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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
RENTAL HOUSING![Graphic with housing development, pencil, calculator, and hard hat]()
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
HOMELESSNESS![Map of U.S. states of awarded EHVS that have are leased up]()
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…
REGULATIONS AND LAND USE![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.]()
