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View In: California HousingThe Othering & Belonging Institute (OBI) at UC Berkeley has a new report out on zoning in the Sacramento region, and their findings are a stark reminder of the racist and classist impacts of exclusionary, single-unit-only zoning. Key takeaways: Stephen Menendian et al (2022) report that zoning code...

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View In: California HousingFeeding LA's Homeless Industrial Complex Authored by MN Gordon via EconomicPrism.com, Election season 2022 is in full bloom.  Activists, with clipboards and ballot initiatives, are abundantly flowering outside supermarkets.  They want signatures – your signature – in support of new legislation that woul...

San José Spotlight
View In: California HousingIt’s hard to build affordable housing in San Jose, so city officials conducted a study to understand why. It found the three main barriers to building affordable housing are construction costs, the permitting process and complying with development regulations such as the required amount of parking space...

San José Spotlight
View In: California HousingBarriers to COVID-related rent relief have placed thousands of renters in Santa Clara County and throughout California in desperate circumstances as they struggle to avoid eviction. A new survey documents common problems facing tenants in Santa Clara County and 26 other counties in California, usin...

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View In: California HousingWhat if the housing shortage was behind Western nations’ most difficult political and social problems today? Such is the compelling argument advanced in a brilliant […] The post Is the Global Urban Housing Shortage Public Policy Enemy #1? appeared first on California YIMBY.

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View In: California HousingLA Is Spending Up To $837,000 Per Unit To House The Homeless Are you wondering why so many people are defecting from places like California in favor of tax havens like Florida? Look no further for your answer, which likely lies in how states are spending their tax money. Take Los Angeles, for example...