Using the Fair Housing Land Use Score, we analyzed site distribution across four opportunity indices: median household income, environmental quality, percent white residents, and transportation access.
This brief aims to shed light on the preferences of L.A. residents regarding building affordable multifamily housing. Mayor Bass has constantly scaled down ED1 due to 'pushback' but has yet to take a holistic understanding of her constituents' attitudes.
In this paper, we analyze the public engagement processes of eight Southern California municipalities as they developed a newly mandated AFFH component for their 2021–2029 housing element update.
This report responds to criticisms of two earlier UCLA Lewis Center reports. We show that these criticisms are misguided and also examine a claim that Measure ULA created 10,000 union construction jobs.
A detailed description of the French social housing system as a reference point for governments that seek to create their own, with a discussion of financing, landlord–developers, rent setting, residents, and recent reforms.
The January fires highlight urgent questions: Should we keep building in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) amid worsening climate disasters, and how can we protect the homes already there?
Exploring the feasibility of shared prosperity rental housing, a model blending renter flexibility with homeownership-style wealth building to benefit targeted populations.
This report analyzes how residential mobility contributes to enduring patterns of residential segregation and unequal access to opportunity-rich neighborhoods.
Building codes contain complex tradeoffs between safety, affordability, livability, and sustainability that are inherently political. To realign codes with the public interest, reform is needed to reassert democratic oversight and transparency.
The American elderly population is growing at unprecedented rates, six times faster than the rest of the population. In a few short years, they will account for 24% of the population, yet cities have not planned for this silver tsunami.
