One to Four: The Market Potential of Fourplexes in California’s Single-Family Neighborhoods

2025-10-15T06:03:15-07:00

An estimate of the market-feasible production if the state were to allow fourplexes on single-family parcels and analysis of how these impacts vary across regions and cities.

One to Four: The Market Potential of Fourplexes in California’s Single-Family Neighborhoods2025-10-15T06:03:15-07:00

“I Would, If Only I Could” How Cities Can Use California’s Housing Element to Overcome Neighborhood Resistance to New Housing

2025-10-15T06:03:12-07:00

An explanation of how city councils and planning departments can use the housing element law to increase housing supply, but find themselves constrained by neighborhood-level opposition to change.

“I Would, If Only I Could” How Cities Can Use California’s Housing Element to Overcome Neighborhood Resistance to New Housing2025-10-15T06:03:12-07:00

Value Capture Reconsidered: What if L.A. was Actually Building Too Little?

2025-10-15T06:03:08-07:00

Should cities only allow new housing on the condition that the developers of that housing deliver public benefits in return? This idea is often called “value capture”, and is used to justify — among other things — various forms of inclusionary zoning.

Value Capture Reconsidered: What if L.A. was Actually Building Too Little?2025-10-15T06:03:08-07:00

Regional Housing Needs Assessment Cover Letter

2025-10-15T06:03:02-07:00

This review and cover letter was written to provide background and suggestions for Auditors Tilden and Lozano to consider in relation to the audit commissioned by the Joint Legislative Audit Committee at the request of Members Glazer, Newman, Bauer-Kahan, Portantino, Muratsuchi, Stern, and Bates.

Regional Housing Needs Assessment Cover Letter2025-10-15T06:03:02-07:00

What Gets Built on Sites That Cities “Make Available” for Housing?

2025-10-15T06:03:07-07:00

In this report, we analyze local plans and housing development rates in nearly 100 cities in the San Francisco Bay Area. We assess production on sites presented by cities to the state government as apt for housing, as well as elsewhere in the city.

What Gets Built on Sites That Cities “Make Available” for Housing?2025-10-15T06:03:07-07:00

A Review of California’s Process for Determining, and Accommodating Regional Housing Needs

2025-10-15T06:02:57-07:00

This background paper is meant to help the California State Auditor and legislators better understand the limitations of the RHNA process and areas for improvement.

A Review of California’s Process for Determining, and Accommodating Regional Housing Needs2025-10-15T06:02:57-07:00
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