Jadyn Bush

Project: Designing an Equitable TCAC Criteria: A Both/And Solution

Client: Just Cities

Jadyn Bush, MPP '23, completed her BA at Harvard, with a major in economics and a minor in African American Studies. Before her MPP studies, she worked in wealth-management services at Columbia Bank and risk management at Saltchuk. Jadyn's fellowship project, for Just Cities as client, was entitled "Designing an Equitable TCAC Criteria: A Both/And Solution." She analyzed California's opportunity-mapping system for allocating low-income housing tax credits among competing residential-project applicants. To correct the spatial imbalance disfavoring low-income communities of color and perpetuating legacies of under-investment, she recommended a new "both/and" system for assigning development rights and resources while acting to ensure preservation of vital cultural capital and minimize displacement.

For more information, download Jadyn's report summary describing how existing practice can promote affordable housing while addressing crucial race-equity considerations.