Policy Tag: California
Lessons in Land Use Reform: Best Practices for Successful Upzoning
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2019 California Housing Legislation Round Up
The 2019 California legislative season recently came to a close, and several promising housing bills have now been signed into…
Land Use Politics, Housing Costs, and Segregation in California Cities
By Jonathan Rothwell, PhD, Gallup This paper is part of a working paper series that utilizes the Terner Center California Residential Land Use…
Residential Impact Fees in California
Author: Hayley Raetz, David Garcia, and Nathaniel Decker Release Date: August 2020 Read the paper here.
Curbing Runaway Rents: Assessing the Impact of a Rent Cap in California
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California Needs to Build More Apartments
By Jenny Schuetz, PhD, the Brookings Institution, Metropolitan Policy Program and Cecile Murray, MSCAPP, University of Chicago This paper is part of a working…
Comparing Perceptions and Practice: Why Better Land Use Data is Critical to Ground Truth Legal Reform
This is the third installment in a working paper series that utilizes the Terner Center California Residential Land Use Survey to assess…
No Place Like Zone: Two Ways California Policymakers Can Encourage Housing Affordability Through the Opportunity Zone Program
Ever since the federal government launched the Opportunity Zone (OZ) program, many questions about the potential benefits and drawbacks have been raised.…
Regulating ADUs in California: Local Approaches & Outcomes
By Dr. Deirdre Pfeiffer, Associate Professor at Arizona State University and Visiting Scholar at the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate This…
New Amendments to SB 50 Change Approach to Identifying “Sensitive Communities”
On April 24, SB 50 went before the Senate Governance and Finance committee. While it passed the committee 6-1, the resulting…
