Policy Tag: Housing Finance
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…
Making It Pencil: The Math Behind Housing Development
Author: David Garcia, Policy Director Release Date: August 2019 Read the paper here. Related Work:…
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.…
Calibrating Policy to Ensure Success – An Analysis of Assembly Bill 1485
The 2019 California legislative session has been a busy one for housing thus far. Dozens of bills have been introduced…
The End of the Mortgage “Dark Age”: Fintech and the Equity Implications of Disruptive Technology in the U.S. Residential Mortgage Market
As part of our commitment to the education and professional development of UC Berkeley students, the Terner Center highlights exceptional…
