Policy Tag: Construction Costs
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.

Revisiting California’s Density Bonus Law: Analysis of SB 1085 and AB 2345
Author: David Garcia, Policy Director Read the full paper here.

Four Tools for Stimulating Economic Recovery Through New Homebuilding
Authored in collaboration with Sarah Karlinsky, SPUR High housing prices threaten California’s future. Today, over three million California renters spend…

The Hard Costs of Construction: Recent Trends in Labor and Materials Costs for Apartment Buildings in California
Read the paper here. For additional resources, see The Cost of Building Housing Research Series.

The Costs of Affordable Housing Production: Insights from California’s 9% Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program
Read the paper here. See the Technical Appendix: The Limitations of Regression Analysis here. For more resources, see The Cost…

The Cost of Building Housing Series
The Terner Center for Housing Innovation has launched an in-depth research series that examines the array of costs associated with…

Built-Out Cities? How California Cities Restrict Housing Production through Prohibition and Process
By Paavo Monkkonen, Michael Lens, and Michael Manville, UCLA This paper is part of a working paper series that utilizes…

Making It Pencil: The Math Behind Housing Development
Author: David Garcia, Policy Director Release Date: August 2019 Read the paper here. Related Work:…

Residential Impact Fees in California
Author: Hayley Raetz, David Garcia, and Nathaniel Decker Release Date: August 2020 Read the paper here.
