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 |
|---|---|---|
ReportWhat Gets Built on Sites That Cities "Make Available" for Housing?In this report, we analyze local plans and housing development rates in nearly 100 cities in the San Francisco Bay Area. We assess production on sites presented by cities to the state government as apt for housing, as well as elsewhere in the city. |
Christopher S. Elmendorf, Paavo Monkkonen, Sidharth Kapur, Salim Damerdji | 2021 |
BriefEnd of the pandemic, but not renter distressThis 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. |
Michael Manville, Paavo Monkkonen, Michael Lens, Richard Green | 2021 |
ReportAccess to Child Care in Los Angeles County: Recent Trends and COVID-19 ImplicationsAffordable and accessible child care is essential infrastructure. In Los Angeles, parents struggle to afford quality care, even as wages in the sector remain low. |
Madeline Brozen, Evelyn Blumenberg, Samikchhuya Bhusal | 2021 |
ReportValue Capture Reconsidered: What if L.A. was Actually Building Too Little?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. |
Michael Manville | 2021 |
ReportMapping Yesterday's Police Activity at UCLAThis report maps and visualizes policing data at UCLA, including location, type of event, and disposition status for the daily activity of the UCPD. |
Alejandra A Martinez, Jennifer M. Chacon, Noah D. Zatz, Paavo Monkkonen | 2021 |
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 |