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 »
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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 »
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 »
GreenTRIP Connect
City officials, developers, and community members can use this online tool to instantly calculate how smart location, affordable homes, and traffic reduction strategies can reduce… Read More »
What Makes Housing Too Expensive
This article compiles various sources and looks at solutions to the urban housing affordability crisis. It proposes that government regulation for producing new housing must… Read More »
The Affordable Housing Gap Analysis 2016
This report finds that only 31 affordable rental units are available per 100 extremely low-income households in the US.
US Concentrated Poverty in the Wake of the Great Recession
This analysis looks at how and where extreme poverty has increased over time. Following the recession, the number of poor people living in concentrated poverty… Read More »
Household Expenditures and Income
This shows that while this expense has been inching up for everyone, the poorest third of Americans now spend about 50 percent more on all… Read More »
Health in Housing: Exploring the Intersection between Housing and Health Care
This report shows that pairing affordable housing with health care services significantly increases access to primary care and reduces emergency department visits while lowering Medicaid… Read More »
