Publicationsangelawu2023-09-07T15:08:12-07:00

Publications

The briefs and reports below provide a sample of recent research by Lewis Center faculty, affiliated scholars, staff, and students, produced internally or by our partner centers and other universities. Learn more about support for students and the Graduate Student Fellows program to fund students conducting capstone research.

Note: Briefs and reports are often adapted from or into published books and articles in academic journals, which are not listed here.

Title	Author(s)	Year
Brief Federal Housing Assistance in Los Angeles County is Primarily for High-Income Neighborhoods Eliminating the Mortgage Interest Deduction would generate new revenue for the federal government — in 2014, it cost the U.S. Treasury more than $100 billion. An expansion of such magnitude might allow us to cover all the households in LA County eligible for housing subsidies.	Paavo Monkkonen, Yiwen (Xavier) Kuai	2018
Report Bolstering Mobility and Enhancing Transportation Options for Low-Income Older Adults This study explores the travel patterns, needs, and mobility problems faced by diverse low-income, inner-city older adults in Los Angeles in order to identify solutions to their mobility challenges.	Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Madeline Brozen, Martin Wachs, Lené Levy-Storms	2018
Brief Motivations for Growth Revolts: Discretion and Pretext as Sources of Development Conflict Ballot box growth revolts, where residents force a referendum to restrict new development, can have longlasting repercussions for communities. Such revolts are rare, but they shed light on long-standing discontent with local land use planning that is important for policymakers and planners to acknowledge and understand.	Michael Manville, Taner Osman	2018
Report Falling Transit Ridership: California and Southern California In the last 10 years, transit use in Southern California has fallen significantly. This report examines patterns of transit service and patronage over time and across the region, and considers an array of explanations for falling transit use.	Michael Manville, Brian D. Taylor, Evelyn Blumenberg	2018
Report South LA Since the Sixties This report examines the socioeconomic changes in South Los Angeles since the Sixties to shed light on what, if any, progress has been made toward addressing issues of access, equity, and justice.	Paul Ong, Andre Comandon, Alycia Cheng, Silvia R. Gonzalez	2018
Student Work How Fair is Fair-Share? A Longitudinal Assessment of California’s Housing Element Law The state of California implements the Regional Housing Needs Assessment program as the central pillar of its statewide housing policy, the Housing Element Law. It determines “fair share” allocations of a region’s forecasted growth in households for each city and county, and directs local jurisdictions to accommodate the allocations in its general plans and zoning capacity.	Shine Ling	2018
Brief Is Los Angeles Destroying Its Affordable Housing Stock to Build Luxury Apartments? Is Los Angeles cannibalizing its affordable rental housing to make way for market-rate and luxury apartments? We looked at records for new multifamily development in Los Angeles to determine what was demolished to build new housing.	Eve Bachrach, Paavo Monkkonen, Michael Lens	2017
Brief How Proposition U Restrains Los Angeles Housing Development Can repealing Proposition U help Los Angeles make room for thousands of additional housing units near transit and alleviate development pressure on current residential neighborhoods?	Paavo Monkkonen, Kate Traynor	2017
Brief Overcoming Opposition to New Housing How can we reform our planning systems to increase supply on the one hand, and to reduce the unequal spatial distribution of new development on the other? Researchers at UCLA examined the tactics available to opponents of new housing development and categorized the motivations behind anti-development sentiment.	Paavo Monkkonen, Will Livesley-O'Neill	2017
Brief The Likely Consequences of Measure S: Higher Housing Costs While there is no shortage of debate on Measure S, the public dialogue has been relatively uninformed about the likely consequences of the Measure. Our best assessment of the available research and data leads us to conclude that if the measure passes, rents and property costs in the Los Angeles region are likely to rise faster than they are already.	Michael Lens, Madeline Brozen, Herbie Huff, Kate Traynor	2017