Housing Opportunities by Place (HOP)

The place typology for housing tools and actions identifies six types of places that are common across the region. These places are all unique communities, but share many common characteristics including access to opportunity, displacement risk, transit access, land use, housing stock, and sociodemographic information. Types of places are identified at the Census tract level. Given that most local jurisdictions include several Census tracts, one city may include multiple types of places.

The tools and actions were sorted based on the policy objectives for the different types of places, the direction set in the Regional Housing Strategy, and findings from Housing Incentives and Tools Survey on what tools and incentives are most effective. In addition to specific tools and actions for different types of places, the typology identifies a set of priority actions that are applicable in all communities regionwide.

The list of tools and actions for each type of place is not intended to be an exhaustive list, but rather a starting point for local jurisdictions looking to do more to address housing access and affordable, and additional options for next steps for jurisdictions that have already implemented some tools and actions.

The typology is grounded in the Displacement Risk Mapping and Opportunity Mapping tools. There are three categories of displacement risk (lower, moderate, higher) and five of opportunity access (very low, low, moderate, high, very high). These two categorization schemes were combined to construct the typology. To help keep the number of categories in the typology to a manageable number and to align with VISION 2050 equity analyses, the very low and low opportunity areas were grouped together as "Lower Opportunity" and the other three were grouped as "Higher Opportunity." The result includes six combinations of displacement risk and opportunity access as shown in the figure.

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The VISION 2050 Regional Growth Strategy was overlaid to differentiate between places anticipated to accommodate more (Metro, Core, HCT Regional Geographies) or less (Cities and Towns, Urban Unincorporated Regional Geographies) growth.