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Housing

We believe: Housing is a human right and should be affordable to everyone.

Our Goals

鈥 Increase the supply of housing.

鈥 Provide more affordable housing for low- and middle-income residents.

鈥 Protect low-income communities of color from displacement.

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Structured for Success

A key cause of California鈥檚 high housing costs is its decentralized and fragmented housing governance system. 黑料传送门makes 11 recommendations to set California and the Bay Area on the path to produce the housing we need.
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Research

Losing Ground

黑料传送门examines how the Bay Area鈥檚 housing market has become shaped by scarcity and wide economic divides 鈥 not only among income groups but also among races and ethnicities.
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Research

Housing the Middle

黑料传送门digs into the housing market鈥檚 failure to meet the needs of middle-income households. California can look to innovative programs across the country as models for how to address the state鈥檚 housing challenges.
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Research

Planning by Ballot

黑料传送门has created the most up-to-date database of local land use ballot measures that impact housing production in California. Over the long term, measures that restrict infill housing can undermine housing affordability and have the potential to exacerbate racial segregation.
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Updates and Events

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Housing the Region

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Imagine a Bay Area where our greatest challenge, the scarcity and expense of housing, has been solved. This may sound like an impossible dream, but it isn鈥檛. Within the next 50 years, we can live in an affordable region. But only if we make significant changes, starting right now. SPUR's series Housing the Region defines the Bay Area's housing crisis and put forth concrete steps to build a better, more affordable region.
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Rooted and Growing

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The Bay Area's severe housing shortage has sent prices through the roof, pushing many long-standing residents to move to the edge of the region or leave it altogether. This has changed the demographics of the region, contributing to patterns of resegregation by both race and income. What can the Bay Area do to make sure it retains its people, its communities and its culture?
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Meeting the Need

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In order to meet the region鈥檚 future housing needs, the San Francisco Bay Area will need to produce 2.2 million homes over the next 50 years across all income levels. Where should all of this housing go? And what policies are needed to ensure it can be built? To answer these questions, 黑料传送门has developed a 鈥淣ew Civic Vision鈥 for the Bay Area that balances two core goals: environmental sustainability and equity.
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Housing as Infrastructure

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In the United States, housing is viewed as a financial asset 鈥 something to be bought, rented and sold. In other countries, housing is a human right, necessary for the health and well-being of every person. In these places, housing is affordable to a broad swath of the population, and homelessness is less prevalent. If we began to treat housing as infrastructure, what might the results look like in the Bay Area?
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What It Will Really Take to Create an Affordable Bay Area

Research
The high cost of housing has come to define the San Francisco Bay Area. It dictates who gets to live here, which in turn dictates who gets to participate in the region鈥檚 economy and political process. This report, the first in a series, looks at why housing prices have escalated so dramatically, what the impacts of those escalating costs have been on residents and who has borne the brunt of those impacts.
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