Policy Category: Cost of Building
Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Construction Costs: An Analysis of Prevailing Wages
Since its founding, the Terner Center has conducted research to better understand the factors driving the costs of housing development,…
Making Missing Middle Pencil: The Math Behind Small-Scale Housing Development
This brief examines the financial feasibility of building missing middle housing, such as duplexes, fourplexes, and ten-unit buildings, in California.…
Making It Pencil: the Math Behind Housing Development – 2023 Update
This brief explains the basics of how developers build new housing in California, aiming to serve as a resource for…
Knowledge Exchange Rates: Industrialized Construction in the United Kingdom
In early December, the Terner Center joined the U.S. delegation of individuals working in academia, government, and the built environment…
The Cost to Build New Housing Keeps Rising: State Legislation Aiming to Reverse the Upwards Trend
Authors: Muhammad Alameldin, David Garcia The constraints on housing supply are a significant contributor to the current housing crisis. The…
Scaling Up Off-Site Construction in Southern California
Author: Tyler Pullen, Graduate Student Researcher Advised by: Elizabeth Kneebone, Research Director Carol Galante, Founder and Adviser Read…
Off-Site Construction in Los Angeles County
Read the full paper here. Author: Tyler Pullen, Graduate Student Researcher Advisors: Carolina Reid, Faculty Research Advisor Elizabeth Kneebone, Research…
The Complexity of Financing Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Housing in the United States
Read the full paper here. Authors: Elizabeth Kneebone and Carolina Reid For additional resources, see The Cost of Building Housing Research…
Strategies to Lower Cost and Speed Housing Production: A Case Study of San Francisco’s 833 Bryant Street Project
Author: Nathaniel Decker, Post-Doctoral Scholar Read the full analysis here.
Improving Impact Fees in California: Rethinking the Nexus Studies Requirement
Read the full policy brief here.
