Historic Preservation

The Community Housing Initiatives is a nonprofit provider of affordable housing. Latest news, rental information in Iowa are included in the Community Housing Initiatives website.

The Downtown Redevelopment In Burlington, Iowa is composed of five reports by the Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities. The reports include an analysis of case studies and on redevelopment and historic preservation.

Register listing does not necessarily increase economic value of buildings, instead listing is a tool that can assure the economic value of historic preservation takes its rightful place among values that historic buildings contribute to communities.

Gateway Redevelopment Group was formed by private nonprofit. The goal of the group is to save the abandoned historic structures in Davenport’s Hamburg Historic District.

The paper asserts the significance of historic neighborhoods that can provide homes and affordable housing for families and solve the insufficient affordable housing problem.

The report demonstrates the results of a survey about the problems associated with long-term population loss and provides methods to use preservation and related tools to stabilize and revitalize challenged communities.

The Iowa’s Historic Preservation and Cultural and Entertainment District Tax Credit was established to assist the costs of rehabilitating historic buildings, maintain spaces of buildings, and revitalize surrounding neighborhoods.

The Main Street Development Loan Fund is a loan program and is supported by Preservation Iowa, a nonprofit. The nonprofit focuses on redevelopment and historic preservation.

The Report to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation seeks to establish indicators for measuring the economic impact of historic preservation over time.

This case study provides an overview of Dubuque's Millwork District Revitalization Project. Also included is the executive summary of the master plan for the project in addition to the complete master plan.

Historic preservation is part of the solution to many urban problems, such as housing, economic development, education, neighborhood stabilization, downtown revitalization, smart growth, and others. The “Planning for the Future, Using the Past” presents ten themes for improving the future of Washington D.C.

The Historic Millwork District Master Plan, approved in 2009, is a historic preservation redevelopment plan. The Plan has received many recognitions and demonstrated ways to generate high economic value with low environmental impact.

The UniverCity Neighborhood Partnership is a program designed to ensure the University of Iowa campus and neighborhoods surrounding downtown remain safe, affordable and attractive places for renters and homeowners.