Category: Housing
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Lewis Center Faculty Lead Study on Impacts of Housing Boom
In the heady years before the Great Recession, did cities and municipalities get carried away with boomtime spending? Once the downturn hit, how prepared were local governments to face suddenly pressing needs in their communities? Urban Planning professors Paavo Monkkonen and Michael Lens plan to address these questions as they lead a three-year, $610,000 study aiming to better understand…
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Juan Matute Addresses California Assembly Committee on Community and Neighborhood Development
Manager of the Local Climate Change Initiative Juan Matute addressed California State Assembly Members about options to finance public improvements. Matute recently wrote a policy brief on the evolution of policy options used to fund or finance local infrastructure improvements in California. A key finding was that though financing needs for infill settings in established communities…
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2013 Lake Arrowhead Symposium Focuses On Smart Technologies, Smart Policies
The 23rd annual UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium on the Transportation – Land Use – Environment Connection will explore the implications of recent and foreseeable future technological innovations for transportation, land use, and environmental policy and planning. The Symposium is an annual invitation-only retreat attended by about 125 policy makers and senior policy analysts from around the country. Many…
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Housing Lecture Series Recap: Interest Rates and Fundamental Fluctuations In Home Values
Professor Albert Saiz,of MIT visited the Lewis Center in May to discuss his research findings about interest rates and their connection with fluctuations in housing prices. Speaking to an audience of 25, he found that the interest rate-housing prices link has significant consequences for wealth accumulation, labor mobility, consumption, macroeconomic volatility, and financial market stability. However, Prof.…