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Policy Director David Garcia was interviewed for an article in the Los Angeles Times on Senate Bill 1120, which would allow for existing single-family homes to be converted into duplexes and for single-family parcels to be subdivided into two lots. The article also cites our research brief on the bill.

A commentary in Forbes features the results of the survey of the experiences of small landlords during the COVID-19 pandemic that we conducted with the National Association for Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP).

Faculty Director Carol Galante has authored an opinion piece titled Now Is the Time to Embrace Density as part of The America We Need series published by The New York Times.

Carol Galante, Faculty Director of the Terner Center, and Barry Zigas, Principal of Zigas & Associates and a Senior Fellow at Consumer Federation of America, have co-authored an op-ed published in Housing Wire on April 29th, 2020.

Our Managing Director Ben Metcalf authored an op-ed offering four steps to fix the California's housing crisis in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Today, the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley -- in partnership with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) -- announced the launch of the Housing Lab, a new accelerator program that aims to nurture bold new approaches to the nation’s housing challenge.

U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (CA) has introduced a new bill to provide tax credits to renters paying more than 30% of their income on rent. The bill's summary fact sheet as well as press following the announcement have cited the influence of a 2016 Terner Center report which proposes a Federal Assistance in Rental (FAIR) tax credit for low-income renters.

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation announced today that it has awarded $750,000 in grant funding to the Terner Center for Housing Innovation in order to catalyze solutions for the Bay Area's affordable housing crisis.

The David Baker Architects has posted a blog titled "The New Multifamily Modular" unpacking of the specifics of modular building that the firm has discovered over years of experience as a pioneer in the multifamily modular field in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Terner Center work on off-site multifamily construction is used to show the potential benefits of using this bulding method.

On Monday, October 2, Faculty Director Carol Galante testified at the Select Committee hearing on Housing Affordability for the Middle and Working Class in Sacramento, hosted by Assemblymember Todd Garcia. Her testimony was featured in a story from Capital Public Radio by Ben Bradford.