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Policy Tag: National

Potential Pathways to Scale Innovative Construction Methods in California

Amid a deepening housing crisis, innovation in housing construction has emerged as a promising pathway to lower costs, shorten development…

California

Improving Utilization in the Housing Choice Voucher Program

Report Authors: Christi Economy, Ryan Finnigan, Susha Roy, Jason M. Ward Researchers from the Terner Center and the RAND Corporation…

Federal Policy

Building Housing in Walkable Neighborhoods: Are U.S. Cities and States Making Progress?

Urban form shapes transportation behavior. Built environment characteristics such as housing density, street connectivity, and proximity to jobs and services…

Climate

Making It Pencil: Can We Get Housing for Middle-Income Households to Work?

Authors: David Garcia, Ben Metcalf For middle-income Californians, the state’s housing supply and affordability challenges have been more acute in…

Graphic with housing development, pencil, calculator, and hard hat
Rental Housing

What Small Multifamily Rental Property Owners Tell Us About Implementation of Tenant Protection Laws

Author: Shazia Manji, Research Associate Though roughly 35 percent of the US population lives in rental housing, no comprehensive or…

Rental Housing

Housing + Climate Policy: Building Equitable Pathways to Sustainability and Affordability

This report looks at the existing research on climate and housing in the U.S in two key areas: how housing…

Affordable Housing

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…

Rental Housing

Achieving Housing Abundance Near Transit

  This demonstrates how U.S. housing and transportation policy encouraged sprawling, car-dependent housing development that has reinforced social and racial…

Climate

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…

Map of U.S. states of awarded EHVS that have are leased up
Homelessness

Incentivizing Housing Production: State Laws from Across the Country to Encourage or Require Municipal Action

Authors: Shazia Manji, Truman Braslaw, Chae Kim, Elizabeth Kneebone*, Carolina Reid | TERNER CENTER Yonah Freemark | URBAN INSTITUTE This…

Map of the United States showing number of laws analyzed per state. California, Oregon, Washington are 10+. Utah, Connecticut, and Maryland are 5-10. Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Florida, Delaware, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine are 2-4. Hawaii, South Dakota, Illinois, New York, and New Jersey are 1. Remaining states are 0.
Regulations and Land Use