What is multi-family homeownership and how can it promote workforce participation and economic resilience for low and moderate income people? Read my conversation with @alexschafran here: https://t.co/Wl1RyM3zDS
How can lower-income homeowners benefit from new rules around 2-4plexes/ADUs in CA and increase their housing stability? Possible role for CD finance? @alexschafran https://t.co/VJa1HP23C4
🧵A deep shortage of adequate #housing options in the SF #BayArea has worsened the impacts of the economic fallout from the #COVID19 pandemic. Researchers from @StanfordSoc & the @sffed#CommunityDevelopment team examined residential instability in the region during the pandemic:
@alexschafran centers resident control in this breakdown of the spectrum of rental/ownership & public/private/nonprofit involvement in #socialhousing or all-of-the-above "affordable" housing to address the #housingcrisis: https://t.co/IyRXMCSasS
We just released a first-of-its-kind study revealing the impacts of new construction, rent stabilization, and just-cause eviction on #displacement#HousingCrisis. Here's our op-ed from the SF Chron, and key findings in the thread 👇
https://t.co/KpjU4dL7v7
SF shows that community land trusts, community opportunity to purchase policies, and impact investment work well in tandem for affordable housing preservation: https://t.co/V2jrafjOOa
If you want to understand visible homelessness, you need to understand barriers to staying housed for people with the lowest incomes: https://t.co/zPkDU5ySBm @TernerHousing
Great video offering an overview of the current barriers and opportunities for ADUs. Remarks from @dptmg@CasitaCoalition and @profchapple feat. some of our collaborative work. More research here: https://t.co/v4A8VKAL0i
Large suburbs have direct access to some federal block grant funding for community development, but traditionally receive fewer public/nonprofit resources than big cities.
How (un)evenly distributed is suburban poverty in your region? Check out our profiles of 14 metro areas in the western US: https://t.co/mjfnlV5xsp @MargaretWeir4
In the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward MSA and in the Salt Lake City region, 39% of people experiencing poverty lived in large suburbs over 50,000 people in 2018.
How can we make sure that community land trust acquisitions through Tenant/Community Opportunity to Purchase laws have steady funding sources and are not just rare "unicorn" cases? @JJYelen https://t.co/dnLvH5zqes
A new #CommunityDevelopment Research Brief highlights the importance of studying the circumstances of peoples' moves to better understand #housing constraints in the San Francisco Bay Area. Here’s what we learned: https://t.co/cTSST6bKGw
Economics is sometimes considered a dry subject, but I have always tried to see the humanity beneath the numbers.
That’s why I’m supportive of mayors.
The work of the city is often where those two things meet. Economic policymaking finds its humanity in the city budget.