Reference LibraryThe Little Book of Low-Cost, High-Impact Housing Solutions
Ivory Innovations and the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah. Second edition, 2026. Free to download from the publisher at the link below.
The Little Book of Low-Cost, High-Impact Housing Solutions is a 69 page field guide from Ivory Innovations. It names the six places where cities add cost and delay to housing, and what other cities have done about each: faster approvals, pre-approved plans, infill on existing infrastructure, zoning for smaller homes, new construction methods, and public private partnerships.
On November 3, 10,354 East Providence voters approved the $120 million statewide housing bond, 64 percent of the votes cast on it. That bond buys Affordable housing with a capital A, subsidized units with income limits in the deed. The “small a” kind, unsubsidized homes that are affordable because they were cheap to build and quick to permit, is where I have spent a decade and where City Hall has the most control. Time is what makes housing expensive here. Every dollar a family does not spend on rent gets spent on Bullocks Point Avenue.
Read it. Pick one of the six. None requires a bond.