As California’s housing crisis intensifies, tax-delinquent properties in the Inland Empire may offer overlooked opportunities for affordable housing development—if coupled with broader policy and planning support.
A report from UC Riverside’s Center for Community Solutions (CCS) maps out tax-defaulted parcels across Riverside and San Bernardino counties, and it explores how land banking—acquiring and holding distressed land for future use—could support local housing strategies.
The study, titled “Exploring Land Banking as a Tool for Affordable Housing in the Inland Empire: A Proof-of-Concept Study,” includes interactive maps that allow users to zoom in to the parcel level to identify tax delinquent property. These maps also feature “context layers” showing environmental constraints, such as wildfire risk, as well as access to transit, jobs, and other important amenities…