Latest Land use research Podcast Episodes
Ep 49: Sustaining and Growing Europe’s Social Housing with Sorcha Edwards
UCLA Housing Voice - May 03, 2023 10:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsIt’s difficult to sustain a social housing program, but it’s even harder to build one from scratch. Housing Europe, a coalition of social, public, and cooperative housing providers, is trying to do both. Sorcha Edwards, who serves as Secretary General of Housing Europe, joins us to share their e...
Ep 48: Housing Wealth and Retirement with Jaclene Begley
UCLA Housing Voice - April 19, 2023 10:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsHousing is the largest source of wealth for most U.S. households, and wealth influences household decisions and opportunities in myriad ways. One is work: when people experience a significant loss of wealth, such as during an economic recession, they may remain in the workforce longer than plann...
Ep 47: Geographies of Gentrification with Hyojung Lee
UCLA Housing Voice - April 05, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsDoes gentrification lead to increased displacement of vulnerable low-income households? To date, research findings have been surprisingly mixed. One explanation may be that most gentrification studies focus on individual cities, which vary substantially from place to place, or the entire U.S., w...
Ep 46: Manufactured Housing (aka Mobile Homes) with Esther Sullivan
UCLA Housing Voice - March 22, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsManufactured housing is the largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing in the U.S., and one of the only ways that low-income households are able to access homeownership. Due to a mix of public policies and social stigma, these homes are often found in manufactured housing communities, col...
Ep 45: What Happened When Auckland Upzoned Everywhere with Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy
UCLA Housing Voice - March 08, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsIn 2016, Auckland, New Zealand did something nearly unprecedented in the English-speaking world: It upzoned the majority of land in the city, and not just for three or four units per parcel. They went much further than that, and by one estimate increased the legal capacity for housing in the cit...
Ep 44: HOPE VI Public Housing Redevelopment with Rebekah Levine Coley
UCLA Housing Voice - February 22, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsHOPE VI was a federal program running from 1993–2010 that sought to redevelop distressed, poor, racially segregated public housing into mixed-income communities. In that time it helped build nearly 100,000 new homes for people of varying incomes, and with the involvement of both the public and p...
Ep 43: Reexamining Redlining with Todd Michney
UCLA Housing Voice - February 08, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsIn recent years, the story of residential segregation and discrimination — and especially the practice of redlining — has gained well-deserved prominence in U.S. housing discourse. Equally important, the federal government has been directly implicated in the development and institutionalization ...
Ep 42: Vienna’s ‘Remarkably Stable’ Social Housing with Justin Kadi
UCLA Housing Voice - January 25, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsSocial housing — housing built for limited or no profit, often with government support — came to account for huge portions of the housing market in many Western European countries following World War II, but its prominence has declined since the 1980s, when many governments began to shift their ...
Episode 41: Shared-Equity Homeownership with William Cheung and Kelvin Wong
UCLA Housing Voice - January 11, 2023 14:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsShared-equity homeownership programs help low- and moderate-income people afford buying a home, but they come with a catch. In exchange for help with your loan or a discount on your purchase, you need to pay back the government when you sell. That leaves them with less money to buy their next ho...
Ep 41: Shared-Equity Homeownership with William Cheung and Kelvin Wong
UCLA Housing Voice - January 11, 2023 14:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsShared-equity homeownership programs help low- and moderate-income people afford buying a home, but they come with a catch. In exchange for help with your loan or a discount on your purchase, you need to pay back the government when you sell. That leaves them with less money to buy their next ho...
Ep 40: Valuing Black Lives and Housing with Andre Perry
UCLA Housing Voice - December 28, 2022 11:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsAndre Perry has spent years researching majority-Black communities, and he’s reached a stark conclusion: “There’s nothing wrong with Black people that ending racism can’t solve.” His 2020 book, Know Your Price: Valuing Black lives and property in America’s Black cities, explores this idea and it...
Ep 39: The Intertwined History of Class and Race Segregation in Housing with Laura Redford
UCLA Housing Voice - December 14, 2022 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsMuch has been written about the history of racial segregation in America’s housing market — and for good reason — but less is known about the role of class-based segregation. Using early 20th century Los Angeles as a case study, Laura Redford discusses how developers used a combination of restri...
Ep 38: The Housing Supply-Migration-Income Relationship with Peter Ganong
UCLA Housing Voice - November 30, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsPrior to 1980, per-capita income gaps between poor states and rich states were persistently shrinking, driven by the migration of lower-income, less skilled workers to higher-paying regions. Since then, this “regional income convergence” phenomenon has declined. What happened? As always, there’s...
Ep 37: Public Housing and Tenant Power in Atlanta with Akira Drake Rodriguez
UCLA Housing Voice - November 02, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsIn this episode we do a deep dive into the history of Atlanta’s public housing program, from its inception in 1934 to the eventual demolition and redevelopment of many sites in the 1990s and onward. But Professor Akira Drake Rodriguez’s focus isn’t the public housing developments themselves. Rat...
Ep 36: Rent Control in India with Sahil Gandhi and Richard Green
UCLA Housing Voice - October 19, 2022 10:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsUsually, cities with lots of vacant housing have slow rent growth (or low rents), while lower vacancy rates are associated with higher rents. But many Indian cities have an unusual, seemingly paradoxical problem: high vacancy rates and high rents. Why? According to research by Dr. Sahil Gandhi a...
Ep. 35: Landlord Regulation and Unintended Consequences with Meredith Greif
UCLA Housing Voice - October 05, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsHow do we respond when regulations intended to help vulnerable tenants end up disadvantaging them even further? Professor Meredith Greif joins us to discuss her research and new book, Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis, which explores how penalties levied against landlord...
Ep 34: Right to Eviction Counsel with Ingrid Gould Ellen
UCLA Housing Voice - September 21, 2022 13:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWhen eviction cases go to court, it’s typical for more than 90% of landlords to have legal representation, but less than 10% of tenants. This puts tenants at a considerable disadvantage, and helps to explain why few renters win their eviction cases; many don’t bother showing up for court hearing...
Ep 33: Housing Transfer Taxes with Tuukka Saarimaa
UCLA Housing Voice - September 07, 2022 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsIn recent years, many cities have turned to real estate transfer taxes to capture a share of price appreciation and generate revenues for public purposes. Transfer taxes are relatively popular with voters, and they are easy to collect, but they also have disadvantages compared to property taxes ...
Ep 32: Chile’s “Enabling Markets” Policy with Diego Gil
UCLA Housing Voice - August 24, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsStarting in the 1970s, the Pinochet dictatorship overhauled its housing policies in an effort “to transform Chile from a nation of proletarios (proletarians) to one of propietarios (property owners).” To achieve that goal, and others, Chile adopted what the World Bank would later call an “enabli...
Ep 31: Inclusionary Zoning with Emily Hamilton
UCLA Housing Voice - August 10, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsCities have lived with exclusionary zoning for decades, if not generations. Is inclusionary zoning the answer? Inclusionary zoning, or IZ, requires developers to set aside a share of units in new buildings for low- or moderate-income households, seeking to increase the supply of affordable homes...
Ep 30: Skyscrapers with Gabriel Ahlfeldt
UCLA Housing Voice - July 27, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsSkyscrapers! We can’t help but find them fascinating. Some cities are full of skyscrapers, and others have none. Developers built a 70-story tower on that parcel, but the proposed building just down the street is only 30 stories. How do developers decide where to build skyscrapers and how tall t...
Ep 29: Landlords, Discrimination, and Eviction with Eva Rosen and Philip Garboden
UCLA Housing Voice - July 13, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsLandlords don’t have a great reputation. But despite the central role that landlords play in the housing market, there is surprisingly little research into how they operate. Eva Rosen and Philip Garboden interviewed more than 150 landlords in Baltimore, Dallas, Cleveland, and Washington, D.C. in...
Ep 28: Singapore's Public Housing with Chua Beng Huat
UCLA Housing Voice - June 29, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratings“The government and its housing agency are thus constantly, indeed permanently, engaged in acts of balancing competing demands.” This is the situation that the Housing & Development Board, which builds public, owner-occupied housing for the vast majority of Singapore’s citizens and permanent res...
Ep 27: Minimum Lot Size Reform with M. Nolan Gray
UCLA Housing Voice - June 15, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratings“Find ways to give vocal minorities opt-out mechanisms where they can have some of the land use rules that they want, but they don’t get to drag the whole city down with them.” That’s one of Nolan Gray’s primary lessons from the success of minimum lot size reform in Houston, and a prescription f...
Ep 26: The Future of Housing in California — and the Nation — with Dana Cuff and Carolina Reid
UCLA Housing Voice - May 11, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsShane Phillips 0:04 Hello, this is the UCLA housing voice podcast. And I'm your host, Shane Phillips. Each episode we discuss a different housing research paper with its author to better understand how we can make our cities more affordable and more equitable places to live. Believe it or not...
Ep 25: Housing Justice with Casey Dawkins
UCLA Housing Voice - April 27, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsIs housing a human right — or should it be? What obligations would that place on government, and on each of us, to ensure that everyone has access to adequate housing? Casey Dawkins addresses these and many other questions in his new book, Just Housing. Dr. Dawkins traces the history of land and...
Ep 24: Mass Production and Suburbanization in Mexico with Dinorah González
UCLA Housing Voice - April 13, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsHow do developers choose where to build? We need to know the answer to make good policy, and our policy choices may determine whether housing developments advance economic and racial integration, access to opportunity, and sustainability, or they exacerbate segregation, stagnation, and environme...
Ep 23: Political Representation and Housing Supply with Michael Hankinson
UCLA Housing Voice - March 30, 2022 10:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsHow does the structure of political representation affect housing production, both in quantity and spatial distribution? And what does that mean for social and economic equity for traditionally disadvantaged and disenfranchised communities? Michael Hankinson joins us to discuss his research into...
Ep 22: How Housing Shapes Transportation Choices with Adam Millard-Ball
UCLA Housing Voice - March 16, 2022 10:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsDo people drive less because they live in buildings that don’t provide parking, or do they live in buildings that don’t provide parking because they drive less? That question has huge implications for how we build and rebuild our cities, yet researchers have struggled for decades to answer it co...
Ep 21: What to Do About Homelessness with Beth Shinn
UCLA Housing Voice - March 02, 2022 11:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratings“We have the resources, as a society, to prevent and end homelessness. And the knowledge,” according to Beth Shinn, professor at Vanderbilt University and co-author of In the Midst of Plenty: Homelessness and What To Do About It. So what would that look like? In this conversation, we discuss the...
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