HOMEOWNERSHIP AND HEALTHY LIVING GAPS ONCE IDENTIFIED BY ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE PROVEN THROUGH FINE-GRADE DATA
To address the inequity, South Bend revamped its zoning ordinance to allow more Missing Middle -- include duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes, courtyard apartments, bungalow courts, townhouses, multiplexes, and live/work units – housing that tends to be more affordable and better at serving diverse communities.
South Bend won, in 2021, the 15th annual Richard
H. Driehaus Award from the Form-Based Codes Institute at Smart Growth America
for its new code aimed at addressing housing and investment inequity.
To further repair areas damaged by redlining and lack of private investment dating back to the 1960s, South Bend will grant $20,000 to cover the cost of connecting a property to the main sewer line – for homes built in urban infill areas.
Another ordinance prohibits extending new
sewer lines into the County, to prevent subsidizing sprawl development into the
fringe.
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