Converting hotels and motels into affordable housing for union members in Los Angeles County
angelawu2024-08-20T10:13:02-07:00This research explores how UH11 could convert hotels and motels into workforce housing for its members.
This research explores how UH11 could convert hotels and motels into workforce housing for its members.
This study examines the relationship between neighborhood change over time and fixed rail transit in Los Angeles.
Students partnered with a hospitality workers' union to look into creative methods of addressing the housing crisis for its members, other hospitality workers, and the rest of the region’s working class.
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Measure ULA is a November 2022 ballot initiative that would increase taxes on the sale of properties valued $5 million or above in Los Angeles, but there is concern it may depress new housing production. We develop a model for identifying projects that may be most at risk of not being built because of the increased tax.
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