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 |
|---|---|---|
ReportHousing Demolition and Redevelopment in Los AngelesThis report examines whether new development in Los Angeles is resulting in the widespread loss, through demolition, of older, more affordable housing units. |
Michael Manville, Shane Phillips, Antonio Elizondo, Devina Ortega | 2021 |
ReportResearch Roundup: The Effect of Market-Rate Development on Neighborhood RentsA roundup of recent research that has delved into the neighborhood-level impacts of market-rate housing. |
Shane Phillips, Michael Manville, Michael Lens | 2021 |
ReportReducing Development Costs with Impact Fee DeferralA fee deferral program would preserve the quantity — and depending on policy design, also the timing — of public fee revenues, while reducing private carrying costs. |
Shane Phillips | 2021 |
ReportAccess to Opportunities PrimerUnderstanding the concept of access to opportunity — why it is important, its determinants, and how it relates to other adjacent issues and policies in transportation, housing and economic development. |
Madeline Brozen, Evelyn Blumenberg, Samikchhuya Bhusal | 2021 |
Report“I Would, If Only I Could” How Cities Can Use California’s Housing Element to Overcome Neighborhood Resistance to New HousingAn 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. |
Paavo Monkkonen, Moira O'Neill, Christopher S. Elmendorf, Eric Biber | 2020 |
BriefThe Need to Prioritize Black Lives in LA's Traffic Safety EffortsThis brief examines the racial/ethnic patterns in Los Angeles' traffic collisions to highlight the strategies that could improve racial equity in transportation safety. |
Madeline Brozen, Annaleigh Yahata Ekman | 2020 |
BriefDriven to Debt: Social Reproduction and (Auto)Mobility in Los AngelesMore than 80% of new car and 50% of used car purchases are financed through loans. Consumers with credit issues or lower incomes are frequently offered subprime loans with high-interest rates. There is much to be learned about the growth in subprime lending and the types of policy solutions that could be adopted to reverse this trend. |
Evelyn Blumenberg, Jane Pollard, Stephen Brumbaugh | 2020 |
BriefBolstering Mobility and Enhancing Transportation Options for Low-Income Older Adults BriefThis study explores the travel patterns, needs, and mobility problems faced by diverse low-income, inner-city older adults in Los Angeles in order to identify solutions to their mobility challenges. |
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Madeline Brozen, Lené Levy-Storms, Martin Wachs | 2020 |
BriefOvercoming Transportation Barriers to Health Care Access During the COVID-19 PandemicTo understand the transportation needs of different populations during the pandemic, this report reviewed the literature across seven health care needs that are overrepresented among people with transportation challenges and/or amenable to transportation interventions. |
Madeline Brozen, Katherine Chen, Jeffrey Rollman, Tayler Ward | 2020 |
ReportCOVID-19 and Renter Distress: Evidence from Los AngelesA 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. |
Michael Manville, Michael Lens, Paavo Monkkonen, Richard Green | 2020 |