Policy Category: Communities and Regions
An Uneven Housing Safety Net: Disparities in the Disbursement of Emergency Rental Assistance and the Role of Local Institutional Capacity
Read the full paper here. Authors: Elizabeth Kneebone, Research Director Quinn Underriner, Data Scientist
The Landscape of Middle-Income Housing Affordability in California
Authors: David Garcia, Policy Director Shazia Manji, Research Assistant Quinn Underriner, Data Scientist Carolina Reid, Faculty Research Advisor Read…
Struggling to Live in the Communities They Serve: How Housing Affordability Impacts School Employees in California
The combination of stagnant incomes and California’s continually rising housing costs weighs heavily on public school employees across the state.…
Evaluating California’s Changing Demographics in Light of New 2020 Census Data Methods
The decennial Census, the one moment every 10 years that we get an updated picture of everyone who lives in…
Adaptive Reuse Challenges and Opportunities in California
Read the full report here. Authors: David Garcia, Policy Director Elliot Kwon, Graduate Student Researcher
Addressing Housing’s Critical Role as Infrastructure
Most Americans are painfully aware that the country’s physical assets—its infrastructure—are in bad shape and need new investments. The potential…
Building a Better Ladder of Housing Opportunity in the United States
Read the full framework brief here. Read the executive summary here.
Trump Is Clinging to an Outdated Version of the Suburbs
This piece was originally published in The Avenue by the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed earlier this week, President…
Lessons from the Great Recession for Today: Housing Aid Now!
As I personally hunker down, work from home, and get better at virtual technology as we work to slow the…
How Housing Supply Shapes Access to Opportunity
This project explores how supply—how much, what kind, and where housing is being built in the nation’s 100 largest metro…
