Of the myriad issues on the minds of voters in California — the country’s most culturally diverse state and the world’s fifth-largest economy — affordable housing has long ranked among the most pressing, and the most contentious.
For the past two years, with funding from the Pahl Initiative on the Study of Critical Social Issues, UC Santa Barbara Associate Professor Clayton Nall and his team have studied how to improve and expand housing across the state while maintaining a sense of fairness among voters at the local level.To present and discuss results from the study, Nalls will lead a talk and forum, “Why Don’t More Americans Support Housing Development?” from 3:30–5 p.m. Thursday, May 18 in the Betty Elings Wells Pavilion at The Club & Guest House at UC Santa Barbara.