Health in Housing: Exploring the Intersection between Housing and Health Care
This report shows that pairing affordable housing with health care services significantly increases access to primary care and reduces emergency department visits while lowering Medicaid costs.
READ MORE >March 2016
Enterprise; Center for Outcomes Research
affordable housing, public health
Urban Revival? Not for Most Americans
This article looks at the change in urban living for detailed demographic groups based on Census data analyses and confirms that the American population overall continues to suburbanize, while the “urban revival” is heavily skewed toward rich, young, educated Whites without school-age kids.
READ MORE >March 2016
Jed Kolko
gentrification and displacement, social justice
Smart Mobility for Smart Growth: Implementing SB 743 and Complete Streets in San Diego
In 2013, California adopted SB 743, a landmark law that modified the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) so that transportation projects must now be evaluated based on Vehicle Miles Travelled (VMT). The law offers the opportunity to create more balanced transportation systems, with fewer costly impacts on communities. This report looks at how local governments can incorporate the proposed new standards into their planning processes to create better transportation systems.
READ MORE >March 2016
Circulate San Diego; Complete Streets Task Force
transportation
The Affordable Housing Gap Analysis 2016
This report finds that only 31 affordable rental units are available per 100 extremely low-income households in the US.
READ MORE >March 2016
National Low Income Housing Coalition
affordable housing, social justice
US Concentrated Poverty in the Wake of the Great Recession
This analysis looks at how and where extreme poverty has increased over time. Following the recession, the number of poor people living in concentrated poverty in suburbs grew nearly twice as fast as in cities.
READ MORE >March 2016
Brookings Institution
affordable housing, gentrification and displacement, social justice
Household Expenditures and Income
This shows that while this expense has been inching up for everyone, the poorest third of Americans now spend about 50 percent more on all their housing costs than they did back in 1996. The poorest third of families spent more on gas in 2014 than on all of their transportation costs combined in 1996.
READ MORE >March 2016
The Pew Charitable Trusts
affordable housing, social justice, transportation
The Best Complete Streets Policies of 2015
This report is a yearly analysis of newly passed Complete Streets policies, including recognition of the country’s most comprehensive ones.
READ MORE >March 2016
Smart Growth America; National Complete Streets Coalition
public health, transportation, walking and bicycling
Stalled Out: How Empty Parking Spaces Diminish Neighborhood Affordability
This report explores the relationship between unused parking and neighborhood affordability. Minimum parking requirements don’t always reflect real demand, and as parking supply goes up, much of it sits empty — at great opportunity cost.
READ MORE >March 2016
Center for Neighborhood Technology
transit-oriented development
The Consumer Impacts of California’s Low-Carbon Transportation Policies
This report looks at the cumulative impact of California’s climate policies on household transportation costs. It finds that even after accounting for industry compliance costs, California households are projected to save up to $1,500 annually by 2030 thanks to lower annual fuel bills, with low-income households experiencing the largest savings (as a share of income).
READ MORE >March 2016
Consumers Union
climate change, economic opportunity, social justice, transportation
Inclusionary Zoning Has a Scale Problem
This analysis looks at how inclusionary zoning isn’t coming close to meeting the demand for below-market housing nor will it ever be able to do so.
READ MORE >February 2016
CityObservatory
affordable housing
Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing
This report follows up on a previous report on the causes and consequences of California’s housing shortage. It states that given the scope of the problem, the only way to stem displacement on a large scale is to significantly increase the amount of new housing that gets built in California’s desirable coastal communities.
READ MORE >February 2016
Legislative Analyst's Office
affordable housing
Integrating California’s Climate Change and Fiscal Goals: The Known, the Unknown, and the Possible
This award-winning paper argues that tax reform could also be a tool for improving climate incentives for development. One of Chapple’s proposals for reform is to increase the amount of property tax revenue returned to the municipalities based on their performance in building infill and transit-oriented development.
READ MORE >February 2016
Karen Chapple, Ph.D.
climate change, transit-oriented development
How to Make Expensive Cities Affordable for Everyone
This piece looks at the question of how we can make room in highly desirable cities for everyone. Economists, sociologists, and land use scholars weigh in on the debate about the impact of housing supply and demand.
READ MORE >February 2016
The Washington Post: Wonkblog
affordable housing, gentrification and displacement
The Distressed Communities Index
This analysis includes an interactive heat map and analysis for identifying, visualizing, and evaluating economic prosperity and distress spanning nearly every community throughout the country. The “Distressed Communities Index” was built using data from more than 25,000 zip codes and covers 312 million Americans, or 99 percent of the population.
READ MORE >February 2016
Economic Innovation Group
economic opportunity, gentrification and displacement
Half the Oil: Pathways to Reduce Petroleum Use on the West Coast
This report shows how Washington, Oregon, and California could cut their petroleum use in half by 2030.
READ MORE >February 2016
Union of Concerned Scientists
clean energy, climate change
