Fort Worth's Mixed-Income Housing Program offers density bonuses, parking reductions, and fee offsets to developers who include affordable units in qualifying projects. Participation is voluntary and administered by the Neighborhood Services Department.
Fort Worth's Mixed-Income Housing Program, woven into the Zoning Ordinance and incentive framework, allows projects that set aside a percentage of units at affordable rents or sale prices to receive density bonuses, height bonuses, parking reductions, and reduced impact or development fees. Targeted areas include downtown, Near Southside, and other urban villages where transit and infrastructure can absorb housing. Neighborhood Services administers compliance, certifying tenant incomes and recording deed restrictions for the affordability period. Participation is voluntary because Texas does not authorize mandatory inclusionary zoning for rental housing under Local Government Code Section 214.905. Developers pursuing the bonus typically combine local incentives with Low Income Housing Tax Credits and federal HOME funding.
Failure to maintain affordability covenants can trigger recapture of incentives, loss of density bonus rights, and Neighborhood Services enforcement under recorded restrictions. Recorded deed restrictions are enforceable in court for the affordability period.
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