COVID-19 Impacts on Los Angeles-Based Community Development Corporations Brief

2025-06-01T14:35:55-07:00

The purpose of this research was to understand the impacts of COVID-19 on Los Angeles Based Community Development Corporations (CDCs) and highlight specific strategies for organizational resilience during unprecedented times. This research aimed to study the experience of Los Angeles CDCs when facing an unprecedented crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 Impacts on Los Angeles-Based Community Development Corporations Brief2025-06-01T14:35:55-07:00

“I Would, If Only I Could” How Cities Can Use California’s Housing Element to Overcome Neighborhood Resistance to New Housing

2025-06-01T14:35:58-07:00

An explanation of how city councils and planning departments can use the housing element law to increase housing supply, but find themselves constrained by neighborhood-level opposition to change.

“I Would, If Only I Could” How Cities Can Use California’s Housing Element to Overcome Neighborhood Resistance to New Housing2025-06-01T14:35:58-07:00

Regional Housing Needs Assessment Cover Letter

2025-06-01T14:35:47-07:00

This review and cover letter was written to provide background and suggestions for Auditors Tilden and Lozano to consider in relation to the audit commissioned by the Joint Legislative Audit Committee at the request of Members Glazer, Newman, Bauer-Kahan, Portantino, Muratsuchi, Stern, and Bates.

Regional Housing Needs Assessment Cover Letter2025-06-01T14:35:47-07:00

What Gets Built on Sites That Cities “Make Available” for Housing?

2025-06-01T14:35:52-07:00

In this report, we analyze local plans and housing development rates in nearly 100 cities in the San Francisco Bay Area. We assess production on sites presented by cities to the state government as apt for housing, as well as elsewhere in the city.

What Gets Built on Sites That Cities “Make Available” for Housing?2025-06-01T14:35:52-07:00

End of the pandemic, but not renter distress

2025-06-01T14:35:52-07:00

This research brief is a follow-up to a 2020 survey and report that found one in five Los Angeles County tenants struggling to pay rent during the early months of the pandemic. As the economy reopens, many tenants continue to struggle. California should act quickly to deliver assistance directly to renters. 

End of the pandemic, but not renter distress2025-06-01T14:35:52-07:00

Anti-Displacement & Community Ownership in Koreatown: Acquisition-Rehabilitation of Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing

2025-06-01T14:35:40-07:00

Nathan Keibler conducts a market analysis, financial feasibility analysis, and funding source summary for naturally occurring affordable housing preservation in Koreatown.

Anti-Displacement & Community Ownership in Koreatown: Acquisition-Rehabilitation of Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing2025-06-01T14:35:40-07:00

A Primer on California’s “Builder’s Remedy” for Housing-Element Noncompliance

2025-06-01T14:35:41-07:00

Since 1990, California allows developers of affordable housing projects to bypass zoning codes and general plans of cities out of compliance with the Housing Element Law. Why aren't there more builder's remedy projects?

A Primer on California’s “Builder’s Remedy” for Housing-Element Noncompliance2025-06-01T14:35:41-07:00
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