Reducing the Cost of Housing: Planning, Zoning, Diversity + Efficiency

You have thirty days from your date of enrollment to complete this course.

The cost of housing continues to be one of the most significant challenges in our communities.  Join us to discuss four keys to reducing the cost of housing.

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  • Enroll now to learn:

  • Planning - We can unlock the potential of our communities with better planning for future land use.

  • Zoning - We can create more diversity in our housing stock by removing artificially high requirements for minimum home sizes and working to limit regulation.

  • Diversity - We can build much stronger neighborhoods by including homes of different sizes to accommodate our housing needs at each stage of our lives - you can stay in your community rather than moving away to find the right-sized home.

  • Efficiency - We can design with performance in mind to create healthier and more comfortable homes that cost less to maintain and operate each month. These performance goals can often be achieved at no additional cost yet they offer significant payback over the life of the home.

These are critical issues because they effect all of us in all stages of our lives… at all ages. Expensive housing means we must spend money on housing rather than other endeavors such as saving, education, investment, travel, etc. 

We need to implement better solutions. Thankfully, those solutions are available today.


We hold frequent meetings so we have an opportunity to check in with you. We welcome your off-topic questions… related to architecture. 

Got something you’re trying to figure out? Let us help!

This course is a recording of a live virtual meeting. We provide contact information at the end of the meeting in case you have a question and want to follow up with us.

Course Instructor

Advocate + Collaborator Ryan Taylor

Ryan Taylor is a registered architect. He’s also earned certifications in energy rating/performance verification, site design, disaster response, distance learning, etc. Ryan is active in community, legislative and building code issues. He’s been speaking/teaching since 2008 and is frequently invited to speak at community and industry events. His comments have been widely published.