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
How to Avert the Next Housing Crisis
Read the full article here … “The Shift, Farha says, will have to start now to “make sure that this time around, unlike in ’08 and ’09, our eyes are wide open, and we are doing everything we can to…
Injustice by design: Confronting the embedded racism of America’s cities
Read the full article … “History is full of examples of urban planning and policy decisions that created the current racial segregation and injustice in America’s cities.” … Read the full article