The What and Why of Replacement Housing

Replacement Housing is the organic process of replacing marginal and obsolete housing with new homes, ensuring neighborhood vitality, relevance and growth. It’s not a new idea, having been long employed in affordable housing circles. Now, Replacement Housing is finding its way into more upscale neighborhoods as those houses age as well.

Transforming American Communities

The Replacement Housing movement is well under way across the country, and is transforming American communities one house at a time. Driving this phenomenon is a variety of factors that concern many people today: traffic congestion, accessibility to services, time-saving and the general appeal of the urban lifestyle. The trend is unmistakable – Replacement Housing isn’t a series of random events, but part of a larger, complex, predictable and growing phenomena. Each community experiencing it benefits through growth and vitality, a strengthened tax base, increased bonding capabilities and needed revenue for schools and municipal services.

We’re Involved, Across the Board

Replacement Housing Services exists not only to create Superior Performance Housing environments for urban buyers, but also to lend our experience and viewpoints to everyone with a stake in urban revitalization. We’re active in community planning and governance affairs, providing educational materials and advisory assistance on such issues as planning, zoning and regulation. Our program of on- going research and analysis into Replacement Housing is aimed at raising awareness among all constituencies – homeowners, civic leaders and planners, regulators, educators and the investment community – so that critical issues can be aired and discussed from a base of factual and credible information.

Factors Leading to Replacement