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Getting By on Increased Supply: The Portland Experience
Does legalizing multi-family homes (a.k.a. “upzoning”) just boost asset values for speculative...

Black Housing Heroes: Lori Gay
For me, the path to my passion about housing was really economics. In school, I was great at math,...

California Progressivism is Just Getting Started
Anyone unfortunate enough to spend time watching Fox News will come to discover that Berkeley,...

The Housing Crisis Primed California’s COVID19 Tragedy
When COVID-19 began surging in California in late November, the pandemic was attacking an already...

Location, Location, Location: Winning (and Losing) the Housing – Transit Lottery
Do people have innate transportation preferences that they express independently of their living...

Two Great Tastes, Taste Great Together: How Social Housing Closes the Gap
Can California learn from robust public housing development models around the world to fix its...

Black Housing Heroes: Jon Wizard
I was appointed to Monterey County’s planning commission in 2017. Through my initial interest in...

The HomeWork: March 8, 2021
Welcome to the March 8, 2021 Main edition of The HomeWork, the official newsletter of California...

Institutional Investors in California Housing Markets
TL;DR: Following the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2008, large institutional investors, such as...

California YIMBY Joins Asm. Laura Friedman to End Costly Parking Mandates
“Affordable Housing for Humans, Not Unaffordable Parking for Cars” Mandates Add Up to $80,000 Per...