Policy Tag: Racial and Economic Equity
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…

Estimating COVID-19’s Near-Term Impact on Renters
As some states edge into week six of social distancing stay-at-home orders, and Unemployment Insurance (UI) claims average 5.5 million a week,…

Lessons from the Great Recession for Today: Housing Aid Now!
As I personally hunker down, work from home, and get better at virtual technology as we work to slow the…

Residential Land Use Regulation and the Spatial Mismatch Between Housing and Employment Opportunities in California Cities
by Noah Durst, Michigan State University This paper is part of a working paper series that utilizes the Terner Center California Residential…

Land Use in California
Made possible by funding from the California Department of Housing and Community Development, the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at…

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…

Land Use Politics, Housing Costs, and Segregation in California Cities
By Jonathan Rothwell, PhD, Gallup This paper is part of a working paper series that utilizes the Terner Center California Residential Land Use…

New Amendments to SB 50 Change Approach to Identifying “Sensitive Communities”
On April 24, SB 50 went before the Senate Governance and Finance committee. While it passed the committee 6-1, the resulting…

Estimating the Impact of an Anti-Gouging Rent Cap in California
Last spring, the Terner Center published a brief on a handful of tenant protection ideas in California titled “Finding Common…

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…
