For more than a decade, California has tried to coordinate housing, transportation, and land use planning with the goal of building homes near jobs and transit, creating stronger communities, and protecting open spaces and wildlife corridors. But in practice, housing and transportation are still often planned separately, resulting in homes far from transit and everyday needs.
Building homes near transit and daily needs.
California needs to build more housing — and where that housing is built matters. Without sustained attention, growth tends to push outward, increasing driving, transportation costs, air pollution and exposure to climate risk. ClimatePlan works to incentivize housing near transit, jobs and other daily destinations so that people can get around easily and affordably. Our communities become stronger and more resilient to climate change, and our wild lands and important open spaces are protected.
Our work focuses on fixing the gaps that have kept infill housing and transit-oriented development from moving forward and transit and active transportation projects from being prioritized over road widening.
What we work on:
Shaping reforms to California’s housing, transportation, and land-use frameworks
Developing incentives and implementation tools that make infill housing and transit-oriented development more feasible and less risky to deliver
Advancing solutions through legislative, budget, and administrative processes
Defending California’s core land-use and climate laws to prevent rollbacks that would expand sprawl or weaken long-standing protections
