Housing

Banner image by Fernando Marti, “The View from Ohlone/Mission Bay: 1776-2016," originally created for the publication Frames, Life, and Liberation.

Housing is more than a place for shelter, it is the locus of opportunity in the United States, determining school assignment, access to jobs, a safe environment, and so much more.

Our research explores the role of housing in shaping inter-group inequality and how housing policy can be designed to improve these outcomes. In particular, our research related to housing centers on a few core areas: affordable housing, land use policy & zoning, racial discrimination, racial segregation, opportunity-based housing, and gentrification & displacement.

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Blog
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Racist Language Should Not Be Purged From Property Deeds

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Publication
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Exclusionary Zoning and Community Resources in Greater Los Angeles

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Video
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Video: Guide to Mapping Race and Housing Segregation in the US

This instructional video shows users how to use our interactive segregation mapping tool which was released in 2021 as part of our Roots of Structural Racism project. The mapping tool allows users to view the levels of segregation anywhere in the US...

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Video
March 30, 2022

Video: Local Histories of Segregation

On Wednesday, March 30 we hosted three brilliant authors who have helped create reports on local histories of segregation for the San Francisco Bay Area and Hartford, Connecticut. They shared their stories as well as their research processes and...

Line chart showing relationship between single famiy zoning and racial composition of a region

Press Release
March 2, 2022

Berkeley study: 78 percent of LA region residential land zoned for exclusionary housing

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Publication
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Single-Family Zoning in Greater Los Angeles

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Publication
February 16, 2022

The Structural Racism Remedies Repository

This a repository of policy-based recommendations for addressing structural and systemic racism or advancing racial equity drawn from a vast array of published material.

Publication
February 16, 2022

The Structural Racism Remedies Project

This essay provides an overview of our open-source, searchable repository of policy-based recommendations for addressing structural and systemic racism or advancing racial equity drawn from a vast array of published material.

Presentations
February 9, 2022

Unpacking the Housing Crisis

More than any time since the Great Recession, policymakers at every level are focused on the deepening problem of housing inequity and the many facets of this problem. Unfortunately, the challenges relating to housing are so many, so great, and so...

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Video
November 5, 2021

White Space, Black Hood

On Nov. 5 Georgetown law professor Sheryll Cashin presented her new book, titled, White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality, at UC Berkeley, in the first in-person event organized by the O&B Institute in...