Policy Tag: National
ADU Construction Financing: Opportunities to Expand Access for Homeowners
Authors: Richard K. Green, Director and Lusk Chair in Real Estate, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate Ben Metcalf,…
Biden Administration Steps Forward for Housing Supply
On May 16th, the White House released a plan to address the nation’s critical housing supply shortage. This plan—which included…
An Uneven Housing Safety Net: Disparities in the Disbursement of Emergency Rental Assistance and the Role of Local Institutional Capacity
Read the full paper here. Authors: Elizabeth Kneebone, Research Director Quinn Underriner, Data Scientist
Reducing Bias in Home Appraisals: The Roles for Policy and Technology
An appraisal assigns economic value to a home and is a key part of the process of selling, buying, or…
Evaluating California’s Changing Demographics in Light of New 2020 Census Data Methods
The decennial Census, the one moment every 10 years that we get an updated picture of everyone who lives in…
Addressing Homelessness Through Hotel Conversions
Read the full report here. Authors: Carolina Reid, Faculty Research Advisor Shazia Manji, Research Assistant Hayden Rosenberg, Graduate…
Commercial Zoning Paper Series
Is there an alternative future for the strip mall? Has COVID-19 created an opportunity to adapt underutilized commercial and retail…
Taking Housing Solutions from the Near-Term Crisis to the Long-Term Crisis
It has been over a year-and-a-half since the U.S. economy lost over 20 million jobs in only a few months.…
Findings and Lessons from Two National Surveys of Landlords
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in profound economic hardship for the nation’s renters; the most recent Census Bureau Household Pulse…
What the Small-Scale Rental Property Market Tells Us About the Rollout of Emergency Rental Assistance
On August 26th, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration’s latest eviction moratorium. While some state and local…
