The Section 8 voucher program enables low-income residents to rent homes in the private market while receiving financial assistance to keep their housing affordable.
This project analyzes the switch from level-of-service (LOS) to vehicle miles traveled (VMT) as a measure of significant environmental impacts. The researchers study how both LOS and VMT relate to development, housing, land use, and emissions.
This project studies how state and federal housing policies affect affordable housing development in neighborhoods with low vehicle miles of travel (VMT).
California’s freeways have come under increasing scrutiny for their disproportionately adverse impacts on low-income populations and populations of color.
This paper looks at the intersection of policies promoting affordable housing, transit-oriented developments (TODs), and the reduction of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in metropolitan areas.
Meet Jamey Volker, a 2020 graduate of the UC Davis Transportation Technology and Policy Ph.D. program, and currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies.
