Cars as Housing: Vehicular Homelessness in Los Angeles County

2025-04-20T23:42:26-07:00

Thousands of people shelter in vehicles as makeshift housing every night in Los Angeles. Vehicle living is not ideal for those who live in vehicles nor for cities, many of which have responded by enacting ordinances to make it illegal or difficult to sleep in vehicles.

Cars as Housing: Vehicular Homelessness in Los Angeles County2025-04-20T23:42:26-07:00

Shared-Equity Rental Housing: How can we make it a reality in California?

2025-04-20T23:42:30-07:00

In collaboration with MapCraft Labs, this project will identify major barriers to the adoption of shared-equity rental housing, as well as the policy reforms and financial instruments that could be deployed to expand it.

Shared-Equity Rental Housing: How can we make it a reality in California?2025-04-20T23:42:30-07:00

California 100: Past, Present, and Future of Housing in California

2025-04-20T23:42:29-07:00

The state has spent decades allowing its housing problems to worsen, and it will likely take decades of action to solve the resulting crisis. All of this contributes to a grim feeling about California’s future housing trajectory.

California 100: Past, Present, and Future of Housing in California2025-04-20T23:42:29-07:00

The Evolution of Black Neighborhoods: Fifty Years of Spatial and Economic Mobility

2025-04-20T23:42:27-07:00

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. 

The Evolution of Black Neighborhoods: Fifty Years of Spatial and Economic Mobility2025-04-20T23:42:27-07:00

Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing in California: How effective are new state planning efforts to reduce segregation

2025-04-20T23:42:26-07:00

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. 

Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing in California: How effective are new state planning efforts to reduce segregation2025-04-20T23:42:26-07:00

The Impact of ADU Legalization and Production on Rents, House Prices, and Land Values

2025-04-20T23:42:31-07:00

This project uses parcel-level data in California to identify the effects of ADU production on a city’s rents and housing prices, and to isolate the impacts of ADU legalization (i.e., the option value created for existing parcels) on land values.

The Impact of ADU Legalization and Production on Rents, House Prices, and Land Values2025-04-20T23:42:31-07:00

Los Angeles Wildfire Response

2025-04-16T11:58:56-07:00

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.

Los Angeles Wildfire Response2025-04-16T11:58:56-07:00
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