Download or read book Understanding and Challenging Opposition to Housing Construction in California s Urban Areas written by Paavo Monkkonen and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Housing affordability is one of the most pressing issues facing California today. In the intense public debate over how to make housing affordable, the role of new supply is a key point of contention. This debate continues despite robust empirical evidence demonstrating that supply constraints -- low-density zoning chief among them -- are a core cause of increasing housing costs. Many California residents resist new housing development, especially in their own neighborhoods. This white paper provides background on the opposition to new housing construction and a set of policy recommendations for the state government to address this resistance. I first describe how limiting new construction makes all housing less affordable, exacerbates spatial inequalities, and harms the state's economic productivity and environment. I then discuss the varied motivations for opposing more intensive land use, and highlight the way the complexity of the housing market confuses public debates over this topic. In the fourth section, I list various tactics used to block housing projects and demonstrate just how many veto points there are in our current system. I conclude by presenting several proposals for reform that have potential to reduce the power of local opposition to new housing. The state government should take action in at least four areas -- enforcing and enhancing existing laws, pushing local planning agencies to represent more people more equally, providing information for public discussion, and developing ways to make planning decisions at a metropolitan, not neighborhood scale.
Download or read book The Sociology of Housing written by Brian J. McCabe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark volume about the importance of housing in social life. In 1947, the president of the American Sociological Association argued for the importance of housing as a field of sociological research. Yet seventy-five years later, the sociology of housing has not developed as a distinct field, leaving efforts to understand housing's place in society to other disciplines, such as economics and urban planning. This volume intends to change that, solidifying the place of housing studies as a distinct subfield within the discipline of sociology, showing that housing is both an important element of sociology and a significant component of social life that deserves dedicated attention as a distinct area of research. To do so, the book takes stock of the current field of scholarship and provides new directions for study. The contributors showcase the very best traditions of sociology--they draw on diverse methodological approaches, present unique field sites and data sources, and foreground sociological theory to understand contemporary housing issues. The Sociology of Housing will be a landmark volume, used by researchers and students alike as an introduction to this crucial field and a map of its future potential.
Download or read book Cities Under Pressure written by Paul George Lewis and published by Public Policy Instit. of CA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transit Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends written by Karen Chapple and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement that accompany more compact development around transit. Cities and regions throughout the world are encouraging smarter growth patterns and expanding their transit systems to accommodate this growth, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and satisfy new demands for mobility and accessibility. Yet despite a burgeoning literature and various policy interventions in recent decades, we still understand little about what happens to neighborhoods and residents with the development of transit systems and the trend toward more compact cities. Research has failed to determine why some neighborhoods change both physically and socially while others do not, and how race and class shape change in the twenty-first-century context of growing inequality. Drawing on novel methodological approaches, this book sheds new light on the question of who benefits and who loses from more compact development around new transit stations. Building on data at multiple levels, it connects quantitative analysis on regional patterns with qualitative research through interviews, field observations, and photographic documentation in twelve different California neighborhoods. From the local to the regional to the global, Chapple and Loukaitou-Sideris examine the phenomena of neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement not only through an empirical lens but also from theoretical and historical perspectives. Growing out of an in-depth research process that involved close collaboration with dozens of community groups, the book aims to respond to the needs of both advocates and policymakers for ideas that work in the trenches.
Download or read book Urban Transport and Land Use Planning A Synthesis of Global Knowledge written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2022-02-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Transport and Land Use Planning: A Synthesis of Global Knowledge, Volume Nine in the Advances in Transport Policy and Planning series assesses practices and policies from around the world. Chapters in this updated release include TOD and travel behavior research: A bibliographical review, Mass transit investments and land use in Latin America: A review of recent developments and research findings, TODness and its impacts on TOD performance, Corridor and networked TODs: Concept and planning support tools, Rail-centered accessibility: Concept, policy, and practice, Smart growth and travel behavior: A synthesis, Advances in integrated land use transport modeling, and much more. Other sections cover Residential self-selection in the relationship between the built environment and travel behavior: a literature review and research agenda, Threshold and synergistic effects in land use-travel research, Parking requirements: How land use policy acts as transport policy, The shifting coalition for transportation/land-use policy reform, and Compact urban development in Norway: Spatial changes and underlying policies. Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors Presents the latest release in the Advances in Transport Policy and Planning series
Download or read book Comments on the Urban Development Strategy for California written by California. Task Force on Housing and Construction and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Segregation by Design written by Jessica Trounstine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local governments use their control over land use to generate race and class segregation, benefitting white property owners.
Download or read book Building Rules written by Kee Warner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban and suburban growth is a burning local issue for communities across the United States and many other parts of the world. Concerns include protecting habitats, high costs of infrastructure, social inequalities, traffic congestion, and more intangible worries about "quality of life." Citizens pressure public officials to intensify development regulations, flying in the face of local "growth machines." Builders and growth boosters oppose regulation as unfair and bad for local economies. Based on a systematic comparative study of urban areas in Southern California, this book provides a much-needed examination of the true impacts of local development controls, including the ways that they have and have not made a difference. The authors draw general implications for communities elsewhere and how to better understand theories of growth and urban governance.
Download or read book Concrete Cities written by Rob Imrie and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global building and construction cultures are hard-wired to constructing too much, too badly, with major social and ecological consequences. Rob Imrie calls us to build less and to build better as a pre-requisite for enhancing welfare and well-being.
Download or read book Just Shelter written by Ronald R. Sundstrom and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just Shelter is a work of political philosophy that examines the core injustices of the contemporary U.S. housing crisis and its relation to enduring racial injustices. It investigates gentrification, segregation, desegregation, integration, and homelessness. Taking current conditions and the historical practices that led to them into account, Ronald Sundstrom argues that to achieve justice in social-spatial arrangements we must prioritize the crafting and enforcement of housing policy that corrects the injustices of the past. If we do not address the history of racism in housing policy, we will never solve today's housing crisis.
Download or read book Housing Policy Innovation in the Global South written by Paavo Monkkonen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Housing problems have become increasingly complex in the Global South. An increased pressure to upgrade older stock, to provide adequate infrastructure, and bring city amenities to urban peripheries compounds the continued need for new housing of a decent standard. This comprehensive volume spans nine countries, simultaneously analyzing innovative housing policies and questioning the idea of innovation in this arena. The authors describe three persistent, global challenges to contemporary policy: the inherent difficulty in mass-producing housing of decent quality with access to the city; the challenge of community-based upgrading programmes, which often fail to benefit those who are worst off; and the political root of housing policies, which don’t always consider the diverse needs of populations at the expense of the least powerful. This volume raises questions about what many consider the two most successful areas of housing policy in the Global South: the community-based land sharing programmes for redevelopment in South-East Asia and the finance-driven social housing programmes in Latin America. The authors examine mass housing production programmes, incremental development processes, community-based urban upgrading, the legal structure of condominiums, and land-sharing policies, while also highlighting challenges to policy learning across contexts. This book will be of great interest to students, researchers and those involved with contemporary housing policies, particularly in the Global South. It was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Housing Policy.
Download or read book The Housing Crisis and City Planning Decisions written by Vista Ezzati and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City planners play an important role in shaping our built environments, using zoning regulations and urban design to improve people's quality of life and protect the public's health, safety, and general welfare. The housing crisis is an exceedingly complex issue with multi-layered relationships with other areas related to quality of life, including the climate emergency, urban mobility, housing affordability, and housing supply. With the earth's population estimated to reach 10 billion people by the year 2050 and approximately three-quarters of that population expected to live in urban areas, addressing these challenges has become increasingly important because of its global impacts on the general population. This paper will focus on examining the housing crisis, the types of policy and best practices city planners are implementing in response to the crisis, and a brief examination of the associated impacts on climate change and urban mobility. The literature review aims at defining the challenges and providing context, and also identifying policies that are currently being implemented in other cities. To be successful, city planners will need to abandon the traditional zoning norms that formed the profession's foundation and look to creative solutions to increase housing, such as inclusionary housing programs, density bonus incentives for developers, transit-oriented development incentives, and accessory dwelling units. complex and multi-layered relationships in other areas such as climate change and mobility, the need for collaboration with experts from various industries outside of planning, and the unique characteristics of individual cities.
Download or read book Generation Priced Out written by Randy Shaw and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing the working and middle classes out of urban America. Randy Shaw tells the powerful stories of tenants, politicians, homeowner groups, developers, and activists in over a dozen cities impacted by the national housing crisis. From San Francisco to New York, Seattle to Denver, and Los Angeles to Austin, Generation Priced Out challenges progressive cities to reverse rising economic and racial inequality. Shaw exposes how boomer homeowners restrict millennials’ access to housing in big cities, a generational divide that increasingly dominates city politics. Shaw also demonstrates that neighborhood gentrification is not inevitable and presents proven measures for cities to preserve and expand their working- and middle-class populations and achieve more equitable and inclusive outcomes. Generation Priced Out is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of urban America.
Download or read book Community Development Human Needs and Public Strategies written by California. Legislature. Joint Committee on Community Development and Housing Needs. Joint Subcommittee on Community Development and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Urban Strategy for California written by California. Office of Planning and Research and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Urban Development Strategy for California written by California. Office of Planning and Research and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Challenge of Affordable Housing in 21st Century California written by Karen S. Christensen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
