Parks+Housing: Preventing Displacement Around Major Green-Space Investments

Some of the best planning practices for healthy communities -- high-quality parks, bike lanes, transit, new green spaces -- can also create concerns about displacement of existing residents due to rising property values and housing costs. Learn practical methods for incorporating proactive, anti-displacement planning into your major parks and infrastructure projects from relevant case studies.

In Houston’s Gulfton neighborhood—today’s Ellis Island — Harris County Precinct 4 included an affordable housing anti-displacement strategy in a visionary reimagining of the area's Burnett Bayland Park, which will ultimately nearly double the park's size. In Austin, Texas, value capture and anti-displacement methods are part of the plan for the I-35 "cap and stitch" green spaces envisioned to reconnect areas separated by highway construction.

Learn how to evaluate the root causes of displacement risk and assess affordable housing impact as part of major parks and infrastructure planning processes, examine the relative impacts of affordable housing preservation versus new development, and learn about funding strategies including value capture, the Inflation Reduction Act and American Rescue Plan Act, homeownership subsidies, and traditional federal and state affordable housing sources.

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