Policy Tag: Housing Finance
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…
Addressing Housing’s Critical Role as Infrastructure
Most Americans are painfully aware that the country’s physical assets—its infrastructure—are in bad shape and need new investments. The potential…
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.
COVID-19 and California’s Vulnerable Renters
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues unabated, another rent day has come and gone. But August 1st marked a new chapter in…
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…
A Plan to Keep Renters Housed Through the COVID-19 Recovery
With unemployment resulting from the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic soaring and the $484 billion stimulus package passed last week…
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…
How Housing Supply Shapes Access to Opportunity
This project explores how supply—how much, what kind, and where housing is being built in the nation’s 100 largest metro…
