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Policy Category: Rental Housing

Options for Addressing Rent Burdens Through the Tax Code: Considerations for Designing a Renter’s Tax Credit

  The number of cost-burdened renters has hit an all-time high.  The issue is particularly acute for low-income households: for…

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Making It Pencil: Can We Get Housing for Middle-Income Households to Work?

Authors: David Garcia, Ben Metcalf For middle-income Californians, the state’s housing supply and affordability challenges have been more acute in…

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What Small Multifamily Rental Property Owners Tell Us About Implementation of Tenant Protection Laws

Author: Shazia Manji, Research Associate Though roughly 35 percent of the US population lives in rental housing, no comprehensive or…

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Ownership and Management of Small Multifamily Rental Properties

To better understand the small multifamily rental housing market, the Terner Center fielded a survey of the owners and managers…

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New Pathways to Create More Deeply Affordable Housing: Early Lessons from HUD’s Faircloth-to-RAD Program

Authors: Ben Metcalf, Managing Director David Garcia, Policy Director Chris Hacnik, Terner Affiliate Public housing in the United States provides…

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Building Local Institutional Capacity: Lessons Learned from the Emergency Rental Assistance Program

Author: Elizabeth Kneebone Read the full paper here. The paper draws on interviews with 41 stakeholders with insights into the…

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Rising Rents, Not Enough Data: How a Lack of Transparency Threatens to Undermine California’s Rent Cap

  Authors: Alexander Casey Housing Affordability Data Lab Director, Terner Housing Innovation Labs Samantha Gordon Chief Programs Officer, TechEquity Collaborative…

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Taking Housing Solutions from the Near-Term Crisis to the Long-Term Crisis

It has been over a year-and-a-half since the U.S. economy lost over 20 million jobs in only a few months.…

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Findings and Lessons from Two National Surveys of Landlords

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in profound economic hardship for the nation’s renters; the most recent Census Bureau Household Pulse…

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What the Small-Scale Rental Property Market Tells Us About the Rollout of Emergency Rental Assistance

On August 26th, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration’s latest eviction moratorium. While some state and local…

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