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Many descendants of California homeowners enjoy a significant perk that keeps their property tax bill low. Part of that is thanks to Proposition 13, which has strictly limited property tax increases since 1978. But they also benefit from an additional…

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: “Developers in my city are only building luxury housing. They’re not building anything that ordinary people can afford.” Too often, the observation, “Developers are only building luxury housing,” reflects a lack of…

If you’ve hung around the CityLab site, sat through a City Council meeting, or hobnobbed with a housing developer, you’ve probably run across the term “inclusionary zoning.” You might even think you know what it means. But wait, do you?…

By nearly every measure, the American housing sector is broken. For decades, city, state and federal policies have contributed to rising rents, falling subsidies and the systematic shift of homeownership to older, richer and whiter Americans. That’s the undeniable upshot…

Business leaders up and down the state say California’s expensive housing makes it challenging to recruit new workers — and to keep existing employees here. USC public policy professor Raphael Bostic said if housing costs continue to push certain workers…

The lights are flashing, ever redder and more urgent, on the Bay Area’s housing crisis. How bright do they have to get before our state policy-makers calibrate their actions to the scale of our need? Further evidence of the metastasizing…

Homeownership is the primary driver of economic wealth in our country. If California’s housing and poverty advocates really want to achieve their vision of an equitable and prosperous society, they must include not just a drive for public and subsidized…