California’s Land Use Working Paper Series was developed to examine California’s housing affordability crisis which has prompted public leaders and citizens alike to examine the policies and practices that shape the state’s housing supply. Authored by leading researchers from across the country, these papers use the Terner Center’s California Residential Land Use Data Set, published in December 2018, to better understand the implications of California’s local and state policies on the production of housing, including what kind of housing gets built, who gets to live in that housing, based on current and historic patterns, and the connections between housing and employment opportunities.
Land use policy not only shapes the supply of housing in a region, but is also deeply intertwined with sustainability, economic mobility, and access to neighborhoods and opportunity.
Made possible by funding from the Department of Housing and Community Development, in 2017 the Terner Center launched a survey of planners across the state to learn more about local land use policy contexts in California.
Read the papers: California Land Use Working Paper Series
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