Terner Center for Housing Innovation

 

The Terner Center for Housing Innovation develops bold strategies to house people and families from all walks of life in vibrant, sustainable, and affordable homes and communities.

Established in 2015, the Terner Center is now a leading voice nationally in identifying, developing, and advancing innovative public and private sector solutions that reflect this mission.

The Center has three primary focus areas:

  • Increasing the supply and lowering the cost of housing in ways that align with equity and environmental goals
  • Expanding access to quality homes and communities to support racial, social, and economic inclusion
  • Driving innovation in housing policy and practice

Within these focus areas, the Center’s work spans topics such as homelessness, links between housing and climate, zoning and land use reform, economic mobility and access to homeownership, innovative construction methods, and more.

The Terner Center holds a unique and respected role in the housing policy and research landscape based on work to provide timely analysis and data-driven research to support policy and innovation for policymakers, practitioners, and advocates who are addressing the urgent, layered crises of housing affordability, entrenched inequities, and climate change.

The Center is named after Don Terner, a housing pioneer whose ambitious “no limits” spirit lives on in the ethos and approach to our work. Learn more about Don Terner’s legacy.

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Website
ternercenter.berkeley.edu
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Mailing address

1330 Broadway, Suite 430
Oakland, CA 94612


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Schools and businesses are reopening, diners are returning to restaurants, and fans are returning to sports stadiums, but a new crisis in the COVID-19 pandemic may be just weeks away: the possible eviction of millions of Americans who have fallen behind in their rent. When massive job losses and other pandemic-driven economic pressures left many renters unable to pay and accumulating debt to their landlords, the federal government and some states set moratoria that blocked evictions. Now the U.S. ban is set to expire on June 30, and UC Berkeley housing experts are warning of a potential surge of evictions and homelessness, along with damaging economic shock waves.