As the Terner Center has previously documented, the cost of building housing in California has skyrocketed in recent years, with hard costs such as materials and labor as the biggest cost drivers.…
Accessory dwelling units (ADUs) are an important and increasingly popular strategy for adding to the supply of housing in California, particularly by creating lower-cost units in single-family neighborhoods. Recent statewide legalization of…
Expanding the construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs)—a secondary, often backyard home on a single-family lot—offers benefits to individual homeowners and has the potential to increase the supply of affordable homes and…
With housing prices out of reach for many, California is facing the need to find new ways to create housing affordable to middle-income households. While there are housing subsidy programs for low-income…
Last year, the California Housing Opportunity and More Efficiency (“HOME”) Act, also known as Senate Bill 9, was signed into law, enabling homeowners to split their single-family residential lot into two separate…
On May 16th, the White House released a plan to address the nation’s critical housing supply shortage. The plan’s “all of government” approach moves forward a wide range of federal levers to…