This publication reviews past research on California wildfires' housing impacts, analyzes the 2018 Camp Fire's long-term effects, examines L.A. fire-affected neighborhoods, and highlights key lessons.
While there is no shortage of debate on Measure S, the public dialogue has been relatively uninformed about the likely consequences of the Measure. Our best assessment of the available research and data leads us to conclude that if the measure passes, rents and property costs in the Los Angeles region are likely to rise faster than they are already.
Rises in housing costs are outstripping income gains, and residents are being pushed out of central city neighborhoods that have been affordable to low-income workers for decades. How can cities actively curb displacement?
The TTI estimated that traffic congestion cost the Bay Area economy – by some measures the nation’s most vibrant regional economy – a staggering $3.1 billion in 2014. But do such measures really capture how congestion and the conditions that give rise to it affect regional economies?
Income segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas has been rising for the last forty years. Using new statistical measures for the 95 biggest cities in the US, we investigate the relationship between land use regulations and segregation by income.
The American elderly population is growing at unprecedented rates, six times faster than the rest of the population. In a few short years, they will account for 24% of the population, yet cities have not planned for this silver tsunami.
This report provides a conceptual framework for thinking about how more people can live and work near transit, near the major regional investments that county residents are paying for, in ways that maximize social benefits and minimize social costs.
Eliminating the Mortgage Interest Deduction would generate new revenue for the federal government — in 2014, it cost the U.S. Treasury more than $100 billion. An expansion of such magnitude might allow us to cover all the households in LA County eligible for housing subsidies.
Ballot box growth revolts, where residents force a referendum to restrict new development, can have longlasting repercussions for communities. Such revolts are rare, but they shed light on long-standing discontent with local land use planning that is important for policymakers and planners to acknowledge and understand.
The state of California implements the Regional Housing Needs Assessment program as the central pillar of its statewide housing policy, the Housing Element Law. It determines “fair share” allocations of a region’s forecasted growth in households for each city and county, and directs local jurisdictions to accommodate the allocations in its general plans and zoning capacity.
