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.
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.
More than 50 years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, households of color and other marginalized groups continue to face unequal access to housing. This two-year project will look into California's progress in reversing long-standing patterns of segregation.
At any given moment, thousands of Angelenos experience homelessness, but many thousands more teeter on its brink, living precariously in the region’s unforgiving housing market. This two-year project will evaluate these conditions through a parcel-level, data-oriented lens.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
