Code, publicly-available data, and figures for this post are available on this Github repository. Significant effort in the social sciences is spent on properly measuring economic well-being. Statistics covering income
On the blog this month we’re looking at trends in generational homeownership rates, by the age of each generation, with generation defined based on the Pew Research Center’s definition. The
Executive Summary Proposition 13 plays an outsized role in the history of public finance in California and is a central feature of property ownership in the state. Despite its importance,
The Zillow Transaction and Assessment Dataset (ZTRAX) is a comprehensive, national real estate database made available free of charge to U.S. academic, nonprofit and government researchers. ZTRAX is largely made
The impacts of rising housing costs are particularly salient among young people in California. Young adults, especially Millennials, are more likely to rent and less likely to own a home than older generations. They have also experienced the largest percent increase in…
Summary Why do cities adopt and maintain laws that restrict land use, creating a shortage of affordable housing? Dominant explanations emphasize the economic incentives of homeowners to preserve their property
Using Census data, BIFYA estimates that essentially all age groups between 21 and 65 are less likely to own a home in 2019 than in 1980. The trend is most pronounced for
Across California, nearly half of people are rent burdened with annual rents exceeding 40 percent of their post-tax income. The picture is bleaker for young people, who are disproportionately impacted by the state’s housing crisis. Not only are they living with…
Panelists Larry Brooks, Director of Operations, Alameda County Health Homes Leslie Dubbin, Assistant Professor, Social Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing at UCSF Felicia Scruggs-Wright, Director of Property Management, East Bay
Panelists Srinidhi Sampath Kumar, Sustainable Housing Program Manager, California Housing Partnership Steven Weissman, Lecturer, Goldman School of Public Policy, and Founder and Former Director of the Energy Program at Berkeley
We envision a new paradigm in public policy that advances an equitable, sustainable, and prosperous society for current and future generations.
