Northern Virginia Affordable Housing Alliance; Board of Directors
NAACP - Arlington Chapter; Housing Committee
Metropolitan Transportation Commission/Association of Bay Area Governments (San Francisco Region); Public Lands Reuse Initiative Advisory Panel
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Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing; Board of Directors
ULI Washington, DC; Local Housing Product Council
Arlington County Affordable Housing Master Plan Working Group; Vice-Chair
Arlington County Homeownership Advisory Working Group
Volunteer Positions
PREVIOUS Publications
Research and reports authored or co-authored by Michael A. Spotts:
ULI Terwilliger Center 2022 Home Attainability Index (July 2022)
Stable Residents, Stable Properties: Perspectives on Rent Control, Eviction Moratoriums, and Other Contemporary Approaches (download PDF; December 2021)
Author in role as Senior Visiting Research Fellow; Urban Land Institute Terwilliger Center for Housing
Shaw Symposium on Urban Community Issues: Equitable Investment in Infrastructure and Housing (download PDF; September 2021)
Author in role as Senior Visiting Research Fellow; Urban Land Institute Terwilliger Center for Housing
ULI Terwilliger Center 2021 Home Attainability Index (March 2021)
Howard County, MD: Housing Opportunities Master Plan (March 2021)
Contributing author in partnership with RCLCO, JMT, and PRR
Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development: Statewide 10-Year Housing Needs Assessment (December 2020)
Contributing author in partnership with National Center for Smart Growth and Enterprise Community Partners
New Deal for Housing Justice: A Housing Playbook for the New Administration (January 2021)
Contributing co-author to overall publication by Community Change
Montgomery County, MD Preservation Study (November 2020)
In partnership with HR&A Advisors and LSA
ULI Terwilliger Center Pilot Home Attainability Index and Dashboard (February 2020)
Vermont Housing Finance Agency: Analysis of Affordable Rental Housing Development Cost Factors (January 2020)
In partnership with LSA
Increasing Housing Supply and Attainability: Improving Rules & Engagement to Build More Housing (May 2019)
Report produced for Urban Land Institute-Washington, DC in partnership with Rhodeside & Harwell.
Press: With task force, ULI Washington will tackle regional barriers to housing affordability, Washington Business Journal
Building Northern Virginia’s Future: Policies to Create a More Affordable, Equitable Housing Supply (January 2019)
Supplemental report: Research Justifications for Building Northern Virginia’s Future
Reports produced for the Northern Virginia Affordable Housing Alliance
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Housing Study and Needs Assessment (December 2018)
In partnership with Enterprise Community Partners
Northern Virginia's Preservation Challenge: Trends, Threats, and Opportunities (June 2018)
Report produced for the Northern Virginia Affordable Housing Alliance
Presentation at July 25 event on A Community Forum on Preservation through a Lens of Equity and Inclusion
Meeting the Housing Needs of Older Adults in Montgomery County, MD (May 2018)
In partnership with Lisa Sturtevant & Associates, LLC and the George Mason University Center for Regional Analysis
Public Benefit from Publicly Owned Parcels series
Effective Practices in Affordable Housing Development (June 2017)
Advancing Implementation in the Puget Sound Region (October 2017)
Giving Due Credit: Balancing Priorities in State Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Policies (June 2016)
Promoting Opportunity through Equitable Transit-Oriented Development series
Making the Case (April 2015)
Barriers to Success and Best Practices for Implementation (October 2015)
Contributing researcher to: Navigating Federal Transportation Policy (March 2018)
Bending the Cost Curve series
Solutions to Expand the Supply of Affordable Rentals (January 2014)
A Year of Progress in Bending the Cost Curve (November 2014)
Food at Home: Affordable Housing as a Platform to Overcome Nutritional Challenges (April 2014)
New Starts: Leveraging the New Transit Policy Guidance to Create Inclusive Communities of Opportunity (August 2013)
Other Initiatives
Organized or co-organized by Michael A. Spotts:
Other completed Neighborhood Fundamentals projects include:
Grounded Solutions Network: State and local policy analysis for community land trusts and shared equity homeownership programs
Prince George's County, MD: Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (in partnership with Enterprise Community Partners and Lisa Sturtevant & Associates, LLC