This report outlines 12 state transportation policy solutions either passed legislatively or instituted through administrative action that expand transparency and accountability, boost state and local… Read More »
The Distressed Communities Index
This analysis includes an interactive heat map and analysis for identifying, visualizing, and evaluating economic prosperity and distress spanning nearly every community throughout the country. The “Distressed… Read More »
How to Make Expensive Cities Affordable for Everyone
This piece looks at the question of how we can make room in highly desirable cities for everyone. Economists, sociologists, and land use scholars weigh… Read More »
Another Inconvenient Truth: To Achieve Climate Change Goals, California Must Remove Barriers to Sustainable Land Use
This report looks at how the Bay Area must aggressively increase the production of housing and focus on Priority Development Areas to make it possible for more… Read More »
Mapping Neighborhood Change in Los Angeles County
As part of a joint project with UC Berkeley, researchers at UCLA have created an interactive mapping tool that shows where gentrification and displacement are… Read More »
Expanding Housing Supply in California: A New Framework for State Land Use Regulation
The Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley analyzes Governor Brown’s Streamlining Affordable Housing Approvals proposal, plus looks at similar legislation in Massachusetts known… Read More »
About That $17 Billion Water Project: Delta Tunnels 101
This piece breaks down the controversial $17 billion water project that would build two 30-mile water tunnels in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Advancing Equity in California Climate Policy: A New Social Contract for a Low-Carbon Transition
This report sets out to guide the ongoing climate policy conversation in the state by identifying ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while ensuring that low-income… Read More »
Autonomous Vehicles: Hype and Potential
This piece, authored by the well-known urbanist Peter Calthorpe and by Jerry Walters of Fehr & Peers, looks at how autonomous vehicles may shape our… Read More »
Equity in Building Resilience in Adaptation Planning
The NAACP released a set of resilience indicators to guide communities toward integrating an equity lens as they design climate adaptation plans so that protection… Read More »
