Presentation from Partners in Innovation National Symposium in Denver, CO on September 27, 2010.

1. Mixed-Income Transit-Oriented Development
Action Guide
Partners in Innovation: Including Affordable and Workforce
Housing within Transit-Oriented Developments
Data Tools To Support TOD Decision-Making
September 27, 2010, Denver, Colorado
Sasha Forbes
www.reconnectingamerica.org

2. The Center for Transit-Oriented Development
• Creating a national marketplace for
TOD, working with cities, transit
agencies, developers, investors and
communities
• Best practices, technical assistance,
research, policy reform
• A collaboration of Reconnecting
America, The Center for Neighborhood
Technology, and Strategic Economics
• Sponsors include: FTA, HUD, EPA,
Ford, McKnight, Surdna, Brookings,
Enterprise Community Partners,
Corporate Sponsors, Transit Agencies,
Cities
www.reconnectingamerica.org

3. A TOD 101 Re-cap
• Compact development with ½
mile of transit
• Mix of uses:
– Housing, jobs, restaurants,
and entertainment
• Benefits:
– Location efficient
– Value for public and private
sector
– Creates a sense of place
and community
– Helps to promote
sustainability
– Boosts transit ridership

4. The Demand for TOD
• Changing demographics
– Singles will soon be the new majority
– Old people will outnumber young people
 Transit ridership
by mid-century up 38% since 1995
– Almost half the U.S. population will be
non-white by 2050
– Demographic groups growing most
quickly -- older, non-family, non-white
households—use transit more
• Shifts in consumer preferences to a
more urban lifestyle.
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5. Demand is Increasing…But So Are Prices
• By 2030
– Demand for housing near transit Potential Household Demand for TOD in
2030, by Household Income ($1999)
estimated to grow from 6 million to
15 million households
– More than half of potential
$75,000 and
demand for housing near transit Greater Less Than
will be from households with 21% $20,000
30%
below median incomes
$50,000 -
• Land costs near transit are high $74,999
13% $20,000 -
$35,000 - $34,999
• Developers tend to build to the $49,999 19%
highest end of the market 14%
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6. Transit Reduces Household
Transportation Costs
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7. Making the Way for MITOD
• Offers Truly Affordable
Housing
• Promotes Equitable TOD
• Stabilizes Transit
Ridership
• Broadens Access to
Opportunity
• Relieves Gentrification
Pressures
• Provides for a diversity
of people - singles,
families, retirees

8. Who Benefits?
• Low-Income Households:
Access to Opportunity
• Other Households: More
Stable Neighborhoods
• Transit Agencies: More
Stable Ridership
• Employers: More Stable
Workforce
• Developers: More Moderate
Swings of Market Cycles
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9. Making MITOD Work to Create
Equitable Communities
There is no “one size fits all”
TOD solution

10. Shared Issues Across Regions
Achieving
revitalization
without
Complexity of displacement Addressing
building housing
mixed-income preservation
projects needs
Supportive
High land
policies
costs near
needed at all
transit
levels
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11. Mixed-Income TOD
Action Guide (MITODAG)
• A tool for local
jurisdictions working to
foster mixed-income
transit-oriented
development (TOD)
around planned transit
stations.
• Acquire an invaluable
set of data that
describes the
demographics and
market-potential of the
transit district of
interest,

12. Components of MITODAG
• Sections
– ―How To‖
– Plan MITOD
– MITOD Tools
– new section: MITOD
News
• Tools and Strategies:
– Case studies of the
tools
• Audience:
– Primarily planners,
community advocates,
community based
organizations
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13. MITODAG Analysis
• Process for thinking
about MITOD:
– Existing
Conditions
– MITOD
Opportunities
– MITOD Strategies
• Sample output
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14. Action Guide Demo
http://www.mitod.org/analysis.php
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15. Use MITOD Action Guide in Context
• Tools used must
consider the local
environment
• Other public
investments should
support mixed-income
communities
• Mixed-Income
Communities are more
than Housing
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16. Questions?
Visit www.mitod.org
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