Deck 15: Housing

Question 1

The New Jersey Fair Housing Act allows municipalities to transfer its fair share of affordable housing in exchange for payment.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

In some jurisidictions, inclusionary zoning requires that a proportion of units within a development be affordable.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Housing Policy refers to the building of houses.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

As a house ages it will filter into lower income categories of the market.

Question 5

NIMBYism is a common objection to public housing.

Question 6

Some argue that government standards and building requirements increase the cost of housing.

Question 7

The 1954 Housing Act allowed a percentage of a project grant to be used for non-residential development.

Question 8

Urban Renewal proved successful in that it increased the supply of low-cost housing.

Question 9

The housing program HOPE VI allowed funds to be used for support services.

Question 10

Housing subsidies bridge the gap between market prices and ability to pay.

Question 11

Housing Vouchers are an inducement to encourage builders to produce low cost housing.

Question 12

A Housing Trust Fund supports the development and retention of affordable housing for various populations through financial resources.

Question 13

A community land trust improves the affordability of housing by eliminating the value of the structure from the home buying equation.

Question 14

It is generally accepted that "affordability" means a household pays no more than 30% of its annual income on housing.

Question 15

Public housing policies have been characterized by strong support since the very beginning.

Question 16

Which of the following is a transportation demand management tool?

A) Speed Humps
B) Traffic Circles
C) Chicanes
D) High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes

Question 17

Downs' principle of 'triple convergence' explains why…

A) Why Mixed-use reduces traffic.
B) How free parking increases single occupancy vehicle traffic.
C) How land use and transportation are linked.
D) Why increased road space eventually fills with increased traffic

Question 18

Which piece of transportation related legislation reinforced the importance of metropolitan transportation planning in addition to resurrecting the MPO?

A) Urban Mass Transportation Act (UMTA)
B) Federal Aid Highway Act
C) Intermodal Surface and Transportation Efficiency ACT (ISTEA)
D) Transportation Equity Act for the Twenty-First Century (TEA-21)

Question 19

Multimodal transportation consists of

A) Highways
B) Transit Facilities
C) Bicycle Paths
D) All of the Above

Question 20

What is difficult to capture in terms of transportation statistics and impacts?

A) Public Transit
B) Telecommuting
C) Single Occupant Vehicle Travel
D) Rail Travel

Question 21

A difficulty associated with the land use and transportation relationship is

A) Land use agencies have little or no transportation responsibility
B) The separatism of both types of agencies is reinforced by the different skills and interests of planners and transportation engineers
C) The independence of local governments
D) All of the above

Question 22

Which is a benefit of a transit-oriented development (TOD)?

A) Enhanced transit ridership
B) Automobile dependence
C) Increased parcel size
D) None of the above

Question 23

Speed humps, traffic circles and chicanes are examples of

A) Transit-oriented developments (TODs)
B) Transport Demand Management (TDM)
C) Traffic Calming
D) Congestion Charging

Question 24

The idea that every driver seeks the easiest route is an illustration of

A) Transport demand management
B) Congestion Equity
C) Traffic calming
D) Downs' principle of 'triple convergence'

Question 25

Using parking as a policy instrument is an effective tool of

A) Transport demand programs
B) Traffic Calming
C) Road pricing
D) Automobile Dependence

Question 26

What tool directly works to shift rush hour highway travel to other transportation modes or to off-peak periods?

A) Downs' principle of 'triple convergence'
B) Congestion pricing
C) Traffic calming
D) All of the above

Question 27

The 1949 Housing Act introduced which of the following?

A) "a decent home & suitable living environment for every American family"
B) "Urban Renewal"
C) "Housing Plus"
D) "LIHTC"

Question 28

Housing Trust Funds are not typically established…

A) Through resolution
B) Through Legislation
C) Through ordinance
D) Privately

Question 29

Problems associated with low-income housing are exacerbated by all of the following factors except

A) Housing subsidies
B) Affordability
C) Quality of housing
D) NIMBYs

Question 30

The federal government's major program for assisting very low-income families, the elderly, and the disabled to afford decent, safe, and sanitary housing in the private market is known as

A) Enterprise Foundation
B) Inner City Ventures Fund
C) Housing choice voucher program
D) BRIDGE

Question 31

Housing trust funds may get their funding from

A) Mortgage recording fees
B) Utility user fees
C) Transient Occupancy Taxes
D) All of the above

Question 32

Another way to develop and preserve affordable homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income households at or below 80% of the area median income is

A) Accessory dwelling units
B) Community Land Trusts (CLT)
C) Housing choice voucher program
D) Housing Subsidies

Question 33

Accessory dwelling units are

A) Another term for condominiums
B) A unit located on a lot of a primary dwelling unit
C) Vacation homes
D) None of the above

Question 34

Bonusing' is another term for

A) Affordable housing
B) Housing trust funds
C) Housing choice vouchers
D) Inclusionary zoning

Question 35

Which act established a Council on Affordable Housing (COAH)?

A) New Jersey Fair Housing Act
B) Federal Fair Housing Act
C) Mount Laurel
D) None of the Above

Question 36

Exclusionary zoning practices in which town directly led to the formulation of the New Jersey Fair Housing Act?

A) Trenton
B) Camden
C) Mount Laurel
D) All of the above

Question 37

In 1969, which state mandated that communities should provide a minimum of 10% of their housing as affordable?

A) California
B) Colorado
C) Oregon
D) Massachusetts