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Sustainable Communities or the Next Urban Renewal?

Internet Editor

June 25th 2021

Inadequate housing supply in California’s most expensive metro areas drives a statewide housing crisis that challenges climate policy implementation, fair housing goals, and poverty reduction. Many scholars and policy makers agree that increasing dense infill transit-oriented residential development (TOD) in high-cost metro areas could address this housing crisis while also mitigating the impacts of climate ...

Leveraging California’s Hospitals for Housing Preservation: Progress and Opportunities

Internet Editor

June 25th 2021

As part of their role as anchor institutions rooted in place, hospitals have invested in communities for decades. While past efforts have been piecemeal, hospitals are now driving strategies to finance, build, and preserve affordable housing. This article looks at why and how hospitals have contributed to housing preservation strategies ...

Making It Work: Legal Foundations for Administrative Reform of California’s Housing Framework

Internet Editor

June 25th 2021

Since 1980, California has had an ambitious planning framework on the books to make local governments accommodate their fair share of regionally needed housing. The framework long relied, however, on a rickety and complicated conveyor belt for converting regional housing targets into actual production. Superintending the conveyor belt was an administrative entity, the Department of ...

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