Published: 2018 | Vicki Been, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O’Regan | NYU Furman Center, NYU Wagner School, and NYU School of Law Abstract Growing numbers of affordable housing advocates and community members are questioning the premise that increasing the supply…
Opposition to Development or Opposition to Developers? Survey Evidence from Los Angeles County on Attitudes towards New Housing
Published: 2018 | Paavo Monkkonen, Michael Manville | Urban Affairs Abstract Opposition to new housing at higher densities is a pervasive problem in planning. Such opposition constrains the housing supply and undermines both affordability and sustainability in growing metropolitan areas.…
How Much Added Housing is Really Needed in California?
Published: 2018 | Dowell Myers, JungHo Park, and Janet Li | USC Sol Price School of Public Policy Abstract Realistically, how much housing do we actually need and how do we know that? In the past, USC planning scholars have…
Growth Amid Dysfunction: An Analysis of Trends in Housing, Migration, and Employment
Published: 2018 | F. Noel Perry, Colleen Kredell, Marcia E. Perry, Stephanie Leonard Abstract Wages have increased and employment opportunities – especially in the Bay Area’s booming tech sector – are attracting migrants from other states and countries. But a…
Examining the Local Land Use Entitlement Process in California to Inform Policy and Process
Published: 2018 | Moira O’Neill, Giulia Gualco-Nelson, Eric Biber Abstract As California’s housing affordability crisis persists, an important question raised is: What laws or regulations might impede housing construction in high-cost areas? To help answer this question, we focused on…
‘Stop‐go’ policy and the restriction of postwar British house‐building
Published: 2018 | Peter M. Scott, James T. Walker | The Economic History Review Abstract From the mid‐1950s to the early 1980s the Treasury and the Bank of England successfully advocated a policy of restricting both private and public sector…
California’s Housing Future: Challenges and Opportunities
Published: 2017 | Ben Metcalf et al. | California HCD Abstract But while California’s housing challenges may appear to be overwhelming, California’s Housing Future: Challenges and Opportunities provides the data and analysis to describe the problem and frame the discussion…
Inclusionary Housing in the United States: Prevalence, Impact, and Practices
Published: 2017 | Emily Thaden, Ruoniu Wang | Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Abstract Inclusionary housing refers to any programs or policies that require or incentivize the creation of affordable housing when new development occurs, including impact or linkage fees…
Producing Affordable Housing in Rising Markets: What Works?
Published: 2016 | Lance Freeman, Jenny Schuetz | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Abstract As cities across the United States have rebounded from the Great Recession, an increasing number of households in urban areas are facing high rent burdens in…
Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing
Published: 2016 | Mac Taylor | Legislative Analyst’s Office Abstract In this follow up to California’s High Housing Costs, we offer additional evidence that facilitating more private housing development in the state’s coastal urban communities would help make housing more…