Author: Lewis Center
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Guest post: Proposition HHH and the housing-first approach to ending chronic homelessness in LA
By Stephanie Klasky-Gamer, president and CEO of LA Family Housing Angelenos care deeply about our city’s homelessness crisis. And we know what the solution is: Building more homes. Last January, as part of the annual census of people experiencing homelessness, nearly 8,000 volunteers counted 58,000 people experiencing homelessness across Los Angeles County — a 23 percent…
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Lake Arrowhead Symposium: How pricing and technology can improve transportation and climate impacts
By Jordan Fraade The 27th Annual UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium – “Global Climate Change, Local Growing Pains” -tackled the connections and conflicts between sustainability goals and land use policy in California and beyond. Here’s a dispatch from a session on Monday, October 16, and a summary video with the three panelists. Users of our transportation…
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Lake Arrowhead Symposium: Building our way to denser, greener, more affordable neighborhoods
By Eve Bachrach The 27th Annual UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium – “Global Climate Change, Local Growing Pains” – tackles the connections and conflicts between sustainability goals and land use policy in California and beyond. Here’s a dispatch from the opening night session and a summary video with the three panelists. California is not building enough…
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Recapping our Housing and Activism series: Despite the contentious past, presenting hope for the future
Public Housing and Activism series brought together community members, activists, academics and public officials to discuss the thorny intersection of displacement, environmental justice, and housing policy. The 2016-2017 Housing and Activism series, produced with our partners at the Ziman Center for Real Estate and the Institute on Inequality and Democracy, strove to center stage the…
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Obama Administration Tackles Housing Affordability, Cites Lewis Center Scholars
In releasing a Housing Development Toolkit earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development amplified a growing chorus of voices calling for reform to regulations that limit housing production. The report states, “The increasing severity of under-supplied housing markets is jeopardizing housing affordability for working families, exacerbating income inequality by reducing workers’…
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Professor Manville Returns to UCLA
It is with great excitement that the UCLA Lewis Center welcomes Mike Manville back to UCLA Luskin as an assistant professor of Urban Planning. Professor Manville received both his MA and PhD in urban planning from UCLA in 2003 and 2009 respectively and afterward served as a post-doctoral researcher with the Lewis Center. Professor Manville…
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Women Making Moves: Gender and the Changing Landscape of Transportation
(More photos below the article and on Google Photos). In March, women’s history month, the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies convened Women Making Moves: Gender and the Changing Nature of Transportation to celebrate the rise of strong women in the transportation field in Los Angeles, and to…
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Urban Goods Movement Lecture Series: Genevieve Giuliano
(see more photos and Dr. Giuliano’s slides below) Dr. Genevieve Giuliano, this year’s Perloff Speaker, gave a lecture titled, “Spatial Dynamics of the Logistics Industry in California Metropolitan Areas.” This lecture was also part of the Urban Goods Movement Lecture Series, organized by the Lewis Center in partnership with the Community Scholars Program and Center, the UCLA Department…