Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing in California: How effective are new state planning efforts to reduce segregation

Project Description

This project evaluates the impact of implementation and enforcement of policies to affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH) in local planning processes across California. Using changes to California law to inform state and national fair housing policy, we evaluated the processes and outcomes of Housing Element updates in a sample of mid-sized jurisdictions, selected to capture a wide range of demographic, socioeconomic, and built environment contexts. We assessed whether and how new rules shape the potential siting of low-income and multifamily housing, local constraints to housing production and preservation, and public participation, and how impacts vary across types of jurisdictions.

Status
Ongoing

Funding Source
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Research Team
Shane Phillips