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 52: Community Land Trusts with Annette Kim
We spend billions of dollars on affordable housing development every year, but many units return to market prices after a few decades. Annette Kim discusses community land trusts as a strategy for solving this.
Episode 51: The Geography of Eviction with Kyle Nelson
Joined by co-author (and regular co-host) Mike Lens, Kyle Nelson discusses his research on two eviction types in Southern California, the different motivations behind them, where they’re distributed, and how we might prevent them.
Episode 50: Immigration and Housing Precarity with Carlos Delclós
Carlos Delclós joins us to discuss how citizenship status influences housing precarity and displacement outcomes in Spain.
Episode 49: Sustaining and Growing Europe’s Social Housing with Sorcha Edwards
Housing Europe's secretary general shares the efforts to expand the footprint of nonprofit and limited-profit housing across the continent.
Episode 48: Housing Wealth and Retirement with Jaclene Begley
Jaclene Begley on the broader consequences of relying on housing as most households' primary source of wealth and retirement nest egg.
Episode 47: Geographies of Gentrification with Hyojung Lee
Lee's research categorized the U.S. into eight unique geographies, searching for differences in how gentrification impacts the displacement of low-income households.
Episode 46: Manufactured Housing (aka Mobile Homes) with Esther Sullivan
Esther Sullivan discusses how residents experience eviction when mobile home communities are closed in two states with very different policy approaches: Texas and Florida.
Episode 45: What Happened When Auckland Upzoned Everywhere with Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy
In 2016, Auckland, NZ upzoned the majority of its land in an effort to increase multifamily housing production and slow rapidly rising housing prices. Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy on if they succeeded.
Episode 44: HOPE VI Public Housing Redevelopment with Rebekah Levine Coley
Rebekah Levine Coley joins us to share her research into the impacts of HOPE VI redevelopment on neighborhood poverty, racial composition, and community resources.
Episode 43: Reexamining Redlining with Todd Michney
Georgia Tech's Todd Michney on the early days of HOLC’s housing market rescue efforts and the commonly-told story about the origins of redlining.
Episode 42: Vienna’s ‘Remarkably Stable’ Social Housing with Justin Kadi
An incredible overview of how social housing is planned, financed, built, and operated in the places it’s been most successful.
Episode 41: Shared-Equity Homeownership with William Cheung and Kelvin Wong
Shared-equity homeownership programs help people afford a home, but the flipside of paying back the government when you sell leaves people with less money to buy their next home, so many end up stuck in place or back on the rental market.