About the Podcast
UCLA Housing Voice is a podcast hosted by UCLA Lewis Center’s Shane Phillips, housing initiative manager, and co-hosted alternately by professors Mike Lens, Mike Manville, and Paavo Monkkonen. Research on housing affordability, displacement, development and policy is a fast-moving field, with important implications for policy and people. But research findings don’t often get shared with those beyond academia. In every episode, our hosts talk to a different housing researcher to help make sense of their work and how it can be applied in the real world.
Meet the Hosts
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Shane Phillips
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Michael Lens
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Paavo Monkkonen
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Michael Manville
Episode Summaries and Show Notes
Episode 63: Understanding Vehicular Homelessness with Madeline Brozen (Pathways Home pt. 3)
Vehicular homelessness — people living in cars, trucks, and RVs — is a large and growing problem, but also a hidden one. Madeline Brozen shares her research on this understudied population.
Episode 62: Who Experiences Homelessness, and Why with Margot Kushel (Pathways Home pt. 2)
Margot Kushel, MD joins us to talk about her work on the largest representative study of homelessness since the 1990s.
Episode 61: Homelessness is a Housing Problem with Gregg Colburn (Pathways Home pt. 1)
Gregg Colburn dispels myths about the causes of homelessness and identifies two key risk factors that explain why rates vary so much between cities: high rents and low vacancies.
Encore Episode: Fair Housing with Katherine O’Regan
NYU's Katherine O’Regan talks about the legacy of the Fair Housing Act, the changing nature of neighborhood segregation, and recent efforts to proactively foster inclusive communities using fair housing laws.
Episode 60: Housing Production and Rent Assistance Savings with Kevin Corinth
American Enterprise Institute's Kevin Corinth on how the government can serve many more households with rent assistance.
Episode 59: The Costs of Discretion with Paavo Monkkonen and Mike Manville
New research from the Lewis Center compares approval timelines for discretionary and by-right projects, and we discuss the consequences of slow and uncertain approval processes for housing production, affordability, and public trust.
Episode 58: Housing Choice and Public Health with Craig Pollack, MD
How does the neighborhood you live in affect your health? Craig Pollack, MD, joins to discuss how better housing policy can lead to improved public health.
Episode 57: Origins of the Mortgage Market (and Federal Bailouts) with Judge Glock
The modern mortgage wouldn’t exist without the backing of the federal government, but how and why was it created? We discuss its surprising history and the strange bedfellows — farmers and bankers — who fought for it.
Episode 56: Property Rights and Public Health in Nairobi, Kenya with Singumbe Muyeba
In our first episode on housing policy in Africa, we talk with Singumbe Muyeba about how secure tenure and quality, affordable housing impacted physical and mental health for residents of the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.
Episode 55: Condos Don’t Cause Gentrification with Leah Boustan and Robert Margo
New research clarifies cause and effect: Condos don't cause gentrification; gentrifying neighborhoods cause condos.
Episode 54: Accessory Dwelling Units and State vs. Local Control with Vinit Mukhija (pt. 2)
More with UCLA's Vinit Mukhija on ADUs and second-unit policies.
Episode 53: Informal Housing and Remaking Single-Family Neighborhoods with Vinit Mukhija (pt. 1)
UCLA's Vinit Mukhija talks about his new book and how informal and incremental housing is reshaping single-family neighborhoods.