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Dynamics of homelessness in urban America

Published: 2017 | Chris Glynn and Emily B. Fox Abstract For each metro under study, we investigate the relationship between increases in the Zillow Rent Index and increases in the homeless population. Sensitivity of inference to potential improvements in the…

Developing a New Methodology for Analyzing Potential Displacement

Published: 2017 | Karen Chapple, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Paul Waddell, Daniel Chatman, Paul Ong | The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Abstract In 2008, California passed Senate Bill 375, requiring metropolitan planning organizations to develop Sustainable Communities Strategies as…

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…

Producing Affordable Housing in Rising Markets: What Works?

Published: 2016 | Lance Freeman, Jenny Schuetz | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Abstract As cities across the United States have rebounded from the Great Recession, an increasing number of households in urban areas are facing high rent burdens in…

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…

Housing Development Toolkit

Published: 2016 | Obama Administration Abstract Over the past three decades, local barriers to housing development have intensified, particularly in the high-growth metropolitan areas increasingly fueling the national economy. The accumulation of such barriers – including zoning, other land use…

An integrated perspective on the future of mobility

Published: 2016 | Eric Hannon, Colin McKerracher, Itamar Orlandi, and Surya Ramkumar | McKinsey Global Institute Abstract A number of social, economic, and technological trends will work together to disrupt mobility, potentially creating three new urban models by 2030.