Hannah Hennighausen joins to share her research on the 2018 Camp Fire's effect on housing prices and migration, and its lessons for LA and other cities threatened by natural disasters.
Rent control is one of the most hotly debated housing policies, and also one of the most researched. Konstantin Kholodilin reviewed over 200 rent control studies and he joins us to give an overview of the results.
In most of the U.S., cities are for singles, roommates, and childless couples, and the suburbs are for raising kids. That’s not true of much of the rest of the world. Louis Thomas discusses the nearest example of family-friendly urbanism in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Simon Büchler and Elena Lutz share their research on the long-term effects of zoning reforms on housing supply and rents in Zurich, Switzerland, and the kinds of zoning changes that produce real-world results.
Ant Breach shares insights from the Centre for Cities’ report on the United Kingdom’s homebuilding crisis.
Inclusionary zoning policies use the market to produce affordable housing, but nothing comes for free. So who pays? Shane takes the guest seat to discuss his analysis of IZ in Los Angeles, making the case that it’s not developers or high-income renters who bear the cost, but all renters — poor, middle income, and wealthy alike.
Emily Hamilton of the Mercatus Center on how inclusionary zoning has impacted homebuilding and housing prices in the Washington, D.C. region.
Lewis fellow Anne Yoon, MURP '23 received the Neville A. Parker Award for her impactful capstone research.
NYU's Katherine O’Regan talks about the legacy of the Fair Housing Act, the changing nature of neighborhood segregation, and recent efforts to proactively foster inclusive communities using fair housing laws.
Carlos Delclós joins us to discuss how citizenship status influences housing precarity and displacement outcomes in Spain.
