lives of everyone in Connecticut, and suggests important new policy directions for the state.
- Connecticut's Future 2005
- A wide variety of recent reports, polls and policy documents agree that Connecticut is at a crossroads. They look at Connecticut — its strengths and its challenges — from a variety of viewpoints. But there is broad agreement regarding the biggest challenges we face and how to address them. The common themes are striking. Some highlights are summarized here.
- Divided We Sprawl 2001
- This study examines metropolitanism, the idea that cities and suburbs are related, rather than antithetical, and make up a single social and economic reality. This reality is that urban and suburban communities lose out as a result of voracious growth in undeveloped areas and slower growth or absolute decline in older places.
- Does Sprawl Reduce the Black/White Housing Consumption Gap? 2001
- This study explores how anti-sprawl policies are contributing to more affordable housing, therefore helping to reduce the black/white housing consumption gap.
- The Environmental Impact of Suburbanization 2000
- This paper uses recent household-level data sets to study some of the environmental consequences of population suburbanization.
- Farming on the Edge: Sprawling Development Threatens America's Best Farmland 2002
- This research uses the tool of compelling maps to lay out the threats and gives reasoned solutions-so communities, legislators and individuals can clearly see what needs to be done to protect the country's best farmland. The national and state maps, based on data from the U.S. census and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, offer a true picture of where the issues are most urgent.
- Growing Together: Consensus Building, Smart Growth, and Community Change
- This film explores how consensus building can bring communities together as they grapple with difficult issues regarding growth and development. Speaking in their own words, community officials, concerned citizens, and developers of smart growth and revitalization projects discuss how difficult issues can be approached collaboratively to find successful paths for change, using principles discussed by consensus-building experts.
- GrowSmart Maine's Educational Briefs
- GrowSmart Maine's Education Committee has written and published Smart Growth Educational Briefs on topics related to growth and planning.
- Hands on the Land: A History of the Vermont Landscape 2002
- In this book Jan Albers examines the history--natural, environmental, social, and ultimately human--of one of America's most cherished landscapes: Vermont. Albers shows how Vermont has come to stand for the ideal of unspoiled rural community, examining both the basis of the state's pastoral image and the equally real toll taken by the pressure of human hands on the land.
- Land Use 2025: RHODE ISLAND'S STATE LAND USE POLICIES AND PLAN December 2005
- Land Use 2025 puts forth a vision and a plan for land management in Rhode Island. The report examines where Rhode Island is headed, where it wants to be in 20 years, what issues the state needs to be concerned about, and steps for achieving the plan.
- New Hampshire's Changing Landscape 2005
- An update of the 1999 analysis of changes in population growth, development and land use and the impacts on natural resource values.
- Open Space, Housing Construction and Home Prices: What’s the Payoff from Smart Growth? September 2005
- This study looks at housing prices and land use in the Rt. 128-495 corridor of Massachusetts and estimates how much land would be consumed if the state kept up with demand under current large-lot zoning principles.
- PlannersWeb
- This website, sponsored by The Planning Commissioners Journal, contains a variety of resources for designed for citizen planners, including members of local planning commissions and zoning boards
- Planning Policy and Politics: Smart Growth and the States November 2005
- Updating his two previous books on growth management in the states, John M. DeGrove examines the history and current systems for planning and smart growth in nine states: Oregon, Florida, New Jersey, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, Georgia, Maryland, and Washington.
- Reinventing Megalopolis: The Northeast MegaRegion 2005
- Despite its exceptional economic assets, the Northeast is being threatened by inadequate and congested infrastructure, fragmented governance, land-consuming sprawl, and growing social and economic disparity. This report outlines seven strategies that can be employed as tools to improve the future livability of the Northeast MegaRegion.
- Resource Clearinghouse for Growing Communities
- The Resource Clearinghouse for Growing Communities was created for New England communities experiencing growth and development and needing a fast and accessible way to find resources that can assist in preserving New England community character, conserving open space and protecting the environment, and supporting efforts to achieve smart growth.
- Resource Revitalizing Maine’s Downtowns October 2004
- A number of barriers exist at the state and local level that discourage or prevent downtown redevelopment efforts. Through conversations with stakeholders from across the state, the Maine Downtown Center and its partners have developed a series of recommendations in this report to increase investment in Maine’s downtowns.
- A SCAN OF SMART GROWTH ISSUES IN NEW ENGLAND August 2002
- This study scans general trends affecting growth and development in New England, examines problems emanating from current and future sprawl, and looks at future opportunities, challenges and directions for the region. Charts and data included.
- Smart Growth Shareware
- On a single CD-ROM, the Shareware compiles over 100 publications, fact sheets, presentations, images, weblinks, and suggested reading. Resources are organized in a user-friendly format by various cross-searchable topics.
- Smart Growth Toolkit
- The Smart Growth Toolkit contains explanations of twelve smart growth techniques, provides case studies, powerpoint slide shows, model bylaws and printable brochures.
- Schools for Successful Communities: An Element of Smart Growth September 2004
- This publication explains why and how communities should employ smart growth planning principles to build schools that better serve and support students, staff, parents, and the entire community. When school districts collaborate with city leaders to incorporate smart growth principles in the master facility planning process, the community benefits socially and economically.
- Who Sprawls Most? How Growth Patterns Differ Across the U.S. July 2001
- This Brookings Institute paper measures recent trends in how rapidly American metropolitan areas are consuming land for urbanization in order to accommodate a changing population.
Organizations
- 1,000 Friends of Connecticut
- 1000 Friends of Connecticut is dedicated to growing a healthy economy with choice in transportation, housing and education; and respect for farmlands, open space, natural and historic resources.
- A.D. Makepeace
- A.D Makepeace's vision is to optimize the long-term value of its landholdings and agricultural and sand/gravel operations by integrating cranberry farming and community development, thereby creating unique and distinctive real estate destinations.
- American Farmland Trust
- Since our founding in 1980, American Farmland Trust has helped win permanent protection for over a million acres of American farmland. Our hard work and sound strategies unite farmers, environmentalists and policymakers. Read about AFT's work in the Northeast at their website.
- American Planning Association
- APA is a nonprofit public interest and research organization committed to urban, suburban, regional, and rural planning. APA and its professional institute, the American Institute of Certified Planners, advance the art and science of planning to meet the needs of people and society. APA chapters are located in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Northern New England.
- Congress for the New Urbanism | New England Chapter
- The mission of the New England Chapter of the CONGRESS FOR THE NEW URBANISM is to promote the Charter of the New Urbanism within New England; to educate the public and the development community regarding the benefits of New Urbanist planning, design and development; to support the implementation of projects consistent with the principles of New Urbanism at the local, regional and state levels; and to encourage the adoption of alternative form-based codes that promote traditional neighborhood development.
- Connecticut Land Trust Service Bureau
- The Land Trust Service Bureau (LTSB), a program of The Nature Conservancy Connecticut Chapter, The Land Trust Service Bureau (LTSB), a program of The Nature Conservancy Connecticut Chapter, works to improve the operational capabilities of Connecticut land trusts by providing current technical information and offering assistance and guidance.
- Ethan Allen Institute
- The Ethan Allen Institute is Vermont's independent, nonpartisan, free-market-oriented public policy think tank. The Institute offers "Ideas for Vermont's Future" built upon a libertarian, decentralist, community-based philosophy. It is one of some 41 similar but independent state organizations associated with the State Policy Network.
- Friends of Midcoast Maine
- This award-winning organization includes interested citizens, land owners, farmers, city folks, members of local land trusts, town officials, and socially responsible business people. Concerned that unplanned growth is transforming the matchless Midcoast Maine communities, Friends of Midcoast Maine is determined to replace mindless sprawl with sensible growth.
- Funders Network for Smart Growth
- The Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization that exists to inspire, strengthen and expand philanthropic leadership and funders’ abilities to support organizations working to improve communities through better development decisions and growth policies.
- Grow Smart Rhode Island
- Grow Smart Rhode Island is a statewide public interest group representing a broad coalition of partners fighting sprawl and leading the charge for better-managed growth through innovative policies and programs to revitalize city, town and village centers; preserve cultural and natural resources; expand economic opportunity for all Rhode Islanders.
- Growth Management Leadership Alliance
- The Growth Management Leadership Alliance (GMLA) is a network of leaders from state, provincial and regional organizations in the United States and Canada that carry out programs to directly shape and implement smart growth policies and actions.
- GrowSmart Maine
- GrowSmart Maine is working to engage Maine people in protecting our quality of life and shaping a more prosperous and sustainable future.
- Jordan Institute
- The Jordan Institute is a science-based, non-advocacy, non-profit organization that was conceived to improve New Hampshire’s environmental quality of life defined as the intersection of a healthy environment, healthy people, and a healthy economy. To achieve this goal, the Institute brings together people, objective information, and ideas from a variety of perspectives and disciplines to solve problems in ways that make sense for our people, our environment and our economy.
- Lyme Timber Company Conservation Advisory Services
- The Lyme Timber Company is a New Hampshire Limited Partnership organized in 1976 to invest in timberland and rural real estate for its own account and in partnership with other investors. Lyme’s experience in the conservation niche led to the creation in 1992 of an affiliated consulting business, LTC Conservation Advisory Services.
- Maine Land Trust Network
- The Maine Land Trust Network (MLTN) is a coordination service provided by Maine Coast Heritage Trust. Launched in 1995, MLTN helps facilitate communication among local land trusts, provides technical conservation information, disseminates news, and offers a forum for addressing conservation issues.
- Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition
- The Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition increases the effectiveness of trusts and conservation organizations in Massachusetts in working with the legislature and governmental agencies on issues of direct interest to the conservation movement.
- Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition
- The Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition increases the effectiveness of trusts and conservation organizations in Massachusetts in working with the legislature and governmental agencies on issues of direct interest to the conservation movement.
- Nature Conservancy
- The Nature Conservancy's mission is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. It has developed a strategic, science-based planning process, called Conservation by Design, which helps them identify the highest-priority places - landscapes and seascapes that, if conserved, promise to ensure biodiversity over the long term.
- New England Environmental Finance Center
- The purpose of the NE/EFC is to further the joint goals of the U.S. EPA and the Muskie School of researching, publishing, and extending creative approaches to environmental protection and management, especially respecting the associated "how-to-pay" questions. In particular, the Center works to advance the understanding and practice of "smart growth" throughout New England; to build local capacity to deal with related issues; and to develop and apply techniques that go "beyond compliance" with government regulations.
- New England Small Farm Institute
- The New England Small Farm Institute provides resources, workshops, and business and farm skills training to support beginning farmers and sustainable small-scale agriculture throughout New England.
- New Hampshire Audubon
- The Audubon Society of New Hampshire, a nonprofit statewide membership organization, is dedicated to the conservation of wildlife and habitat throughout the state. Independent of the National Audubon Society, ASNH has offered programs in wildlife conservation, land protection, environmental policy, and environmental education since 1914.
- The Northern Forest
- The Northern Forest Center, a non-profit organization, serves as a convener of ideas and dialogue on issues ranging from cultural heritage to economics, ecology, and community development. The Center was established in 1997 to help build a healthy and productive future for the Northern Forest and its people by strengthening citizen leadership and regional collaboration.
- Office of Urban Affairs of the Archdiocese of Hartford
- The Archdiocesan Office of Urban Affairs is committed to supporting the dignity and basic human rights of all persons in society, at every stage of their lives, who are subject to economic, political, and social deprivation. OUA will collaborate with other Archdiocesan programs and enlist all persons of good will in this ministry of social justice. Its CenterEdge Project is building a broad coalition to educate as many people as possible about disparities created by our long-term pattern of development in each metropolitan area of Connecticut.
- Orton Family Foundation
- The Orton Family Foundation seeks to transform the land use planning system as a pathway to vibrant and sustainable communities. In partnership with non-profit organizations, local and regional planning agencies and others, the Foundation helps engage and empower people to make land use decisions inspired by their community’s heart and soul.
- The Providence Plan
- Founded in 1992 as a joint venture of the City of Providence, the State of Rhode Island, the academic community, and the private sector, The Providence Plan is a nonprofit corporation governed by a 14-member board of directors. ProvPlan was founded to achieve six principal goals: put people to work, retain the City's middle class, make our neighborhoods safe and livable, prepare today’s children for tomorrow’s jobs, provide decent and affordable housing, increase jobs and tax base in downtown Providence.
- Regional Growth Partnership
- The Regional Growth Partnership is a nonprofit public/private corporation conducting economic development programs for South Central Connecticut. The Partnership's primary mission is to encourage cohesiveness between the public and private sectors in the development of policies and programs designed to make the South Central Region more competitive in the global economy.
- Rhode Island Land Trust Council
- The Rhode Island Land Trust Council's purpose is to foster a sustainable land conservation movement in Rhode Island by supporting the missions and operations of land trusts and providing a forum for their effective cooperation.
- Smart Growth America
- Smart Growth America is a coalition of national, state and local organizations working to improve the ways we plan and build the towns, cities and metro areas we call home. The coalition includes many of the best-known national organizations advocating on behalf of historic preservation, the environment, farmland and open space preservation, neighborhood revitalization and more. Our state- and regional-level members are community-based organizations working to save treasured landscapes while making our towns and cities ever more livable and lovable.
- Smart Growth Network
- In 1996, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency joined with several non-profit and government organizations to form the Smart Growth Network (SGN). The Network was formed in response to increasing community concerns about the need for new ways to grow that boost the economy, protect the environment, and enhance community vitality. The Network's partners include environmental groups, historic preservation organizations, professional organizations, developers, real estate interests; local and state government entities.
- Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
- Founded by a handful of concerned citizens in 1901, The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests is now one of the country's most effective statewide land conservation organizations. As a non-profit membership organization, the Forest Society is dedicated to protecting the state's most important landscapes while promoting the wise use of its renewable natural resources.
- The Trust for Public Land (TPL)
- The Trust for Public Land (TPL) is a national, nonprofit, land conservation organization that conserves land for people to enjoy as parks, community gardens, historic sites, rural lands, and other natural places, ensuring livable communities for generations to come. Make sure to view the TPL New England section of their website.
- The Urban Land Institute
- As the preeminent, multidisciplinary real estate forum, ULI facilitates the open exchange of ideas, information and experience among local, national and international industry leaders and policy makers dedicated to creating better places.
- Vermont Forum on Sprawl
- The mission of the Vermont Forum on Sprawl is to encourage economic vitality in community centers and preserve Vermont's unique working landscape and quality of life.
- Vermont Land Trust
- The Vermont Land Trust is a nonprofit organization that works with individuals, communities, and in partnership with many organizations and communities to conserve land
- Vermont Law School’s Land Use Institute
- Vermont Law School’s Land Use Institute systematically addresses the legal and planning aspects of current land use issues like sustainable development, ecology planning, siting of energy installations, permitting processes, and the scope of eminent domain.