Muhammad Alameldin

How do other cities provide housing?

A globetrotting new whitepaper from SPUR looks at policy regimes in other countries that manage demand for housing with measurably more success than California. Three city profiles help give a sense of the bigger picture. Key takeaways: Vienna funds, builds,…

How Legalizing Homes Can Integrate the Bay Area

In an early installment of The Homework, we covered the first few research briefs in a new series from UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute (OBI) on the Bay Area’s deeply entrenched residential segregation. In this final episode of the…

This One Cool Trick Turns One Home Into Four

Last month, we covered an impressive new study from UCLA showing the market potential for over 1 million new homes in California simply by allowing fourplexes as the minimum density for every residential lot statewide. Now UC Berkeley’s Terner Center…

“Local Control:” 5 Decades of Segregation

We know local land-use regulations can produce racial segregation as an outcome, but how strong is the effect? In a new paper, UC Merced scholar Jessica Trounstine finds empirical evidence that impact and intent are strongly linked when it comes…

Opinion: We Must Plan Racial Justice In Our Cities

Read the full article here … “The very people who support progressive change elsewhere use local control of land use to prevent structural changes in their communities that would advance the cause of racial justice. These changes are essential if…

The Hidden Toll of California’s Black Exodus

Read the full article here … “Black residents since 1990 — a 5,100% jump mirrored by increases around the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta, Southern California’s Inland Empire and the Central Valley. At the same time, Black renters have been disproportionately forced…

Here’s Why You Should Support That New Building Going Up in Your Neighborhood

Read the full article here … “Insisting that all housing be single-family is an exclusionary zoning tactic: It blocks the types of housing that would be more accessible to lower-income residents, including minorities and immigrants.” Read the full article here

It’s Time for Architects to Accept Responsibility

Read the full article here … “Architecture is about more than buildings. As a field, it plays a key role in the health, safety, and welfare of the public — or at least it should.” Read the full article here