Latest Land use research Podcast Episodes
Ep 74: Racial (and Spatial) Disparities in Rental Assistance with Andrew Fenelon
UCLA Housing Voice - July 10, 2024 10:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsBlack households make up a disproportionate share of rent assistance recipients. Andrew Fenelon discusses how a “two-tiered approach to housing support" favoring white homeowners helped create the disparity.
Ep 73: French For-Profit Social Housing Developers with Julie Pollard
UCLA Housing Voice - June 26, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsBefore the 2000s, French real estate developers were prohibited from building social housing. Today, they build more than half of it. Julie Pollard shares how two seemingly unrelated policies came together to make this rapid shift possible.
Ep 72: Notes on Tokyo’s Housing, Land Use, and Urban Planning with Shane Phillips
UCLA Housing Voice - June 03, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsIn this episode, Shane combines insights from a recent trip to Tokyo with official data on housing production, affordability, land use policy, and more.
Ep 71: China’s Housing Market with Lan Deng
UCLA Housing Voice - May 15, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWhy does the housing market seem so broken? And what can we do about it? UCLA Housing Voice tackles these questions in conversation with leading housing researchers, with each episode centered on a study and its implications for creating more affordable and accessible communities.
Ep 71: How China Created a Housing Market with Lan Deng
UCLA Housing Voice - May 15, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsEach year, more money is invested in China's housing market than any other. Lan Deng shares how the market was shaped and the heavy role the government still plays, and what housing in China looks like today.
Encore Episode: Japanese Housing Policy with Jiro Yoshida
UCLA Housing Voice - May 01, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsFor this episode, we take a trip to Tokyo to learn from the successes and shortcomings of Japanese housing policy. Known for high rates of production — Tokyo builds five times more housing than California, per capita — and relatively affordable housing, Japan also struggles with poor maintenance...
Ep 70: Overcoming Resistance to Density with David Kaufmann and Michael Wicki
UCLA Housing Voice - April 17, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWhat makes people more or less supportive of dense housing in their communities? David Kaufmann and Michael Wicki surveyed 12,000 residents in six of the largest U.S. and European cities to find out.
Ep 69: Low-Income Housing and 'Crowd Out' with Michael Eriksen
UCLA Housing Voice - April 03, 2024 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsSubsidized affordable housing development reduces costs for lower-income households directly. It also reduces costs indirectly, by increasing the overall supply of housing — or does it? Michael Eriksen joins to discuss the issue of “crowd out” in affordable housing production.
Ep 68: Summarizing the Research on Homelessness with Janey Rountree (Pathways Home pt. 8)
UCLA Housing Voice - March 06, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsIn this final installment of the Pathways Home series on homelessness policy and research, we discuss lessons and key takeaways from the previous seven episodes with our UCLA colleague, Janey Rountree.
Ep 67: How We Cut Veteran Homelessness By Half with Monica Diaz and Shawn Liu (Pathways Home pt. 7)
UCLA Housing Voice - February 21, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsSince 2009, homelessness among U.S. veterans has fallen by more than half. Among the overall population, it hasn’t budged. Monica Diaz and Shawn Liu of the Department of Veterans Affairs share some of the story behind the VA's success.
Ep 66: Chronic Homelessness and Housing First with Tim Aubry (Pathways Home pt. 6)
UCLA Housing Voice - February 07, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsThe Housing First approach starts with providing homes to chronically unhoused people, but it doesn’t stop there — and that’s what makes it so effective. Tim Aubry shares findings from a major Housing First study and the keys to a successful program.
Ep 65: Reducing Homelessness with Unconditional Cash Transfers with Jiaying Zhao (Pathways Home pt. 5)
UCLA Housing Voice - January 24, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWhat happens when you provide unhoused people with a large sum of money? Jiaying Zhao shares the results of a study in Vancouver, BC, which include reduced shelter use, more spending on food and rent, and no increase in spending on “temptation goods” like drugs and alcohol.
Ep. 64: Ending Family Homelessness with Beth Shinn (Pathways Home pt. 4)
UCLA Housing Voice - January 10, 2024 11:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratings“We have the resources, as a society, to prevent and end homelessness. And the knowledge.” Beth Shinn discusses the Family Options Study, which found that long-term housing subsidies, like housing vouchers, led to much better outcomes at similar cost compared to rapid rehousing, transitional hou...
Ep. 63: Understanding Vehicular Homelessness with Madeline Brozen (Pathways Home pt. 3)
UCLA Housing Voice - December 27, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsIn Los Angeles County, unhoused people living in cars, trucks, and RVs outnumber those in tents and makeshift shelters by 50%, yet vehicular homelessness receives relatively little attention. Many cities don’t even measure or report on it — at least not yet. The Lewis Center’s Madeline Brozen jo...
Ep 62: Who Experiences Homelessness, and Why with Margot Kushel (Pathways Home pt. 2)
UCLA Housing Voice - December 13, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsMany people think they know about the lives of people experiencing homelessness, but those perceptions are often based on anecdote. Margot Kushel, MD joins us to talk about her work on the largest representative study of homelessness since the 1990s, and what it says about who experiences homele...
Ep 61: Homelessness is a Housing Problem with Gregg Colburn (Pathways Home pt.1)
UCLA Housing Voice - November 29, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsPart one of Pathways Home, a six-part series on homelessness. Gregg Colburn, author of Homelessness is a Housing Problem, dispels myths about the causes of homelessness and identifies two key risk factors that explain why rates vary so much between cities: high rents and low vacancies.
Encore Episdoe: Fair Housing with Katherine O’Regan
UCLA Housing Voice - November 15, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsThe federal government passed the Fair Housing Act more than 50 years ago. In that time considerable progress has been made at reducing discrimination in the housing market, but the law’s mandate to “affirmatively further fair housing” and reverse patterns of segregation has been only lightly en...
Encore Episode: Fair Housing with Katherine O’Regan
UCLA Housing Voice - November 15, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsThe federal government passed the Fair Housing Act more than 50 years ago. In that time considerable progress has been made at reducing discrimination in the housing market, but the law’s mandate to “affirmatively further fair housing” and reverse patterns of segregation has been only lightly en...
Ep 60: Housing Production and Rent Assistance Savings with Kevin Corinth
UCLA Housing Voice - November 01, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsHousing scarcity is linked to higher rents and house prices, but it’s rarely connected to the cost and reach of safety net programs — and it should be. Kevin Corinth joins to share his research on how increasing housing production in supply-constrained cities can help the government serve many m...
Ep 59: The Costs of Discretion with Paavo Monkkonen and Mike Manville
UCLA Housing Voice - October 18, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsDoes discretion delay development, or do deliberate decisions divert disaster? Paavo and Mike M. share new Lewis Center research comparing approval timelines for discretionary and by-right projects, and they discuss the consequences of slow and uncertain approval processes for housing production...
Ep 58: Housing Choice and Public Health with Craig Pollack, MD
UCLA Housing Voice - September 06, 2023 10:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsHow does the neighborhood you live in affect your health? Craig Pollack, MD, joins to discuss the relationship between neighborhood poverty and asthma symptoms, the medical establishment’s growing role in the housing sector, and how better housing policy can lead to improved public health.
Ep 57: Origins of the Mortgage Market (and Federal Bailouts) with Judge Glock
UCLA Housing Voice - August 23, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsThe modern mortgage: fixed-rate, low interest, 30-year term, 80% loan-to-value, amortizing. It wouldn’t exist without the backing of the federal government, but how and why was it created? And what were the consequences for the housing market and broader economy? Judge Glock joins us to share th...
Ep 56: Property Rights and Public Health in Nairobi, Kenya with Singumbe Muyeba
UCLA Housing Voice - August 09, 2023 10:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsStudies in Latin America show that “secure tenure” —- protections against displacement by the government — can encourage resident-led development and economic growth in slum areas, as well as improve public health. Is the same true in the African context? And what happens if the government also ...
Ep 55: Condos Don't Cause Gentrification with Leah Boustan and Robert Margo
UCLA Housing Voice - July 26, 2023 10:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsCondos don’t cause gentrification; gentrification causes condos. That’s the verdict of Leah Boustan and Robert Margo, who come on the show to discuss their research on condominium conversion restrictions in US cities. In addition to their research results, we talk about the (surprisingly short) ...
Ep 54: Accessory Dwelling Units and State vs. Local Control with Vinit Mukhija (pt. 2)
UCLA Housing Voice - July 12, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsIn our last episode we talked with Vinit Mukhija about how informal and incremental development is reshaping single-family housing cities in the Global North. This time Prof. Mukhija is back, getting into the weeds of the policies and politics driving those changes. What are the keys to successf...
Ep 53: Informal Housing and Remaking Single-Family Neighborhoods with Vinit Mukhija (pt. 1)
UCLA Housing Voice - June 28, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsDoes your neighbor have an unpermitted home in their backyard? It’s more likely than you think, and it may be filling a valuable niche in the housing market. Vinit Mukhija of the UCLA Dept. of Urban Planning joins us to talk about his new book, Remaking the American Dream, and how informal and i...
Ep 52: Community Land Trusts with Annette Kim
UCLA Housing Voice - June 14, 2023 13:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWe spend billions of dollars on affordable housing development every year, but many units lose their protections and return to market prices after a few decades. Why do we do things this way? Annette Kim joins us to discuss this problem, community land trusts as a strategy for solving it, and th...
Episode 52: Community Land Trusts with Annette Kim
UCLA Housing Voice - June 14, 2023 13:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWe spend billions of dollars on affordable housing development every year, but many units lose their protections and return to market prices after a few decades. Why do we do things this way? Annette Kim joins us to discuss this problem, community land trusts as a strategy for solving it, and th...
Ep 51: The Geography of Eviction with Kyle Nelson
UCLA Housing Voice - June 01, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWhere are evictions most common? You might assume the answer is gentrifying neighborhoods, but evictions are actually most prevalent in areas of concentrated, persistent disadvantage. Joined by co-author (and regular co-host) Mike Lens, Kyle Nelson discusses his research on two eviction types in...
Ep 50: Immigration and Housing Precarity with Carlos Delclós
UCLA Housing Voice - May 17, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsIn the years leading up to the Global Financial Crisis, Spain’s housing prices doubled and its immigrant population increased by 1000%. How did immigrants fare when the market crashed? Carlos Delclós joins us to discuss the “citizen gradient” among Spanish citizens, EU citizens living in Spain, ...
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