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In the newly published policy paper and blog released earlier today, the Terner Center proposes using the tax code to ease the cost burdens of U.S. renters.

In a recent conversation with SF Chronicle reporter, Kevin Fagan, who specializes in homelessness reporting, Faculty Director Carol Galante weighs in on the benefits of potential modular construction and micro-units in San Francisco.

Following his release of the Housing Highlights from the 2015 American Community Survey (ACS), Jed Kolko was quoted in a segment of The Real Deal magazine on the latest U.S. housing data trends.

In their recent piece, U.S. Households Make Long-Awaited Gains in Housing Recovery, the Wall Street Journal cites Terner Center's Senior Fellow Jed Kolko on his analysis of the 2015 American Community Survey.

“If you’re an architect and you’re thinking about 'What am I designing to and what kind of budget do I need to be meeting in order to produce a product that’s actually going to get built,' you can do some high-level calculations to get to the probability that what you’re designing can happen,” says Faculty Director Carol Galante in her recent interview with journalist, Nate Berg at Architect Magazine.

According to Faculty Director Carol Galante, in order to address the local, state and national housing affordability crisis, it is important to understand the premise that "supply matters, and we need to expand housing supply in equitable and environmentally sustainable ways."

Although the exact effect of Measure C on San Francisco’s housing supply is still in speculation, Slate's Moneybox believes that the Housing Development Dashboard may be able to offer some insight. One theory, which the author coined the "Indiana Jones Theory of Housing Regulation" suggests a creation of a deadline boom, a phenomenon where builders rush to get approval before the new laws can take effect

According to a recent article from Curbed SF, more than two-thirds of voters approved the local Measure C, which grants city legislators the power to raise or lower the minimum requirements for affordable housing development.

In a recent interview, Faculty Director Carol Galante shares with Donna Kimura, a deputy editor of Affordable Housing Finance (AHF), her excitement about a new online tool from the Terner Center that was released early last week. This tool, better known as the Housing Development Dashboard, shows how policy changes can affect affordable housing production by utilizing data from four sample cities in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Check out: "What Will Increase Development in Bay Area? Ask This New Tool" by Next City as the author explores the various components and mechanisms behind Terner Center's new Housing Development Dashboard released last week.