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Affordable Housing Programs

This article details the Association of Bay Area Government’s effort to prioritize affordable housing development in jobs-rich areas. It concludes that this strategy effectively achieves multiple policy goals simultaneously, and advocates for other cities to pursue a similar strategy at the regional level.

Housing Supply Planning

This article looks at how the Association of Bay Area Governments altered their allocation formula in response to California’s affordable housing mandate, from even distribution of affordable housing to concentration in jobs-rich areas. It emphasizes the role of the state in enabling voluntary regional governments to enforce affordable housing production and distribution goals.