Panelists highlighted zoning reforms, mobility programs, and street safety improvements—practical strategies to create a more inclusive, connected Los Angeles.
In “Where the Hood At?”, Professor Michael Lens found unexpected inspiration in rapper DMX while examining Black neighborhood development.
Strochak shares how lease-up rates vary for different groups and markets, and how reforming voucher policies could improve the lease-up process and get more people into affordable homes.
Associate faculty director Lens wrote a whole book on the subject. He takes the guest mic to share what he learned of 50 years of change in Black neighborhoods.
Hannah Hennighausen joins to share her research on the 2018 Camp Fire's effect on housing prices and migration, and its lessons for LA and other cities threatened by natural disasters.
Rent control is one of the most hotly debated housing policies, and also one of the most researched. Konstantin Kholodilin reviewed over 200 rent control studies and he joins us to give an overview of the results.
In most of the U.S., cities are for singles, roommates, and childless couples, and the suburbs are for raising kids. That’s not true of much of the rest of the world. Louis Thomas discusses the nearest example of family-friendly urbanism in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Simon Büchler and Elena Lutz share their research on the long-term effects of zoning reforms on housing supply and rents in Zurich, Switzerland, and the kinds of zoning changes that produce real-world results.
Ant Breach shares insights from the Centre for Cities’ report on the United Kingdom’s homebuilding crisis.
Inclusionary zoning policies use the market to produce affordable housing, but nothing comes for free. So who pays? Shane takes the guest seat to discuss his analysis of IZ in Los Angeles, making the case that it’s not developers or high-income renters who bear the cost, but all renters — poor, middle income, and wealthy alike.
