Policy Tag: Data Resources
Affordability for Whom? Introducing an Inclusive Affordability Measure
This paper presents a new approach to measuring housing affordability—one that seeks to provide a better indicator of what counties…
Modeling Inclusionary Zoning’s Impact on Housing Production in Los Angeles: Tradeoffs and Policy Implications
Guest author Shane Phillips from the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies has authored a paper that uses…
Stretched to Capacity: The Challenges Facing California’s Homelessness Service Providers
Author: Ryan Finnigan In recent years, nonprofit homelessness organizations in California have substantially increased the breadth and scale of the…
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…
California’s Prohousing Designation Program: Rewarding City and County Policies that Boost Housing Supply
In this paper, we examine data for 10 early adopters of California's Prohousing Designation Program, and assess whether the policies…
How Homelessness Programs Are Serving Four Populations in California
California’s affordable housing shortage and enduring poverty are major drivers of the state’s homelessness crisis,1 but efforts to resolve or…
The Housing Potential for Land Owned by Faith-Based Organizations and Colleges
This paper updates our 2020 report with expanded data on the potential for development on land owned by faith-based organizations…
Streamlining Multifamily Housing Production in California: Progress Implementing SB 35
SB 35 was enacted in 2018 to streamline multifamily infill development in jurisdictions that are not meeting their housing production…
The First Step Is The Hardest: California’s Sliding Homeownership Ladder
The paper examines the erosion of access to homeownership and the role that rising housing prices play in the ability…
Using Emergency Housing Vouchers to Address Homelessness
This analysis is published as part of the Housing Crisis Research Collaborative. Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic increased the urgency to…
