Policy Tag: Zoning Reform
Built-Out Cities? How California Cities Restrict Housing Production through Prohibition and Process
By Paavo Monkkonen, Michael Lens, and Michael Manville, UCLA This paper is part of a working paper series that utilizes…
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…
Key Remaining Questions Following New Amendments to SB 50
Senate Bill 50—San Francisco Senator Scott Wiener’s high-profile effort to reform local zoning in transit- and job-rich areas—is back for…
Land Use in California
Made possible by funding from the California Department of Housing and Community Development, the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at…
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…
California Needs to Build More Apartments
By Jenny Schuetz, PhD, the Brookings Institution, Metropolitan Policy Program and Cecile Murray, MSCAPP, University of Chicago This paper is part of a working…
Comparing Perceptions and Practice: Why Better Land Use Data is Critical to Ground Truth Legal Reform
This is the third installment in a working paper series that utilizes the Terner Center California Residential Land Use Survey to assess…
Regulating ADUs in California: Local Approaches & Outcomes
By Dr. Deirdre Pfeiffer, Associate Professor at Arizona State University and Visiting Scholar at the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate This…
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…
Statewide Goals, Local Tools: Case Studies in Affordable Housing Development in California
Cities have an important role to play in addressing California’s affordable housing shortage, and local policies such as community land…