Published: 2018 | Christopher M. Jones, Stephen M. Wheeler, and Daniel M. Kammen | Cogitatio Urban Planning Abstract Consumption-based greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventories have emerged to describe full life cycle contributions of households to climate change at country, state…
Beyond the Double Veto: Land Use Plans as Preemptive Intergovernmental Contracts
Published: 2018 | Christopher S. Elmendorf | UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper Series Abstract The problem of local-government barriers to housing supply is finally enjoying its moment in the sun. For decades, the states did little to remedy this…
California’s Housing Future: Challenges and Opportunities
Published: 2017 | Ben Metcalf et al. | California HCD Abstract But while California’s housing challenges may appear to be overwhelming, California’s Housing Future: Challenges and Opportunities provides the data and analysis to describe the problem and frame the discussion…
How Housing Vouchers Can Help Address California’s Rental Crisis
Published: 2016 | Douglas Rice, Ehren Dohler, Alicia Mazzara | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Abstract California’s severe shortage of affordable housing has hit low-income renters particularly hard. Nearly 1.6 million low-income California renter households paid more than half…
Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing
Published: 2016 | Mac Taylor | Legislative Analyst’s Office Abstract In this follow up to California’s High Housing Costs, we offer additional evidence that facilitating more private housing development in the state’s coastal urban communities would help make housing more…
Increasing Walking, Cycling, and Transit: Improving Californians’ Health, Saving Costs, and Reducing Greenhouse Gases
Published: 2016 | Neil Maizlish, PhD, MPH, Office of Health Equity, California Department of Public Health Abstract This study, like the majority of health impact studies of active transport in the United States and Europe, shows that physical activity due…
A Tool Kit to Close California’s Housing Gap: 3.5 Million Homes by 2025
Published: 2016 | Jonathan Woetzel, Jan Mischke, Shannon Peloquin, Daniel Weisfield | McKinsey Global Institute
California’s High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences
Published: 2015 | Mac Taylor | Legislative Analyst’s Office Abstract The purpose of this report is to provide the Legislature an overview of the state’s complex and expensive housing markets, encompassing both single-family homes and multi-family apartments. We pay particular…
Supply Constraints and Housing Market Dynamics
Published: 2012 | Andrew Paciorek | The Federal Reserve Board Abstract Although the volatility of house prices is often ascribed to demand-side factors, constraints on housing supply have important and little-studied implications for housing dynamics. I illustrate the strong relationship…
Housing Market Effects of Inclusionary Zoning
Published: 2009 | Antonio Bento, Scott Lowe, Gerrit-Jan Knaap and Arnab Chakraborty | Cityscape Abstract This article presents an empirical analysis of the effects of inclusionary zoning policies on housing prices and starts in California during the period from 1988…