The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown hundreds of thousands of Angeleno households into financial turmoil. In this brief, Phillips argues that Los Angeles should prioritize support for long-term residents of rent-stabilized housing.
This primer will help policymakers, public officials, advocates, and other stakeholders better understand the many different types of affordable housing, what they accomplish, how they’re regulated, and who they serve.
A joint UCLA-USC report documents the hardships faced by tenants during the COVID-19 pandemic and traces those hardships overwhelmingly to lost work and wages as a result of the economic shutdown.
A roundup of recent research that has delved into the neighborhood-level impacts of market-rate housing.
A fee deferral program would preserve the quantity — and depending on policy design, also the timing — of public fee revenues, while reducing private carrying costs.
An explanation of how city councils and planning departments can use the housing element law to increase housing supply, but find themselves constrained by neighborhood-level opposition to change.
This research brief is a follow-up to a 2020 survey and report that found one in five Los Angeles County tenants struggling to pay rent during the early months of the pandemic. As the economy reopens, many tenants continue to struggle. California should act quickly to deliver assistance directly to renters.
Should cities only allow new housing on the condition that the developers of that housing deliver public benefits in return? This idea is often called “value capture”, and is used to justify — among other things — various forms of inclusionary zoning.
This report examines whether new development in Los Angeles is resulting in the widespread loss, through demolition, of older, more affordable housing units.
This background paper is meant to help the California State Auditor and legislators better understand the limitations of the RHNA process and areas for improvement.
