March 2024 Newsletter
March Ballot Results May Portend Trouble in November
The mixed results for Proposition 1, the Behavioral Health Services Program and Bond Measure, which would dramatically restructure how individuals who are unsheltered and living with mental illness can [...]
Supreme Court Term Features Two Housing and Homelessness Cases
The 2023-2024 Supreme Court term will feature two key cases highlighting tensions in the public discourse regarding housing and homelessness, particularly in California. The first, Sheetz v. County of [...]
State Legislative Update: New Senate Pro Tempore and Notable Bills
February 16th marked the deadline for new bills to be introduced for this year’s legislative session; 2,124 new bills were introduced, many of which attempted to tackle controversial issues [...]
What We’re Reading
Reports
Housing + Climate Policy: Building Equitable Pathways to Sustainability and Affordability | Terner Center | March 2024
Understanding CalAIM Implementation Across California | Terner Center | February 2024
California’s Missing Middle | California Community Builders | February 2024
The impacts of rent burden and eviction on mortality in the United States, 2000–2019 | Social Science & Medicine | January 2024
The Effects of Minimum-Lot-Size Reform on Houston Land Values | Mercatus Center | January 2024
California ADU Reform: A Retrospective | California YIMBY | January 2024
Articles
Can income-restricted ADUs expand the affordable housing stock in Los Angeles? | Brookings | March 4, 2024
California lawmakers face a ballooning budget deficit| CalMatters | February 20, 2024
How the City of Sacramento found a solution to California’s affordable housing crisis | SF Chronicle | February 15, 2024
A prescription for housing? | Vox | February 13, 2024
What if public housing were for everyone? | Vox | February 10, 2024
Senators introduce bill to prevent use of algorithms to raise rent | SmartCitiesDive | February 8, 2024
Los Angeles’ one weird trick to build affordable housing at no public cost | CalMatters | February 7, 2024
How much can your rent go up in California? Check this website | LA Times | February 7, 2024 – possibly paywalled