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Wildfires, Land-Use, and Housing Policy in California
California is famous across the world for its breath-taking Mediterranean climate, making it a magnet in people from Morocco to Maine and everywhere in the world. However, this comes with one major vulnerability. Wildfires. Wildfires have plagued California’s...
Technical Addendum: Yes, we can predict homelessness in California
Summary Abundant Housing LA researched the relationship between homelessness rates and measures of the housing market across seven metropolitan regions. We focused on the average rent burdens (percentage of household income spent on rent) incurred by households at...
Yes, we can predict homelessness in California
New analysis by Abundant Housing LA reveals the strong power of housing market conditions to predict homelessness in Los Angeles County and other California metropolitan areas. According to the analysis, each additional percent of income spent on rent by severely...
How an Urban Growth Boundary Could Impact Los Angeles
If you were to ask someone who lives outside of California what they picture in their head when they think of Los Angeles, a likely answer will be palm trees, Hollywood superstars, and dire urban sprawl. Whether Angelenos like it or not, Los Angeles’s Urban Sprawl is...
What Is Missing Middle Housing and the Purple Line Neighborhood Plan?
There seems to be a strong disconnect when it comes to ranges in housing discourse. If you talk to many people, you would probably think that neighborhoods are either rows of suburban-style single-family housing or a “manhattan-like” cluster of skyscrapers. However,...
Revisiting Abundant Housing LA’s Policy Agenda in 2020
Los Angeles has failed to build enough housing to meet needs, and is falling further behind every year. Due to limitations on housing construction including a lack of zoned capacity, parking requirements, lengthy and complex approval processes, and neighborhood “Not...
Single-Family Zoning, Segregation, and Abolition
When the discussion of wealthy Los Angeles neighborhoods is brought up, an image of wealthy white individuals commuting from their single-family homes in an expensive car is often conjured. And when terms like ‘the slums” or “inner-city neighborhoods” are discussed,...
Why LA Is So Overcrowded, Why It Is Hurting With COVID, and How Building More Housing in Wealthier Areas Can Help Relieve This
COVID-19 is talked about as if it’s the new black plague. Businesses have shut down, traffic lanes that once seemed perpetually clogged are silent, and people of all backgrounds are being forced to stay home. This is especially true in large urban centers such as New...
An Under-the-Radar Win for Housing in California
Anthony Dedousis, AHLA Policy & Research Director; Chris Elmendorf, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis; Esteban García, AHLA Communications Manager Pro-housing advocates across California have been laser-focused on the Regional Housing Needs...
The Economics of Canceling Rent and Mortgages
It’s no surprise to anyone that the advent of a global pandemic is inducing a worldwide economic meltdown. For months offices have been turned into ghostly shells, busy city streets into silent lanes, and restaurant halls dormant all because coming into close...
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