Volume 5 Issue 2

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Affordable Housing and Transportation: Creating New Linkages Benefiting Low-Income Families
After housing, transportation is now the second biggest expense for America's families. This article focuses on how the 2003 renewal of the federal surface transportation law presents an opportunity to strengthen the policy linkages between housing and transportation.

Perspectives
West Marin County supervisor Steven Kinsey discusses the San Francisco Bay area's Transportation for Livable Communities program, which he believes enables local governments and community organizations to better integrate transportation and land-use planning.

Stay the Course: How a Broad Coalition Wants to Make TEA-3 Serve Community Outcomes
A coalition of public interest groups, from business leaders to transit operators, has come together to advocate for more choices, more local control, and more collaboration in the 2003 reauthorization of the federal transportation law.

Insight
Affordable housing and environmental advocates have more in common than you might think.

Resources
Find articles, reports, and Web sites for more information about the topics addressed in this issue.

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Editorial Information

Editor: Sheila F. Maith
Associate Editor: Stephanie A. Jennings
Manuscript Editor: Kathy Litzenberg

ISSN 1525-2833

Housing Facts & Findings is published by the Fannie Mae Foundation. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the editors, Fannie Mae Foundation, or its officers and directors.