Los Angeles is launching the largest mobility wallet pilot, where 1,000 people in South Los Angeles will receive $150 per month for one year. UCLA and UC Davis researchers will complete a comprehensive mixed-methods evaluation examining travel trends, experiences, and spending for L.A.’s program.
Wildfire disasters increasingly put Californians at risk. Through close collaboration with organizations representing vulnerable communities and tribal groups, this project will provide a defined process and guidance for “doubly vulnerable” communities across California who are seeking to improve recovery efforts and resilience planning.
This project provides a critical foundation to move towards a deeper understanding of the conditions under which Black neighborhoods flourish and fail, the residential mobility pathways in and out of these neighborhoods, and the consequences of larger policy choices on the Black neighborhood.
Lewis Center researchers, in partnership with Toole Design Group, examine whether subsidized carsharing services like BlueLA can meet environmental goals and narrow the accessibility gaps facing low-income travelers across Los Angeles.
Following the 2017 passage of Assembly Bill 686, the state of California has perhaps the most expansive approach to Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) in the country. This project assesses the impact of California’s implementation and enforcement of AFFH on local planning processes.
The team will analyze automobile debt and loan delinquencies over the past decade as the state emerged from the Great Recession.
Few wildfires had previously impacted large urban areas as the 2025 Los Angeles fires. The scale, destruction, and effects on human lives in the Palisades and Eaton fires, in particular, highlighted the need to understand better how people and planning respond to and can prepare for future disasters.
