Publications
The briefs and reports below provide a sample of recent research by Lewis Center faculty, affiliated scholars, staff, and students, produced internally or by our partner centers and other universities. Learn more about support for students and the Graduate Student Fellows program to fund students conducting capstone research.
Note: Briefs and reports are often adapted from or into published books and articles in academic journals, which are not listed here.
Title | Author(s) | Year |
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Student WorkMode Choice and Perceptions of the Built Environment in Watts and Jordan Downs BriefThis study assesses how community members of Jordan Downs perceive issues of the built environment, and how these perceptions may influence their transportation mode choice. |
Dustin Khuu | 2019 |
Student WorkMode Choice and Perceptions of the Built Environment in Watts and Jordan DownsThis study assesses how community members of Jordan Downs perceive issues of the built environment, and how these perceptions may influence their transportation mode choice. |
Dustin Khuu | 2019 |
Student WorkIncreasing Equity in LA’s New Street Vending Permit Program to Increase Quality of Life for VendorsThis research aims to understand how the rules and regulations of the Los Angeles ordinance affect current street vendors by deploying three methods: participant observation, mapping, and comparative study. |
Nichole Heil | 2019 |
Student WorkTenants in Foreclosure: An Analysis of How Renters Experience the Financialization of Housing in Los Angeles CountyThis report is interested in who has acquired property through foreclosure since the housing market crash of the mid-’00s. |
Terra Dalton Graziani | 2019 |
Student WorkHomelessness Prevention in Los Angeles CountyThis project evaluates the county’s current homelessness prevention efforts spearheaded by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), called the Prevention and Diversion Program. |
Eric Schroer, Taylor De Laveaga, Gabriela Solis, Robert Gamboa | 2019 |
Student WorkHousing Choice and Access in the Eastern Coachella Valley: An Ethnographic Study of Housing among Low-Wage WorkersThe focus of this project is to more holistically understand housing typologies and choices in the Eastern Coachella Valley. |
Christian Mendez | 2019 |
Student WorkCommunity Land Trust Feasibility in Los Angeles CountyThis research examined current community land trust feasibility in Los Angeles County in consideration of the existing affordable housing funding and housing market environment. |
C.J. Horvath | 2019 |
BriefA Flawed Law: Reforming California’s Housing ElementIn recent years, the state legislature has passed bills seeking to reform California's Housing Element Law. This brief highlights a sometimes misunderstood feature of the law's core planning tool: the RHNA process. |
Paavo Monkkonen, Michael Manville, Spike Friedman | 2019 |
BriefTransit-Oriented Los Angeles: Envisioning an Equitable and Thriving Future SummaryThis is a summary of a report that provides a conceptual framework for thinking about how more people can live and work near transit, near the major regional investments that county residents are paying for, in ways that maximize social benefits and minimize social costs. |
Madeline Brozen, Michael Manville, Mark Vallianatos, Paavo Monkkonen, Matthew Hartzell | 2019 |
BriefEncouraging diverse missing-middle housing near transitThis brief explores why and how jurisdictions in the Los Angeles region should zone for more diverse-types of lowrise housing, especially near transit. |
Mark Vallianatos, Madeline Brozen | 2019 |