The Implementation Plan for Austin's Strategic Housing Blueprint analyzed opportunity, environmental hazards, and displacement risk to recommend affordable housing allocations for Austin's City Council Districts.
The goal of the project was to develop an implementation plan for the Austin Strategic Housing Blueprint. The Implementation Plan and Atlas of Existing and Historic Conditions identified actionable and quantifiable steps to reach Austin’s affordability goals.
The Implementation Plan and Atlas worked to identify locations for affordable housing in the city that maximize opportunity for residents while mitigating displacement, environmental hazards, and concentrated segregated housing.
Asakura Robinson conducted an analysis of data aggregated at the Council District level to determine areas with varying degrees of opportunity, access to transit, displacement risk, and concentrations of affordable housing.
The Blueprint also set clear goals for Austin’s housing production — including affordable housing production — over the next 10 years.
Asakura Robinson and the Austin Community Design and Development Center (ACDDC) worked with the City of Austin and conducted extensive stakeholder and implementer outreach to develop an Implementation Plan for the Strategic Housing Blueprint that identifies actionable and quantifiable steps to reach Austin’s affordability goals, as well as an Atlas of Existing and Historical Conditions that will guide future development.
The Implementation Plan recommendations include action steps and priorities for the two year and ten-year timeframes, metrics of success for action steps, resource and funding needs for implementation, and a process and timeline for reporting to City Council on progress.
The Atlas of Existing and Historical Conditions helps define key terms from the Blueprint such as “high-opportunity areas” and “gentrifying areas,” and uses four key areas of emphasis from the Blueprint to create a set of geographically-specific goals for housing production and preservation within different areas of the City. The Atlas also includes a focused analysis on housing production and preservation needs near 2016 Mobility Bond corridors.
View the final plan here.