Published: 2017 | Burak Güneralpa, Yuyu Zhouc, Diana Ürge-Vorsatzd, Mukesh Guptad, Sha Yue, Pralit L. Patele, Michail Fragkiasf, Xiaoma Lic,g,h, and Karen C. Seto | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Abstract Although the scale of impending urbanization is…
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…
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…
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…
Do Strict Land Use Regulations Make Metropolitan Areas More Segregated by Income?
Published: 2016 | Michael C. Lens and Paavo Monkkonen | American Planning Association Journal Abstract Income segregation has risen in each of the last four decades in U.S. metropolitan areas, which can have lifelong impacts on the health, economic productivity,…
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.