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.
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.
This project uses parcel-level data in California to identify the effects of ADU production on a city’s rents and housing prices, and to isolate the impacts of ADU legalization (i.e., the option value created for existing parcels) on land values.
This project explores how increasing housing capacity near LA Metro stations can boost transit ridership, expand housing supply, and reduce environmental impacts. It includes a literature review and seven case studies representing diverse station-area conditions.
