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The HomeWork: June 09, 2022
Welcome to the June 09, 2022 Main edition of The HomeWork, the official newsletter of California...

Barriers to Prosperity: How Housing Bans Harm California’s Middle-Income Households
Middle-income households in California face a critical dearth of housing options, increasingly...

The State of Hispanic Homeownership
The National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP) recently released the 2021...

The HomeWork: May 20, 2022
Welcome to the May 20, 2022 Main edition of The HomeWork, the official newsletter of California...

Project Homekey: A Model for Addressing Homelessness?
California’s Project Homekey, a new initiative by Governor Newsom to acquire and retrofit hotels...

How Affordable Housing Makes Communities Wealthier
The Urban Institute has a new research brief out on the local economic benefits of affordable...

Do “Area Plans” Harm Affordability? The Case for City-Wide Upzonings
Shane Phillips at the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies analyses the relationship...

The HomeWork: April 27, 2022
Welcome to the April 27, 2022 Main edition of The HomeWork, the official newsletter of California...

How Apartment Bans Keep Americans in the Poor House
A new literature review by Federal Reserve staff economists Jia et al (2022) assesses the evidence...

LA’s Apartment Bans Promote Segregation – and High Housing Costs
Single-Family Zoning in Greater Los Angeles, a new study by Menendian et al (2022) at UC...