Evaluating Supply Impacts
Abundant housing is an essential component of affordable housing markets, but the impacts of increasing supply may vary according to the type and location of new housing, characteristics of the existing stock, neighborhood demographics, household tenure and financial characteristics, state and local tenant protections, and much more. With these nuances in mind, we study the complex relationships between housing supply and affordability. Our research also illuminates the role of housing in household stability and homelessness, residential and physical mobility, access to opportunity, public health, and other individual and community outcomes.
Other Research Areas
Publications
Brief • 2024
Is housing affordability associated with shorter commutes for low-income workers?
Projects
Housing Initiative | 2021
The state has spent decades allowing its housing problems to worsen, and it will likely take decades of action to solve the resulting crisis. All of this contributes to a grim feeling about California’s future housing trajectory.
Housing Initiative | 2022
At any given moment, thousands of Angelenos experience homelessness, but many thousands more teeter on its brink, living precariously in the region’s unforgiving housing market. This two-year project will evaluate these conditions through a parcel-level, data-oriented lens.