Latest Rising rent Podcast Episodes
Ep 20: Social Housing in France with Magda Maaoui
UCLA Housing Voice - February 16, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsSocial housing — homes reserved for lower- and middle-income households — has recently become something of a cause célèbre among left-leaning North American housing advocates. Given that, where better to look for guidance than in France? The SRU Law (Loi Solidarité et Renouvellement Urbain, or S...
Ep 19: Community Finance and Slum Upgrading in Bangkok with Hayden Shelby
UCLA Housing Voice - February 02, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsThe international tour continues! This week we interviewed Hayden Shelby, Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati, about her research into the Baan Mankong (“Secure Housing”) program in Bangkok, Thailand. Built on the principles of community organizing, finance, and ownership, Baan M...
Ep 18: Vacant Houses with Jake Wegmann
UCLA Housing Voice - January 19, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsVacant houses are often pointed to as a symptom (or cause) of the housing crisis, but what do we really know about them? Where are they located; who lives in them; how many are there? In this conversation we explore foundational, data-driven research on the nature of vacancies in cities and neig...
Ep 17: Housing Vouchers with Rob Collinson
UCLA Housing Voice - January 05, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsEvery year, more than two million low-income households receive rental assistance through the Housing Choice Voucher program, a federal program that helps renters afford housing on the private market. Currently, only about one-quarter of those eligible for vouchers receive them due to lack of pr...
Ep 16: Japanese Housing Policy with Jiro Yoshida
UCLA Housing Voice - December 08, 2021 11:00 - 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 15: The Legacy of Redlining with Jacob Faber
UCLA Housing Voice - November 24, 2021 11:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsIn the 1930s, in the midst of the Great Depression, the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) was created to protect households from foreclosure and in some cases repurchase homes they’d already lost. As a part of its efforts, HOLC created “residential security maps” to categorize neighborhoods by...
Ep 14: Family-Friendly Urbanism with Louis Thomas
UCLA Housing Voice - November 10, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsIn most of the U.S., cities are for singles, roommates, and childless couples, and the suburbs are for raising kids. That’s not true of much of the rest of the world, and perhaps the nearest example of family-friendly urbanism can be found just a few miles to the north, in Vancouver, British Col...
Ep 13: State Housing Mandates with Nicholas Marantz and Huixin Zheng
UCLA Housing Voice - October 27, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsCities across the country have dropped the ball when it comes to planning for and building housing at all income levels — especially housing affordable to low-income residents. In response, many states have intervened. The form these interventions take varies from place to place, however, with N...
Ep 12: Transit-Induced Displacement with Elizabeth Delmelle
UCLA Housing Voice - October 13, 2021 10:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWhen major public investments are proposed in lower- and middle-income neighborhoods, it’s common to hear concerns about gentrification and displacement: Will the new rail line, park, or bike lane benefit the people who currently call the neighborhood home, or will it only lead to the displaceme...
Ep 11: COVID-19 and Renter Distress with Mike Manville and Paavo Monkkonen
UCLA Housing Voice - September 29, 2021 10:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWe know that the COVID-19 pandemic has been tough on many renters, with job and income losses piled on top of mental stress and the physical threat of deadly infection. Then add housing insecurity to the mix. The UCLA Lewis Center’s Mike Manville and Paavo Monkkonen join us as guests to talk abo...
Ep 10: Upzoning and Single-Family Housing Prices with Daniel Kuhlmann
UCLA Housing Voice - September 15, 2021 10:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsMany cities — and the entire state of California — are considering ending single-family zoning, or apartment bans, to improve housing affordability and address historic injustices in housing and land use. Opponents of these reforms argue that “upzoning” for higher-density housing will do the opp...
Ep 09: Neighborhood Perceptions with Prentiss Dantzler
UCLA Housing Voice - September 01, 2021 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsInstitutions like the U.S. Census Bureau offer us a wealth of statistics about the places people live: household incomes; demographics like race, ethnicity, age, and gender; how many people own or rent their homes, how much they pay, and where they moved from. We know much less about how people ...
Episode 09: Neighborhood Perceptions with Prentiss Dantzler
UCLA Housing Voice - September 01, 2021 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsInstitutions like the U.S. Census Bureau offer us a wealth of statistics about the places people live: household incomes; demographics like race, ethnicity, age, and gender; how many people own or rent their homes, how much they pay, and where they moved from. We know much less about how people ...
Ep 08: Exactions and Value Capture with Minjee Kim
UCLA Housing Voice - August 18, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsMany local governments seek to extract public benefits, such as open space and low-income housing units, from new development. These benefits are often negotiated during the project approval process, or they may be tied to local zoning changes that allow for taller or denser development. How bes...
Ep 07: Residential Mobility with Kristin Perkins
UCLA Housing Voice - August 04, 2021 10:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsPast research has shown that moving to a better neighborhood can improve life outcomes for children and adults, at least under certain conditions. However, these studies do not examine how impacts differ by race and ethnicity, and they tend to focus only on a narrow slice of the population, such...
Ep 06: Financialization with Martine August
UCLA Housing Voice - July 21, 2021 10:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsIn the not-too-distant past, most multifamily rental housing was owned by small or midsize landlords. But over the past few decades the share of units owned by large, well-capitalized, shareholder-driven institutions has increased dramatically. What’s driving this change, and what does it mean f...
Ep 05: Market-Rate Development and Neighborhood Rents with Evan Mast
UCLA Housing Voice - July 07, 2021 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWe’ve known for many years that building more homes helps keep prices in check at the regional or metro area level, but what about the house down the street? When a new apartment building goes up nearby, does the “supply effect” of more homes lower rents, or does the “demand effect” send a signa...
Ep 04: Fair Housing with Katherine O'Regan
UCLA Housing Voice - June 23, 2021 10:00 - 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 03: Bundled Parking with Michael Manville
UCLA Housing Voice - June 09, 2021 10:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsAs a general rule, more parking means more vehicle ownership and more driving in cities. However, how people pay for that parking (or if they pay at all) also affects travel behavior: when parking is included in the price of housing — when it is “bundled” — people also drive more and use transit...
Ep 02: Mortgage Discrimination with José Loya
UCLA Housing Voice - May 26, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsMost of us are familiar with how subprime loans were disproportionately (and predatorily) targeted at Black and Latino households during the 2000s housing bubble leading up to the Great Recession. Less well known is that disparate treatment in mortgage lending is making a comeback alongside the ...
Ep 01: Evil Developers with Paavo Monkkonen
UCLA Housing Voice - April 28, 2021 19:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsEpisode Summary: Which arguments against new housing are most effective? Residents were asked how they felt about a hypothetical housing development proposed nearby, then told about the concerns of some of their neighbors: traffic congestion, neighborhood character, strained services, or develop...
UCLA Housing Voice Trailer
UCLA Housing Voice - April 07, 2021 22:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 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.
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