Thousands of people shelter in vehicles as makeshift housing every night in Los Angeles. Vehicle living is not ideal for those who live in vehicles nor for cities, many of which have responded by enacting ordinances to make it illegal or difficult to sleep in vehicles.
In collaboration with MapCraft Labs, this project will identify major barriers to the adoption of shared-equity rental housing, as well as the policy reforms and financial instruments that could be deployed to expand it.
More than 50 years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, households of color and other marginalized groups continue to face unequal access to housing. This two-year project will look into California's progress in reversing long-standing patterns of segregation.
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.
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.
Following the 2017 passage of Assembly Bill 686, the state of California has perhaps the most expansive approach to Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) in the country. This project assesses the impact of California’s implementation and enforcement of AFFH on local planning processes.
