Impact Fees and Housing Affordability


 

Publication Date: December 2004

Publisher: Furman Center for Real Estate

Author(s): Vicki Been

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: housing prices; impact fees; Affordable housing

Type: Article

Abstract:

The increasing use of impact fees and the costs that they may add to the development process raises serious concerns about the effect using impact fees to fund infrastructure will have on the affordability of housing.