This white paper identifies opportunities and barriers to bringing accessory dwelling unit (ADU) development to scale to boost affordability and diversity in housing options, especially in predominantly single-family zoned neighborhoods. Our research examines both regulatory and financial barriers to increasing “gentle density” and offers recommendations for addressing these problems.

Preserving the Affordability of Unsubsidized Small- to Medium-Scale Multifamily Housing in Southern California

This resource provides a template for the affordable housing developer to use when forming a partnership with a public health professional to complete a Health Action Plan.

This report will broadly detail the evidence behind core steps of the Health Action Plan.

A template for public health professionals to use when hosting a focus group to gather community feedback for the Health Action Plan.

This exercise is designed to support step 6, creating an implementation plan, of the Health Action Plan through a facilitated exercise for strategy prioritization.

A guide to incorporating the strategies in the Health Action Plan into state Qualified Allocation Plans.

This resource provides an editable template for developers to inform residents about the Health Action Plan.

This template is available for use as part of the Health Action Plan Strategy Prioritization Exercise.

This brief offers insight into recommended practices for the community engagement step of the Health Action Plan and provides adaptable community engagement strategies to provide a safe way of collecting community feedback during the Covid-19 pandemic.