UC Berkeley News: 78 Percent Of LA Region Residential Land Zoned For Exclusionary Housing

Press release from UC Berkeley News:

March 2, 2022

Single-family housing dominates residential zoning in six-county LA region, producing unequal health, educational and income outcomes, and creating opportunity barriers for low-income, Black and Latino residents.

BERKELEY: More than three-quarters (77.7 percent) of residential land in the housing-starved greater Los Angeles region is reserved for single-family homes, a new analysis by UC Berkeley's Othering & Belonging Institute (OBI) finds, creating a barrier to low-income people from accessing high-opportunity neighborhoods.

According to the study, the average amount of total land (including commercial areas and parks)
exclusively reserved for single-family housing in the region is 40.67 percent. In contrast, only 11.8 percent of total land is available for denser, multi-family developments.

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