UCLA Housing Voice
Why 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.
Episodes
97 episodes
Ep 90: How to Evaluate Zoning Reforms with Aaron Barrall pt. 2
When a city proposes zoning changes, how do you know whether they’ll be effective? Aaron Barrall shares how we approached the problem in Los Angeles, with lessons for similar upzoning efforts around the world. This is the second episode in a tw...
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Ep 89: How to Evaluate Zoning Reforms with Aaron Barrall pt. 1
When a city proposes zoning changes, how do you know whether they’ll be effective? Aaron Barrall shares how we approached the problem in Los Angeles, with lessons for similar upzoning efforts around the world. This is the first episode in a two...
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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1:03:57
Ep 88: Improving Voucher Outcomes with Dionissi Aliprantis
Helping people move to higher-opportunity neighborhoods requires knowing which neighborhoods are actually better. Are we any good at it? Dionissi Aliprantis shares his research on measuring neighborhood opportunity and the rent assistance progr...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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1:07:57
Ep 87: Rental Voucher Lease-Up Rates with Sarah Strochak
Housing Choice vouchers help lower-income tenants pay rent, yet only about 60% of issued vouchers result in a successful lease-up. Sarah Strochak joins to share how lease-up rates vary for different groups and markets, and how reforming voucher...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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49:25
Ep 86: Where the Hood At? with Mike Lens
How have conditions changed since 1970 in neighborhoods where Black residents are the largest racial or ethnic group? Mike Lens wrote a whole book on the subject: Where the Hood At? Fifty Years of Change in Black Neighborhoods. He take...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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1:17:01
Ep 85: Wildfires, Displacement and Housing Prices with Hannah Hennighausen
On January 7th, the Palisades and Eaton fires erupted in Los Angeles, killing dozens of people, displacing tens of thousands, and destroying more than 15,000 structures. What will this mean for housing affordability in the already-strained regi...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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58:57
Ep 84: A Review of Rent Control Research with Konstantin Kholodilin
Rent control is one of the most hotly debated housing policies, and also one of the most researched. Konstantin Kholodilin reviewed over 200 rent control studies, dating back decades and spanning six continents, and he joins us to give an overv...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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1:06:25
Encore Episode: Family-Friendly Urbanism with Louis Thomas
In 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...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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1:07:15
Ep 83: Local Effects of Upzoning with Simon Büchler and Elena Lutz
Urban upzonings have been rare across the world, and many of the most significant occurred only in the past 5–10 years or less. One exception is the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, where cities and towns have been relaxing land use restrictions ...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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1:01:15
Ep 82: Lessons From the UK Housing Shortage with Anthony Breach
What happens to housing quality and affordability when any proposed development can be vetoed? Can the public sector reliably deliver most of the housing that people need? If it can, should it? Ant Breach shares insights from the Centre for Cit...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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1:03:14
Ep 81: How New Zealand Passed Its Ambitious Zoning Reforms with Eleanor West
In a previous episode we discussed Auckland’s unprecedented upzoning and its effect on housing production and land prices. This time we’re joined by Eleanor West to talk about the political, social, and economic conditions that made the reforms...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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1:10:55
Ep 80: Inclusionary Housing Goes International with Anna Granath Hansson
Inclusionary zoning policies are commonly used to produce affordable housing and “social mix” in the U.S., but what about in Europe, where public housing and strong social welfare programs have historically met those needs? Anna Granath Hansson...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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58:38
Ep 79: Who Pays For Inclusionary Zoning with Shane Phillips
Inclusionary zoning policies use the market to produce affordable housing, but nothing comes for free. So who pays? Shane takes the guest seat to discuss his analysis of IZ in Los Angeles, making the case that it’s not developers or high-income...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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1:07:20
Encore Episode: Inclusionary Zoning with Emily Hamilton
Cities 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...
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Season 3
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1:05:34
Encore Episode: Market-Rate Development and Neighborhood Rents with Evan Mast
We’ve long known that building more homes helps keep prices in check at the regional or metro area level, but what about the house down the street? Evan Mast shares two research studies that shed light on this important and controversial questi...
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Season 3
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46:53
Ep 78: Building Height and Construction Costs with Anthony Orlando
Building taller lets us fit more homes on valuable urban land, but more homes doesn’t necessarily mean more affordable. Anthony Orlando joins to share his research on why taller isn’t always better — and the circumstances where it definitely is...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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1:03:46
Ep 77: Upzoning With Strings Attached with Jacob Krimmel and Maxence Valentin
Changing zoning rules to allow taller and denser buildings may cause land values to go up, and public officials may try to “capture” this added value by requiring affordable units in new developments. But what happens when costs and benefits ar...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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1:00:06
Ep 76: How Housing Supply Responds to Rising Demand with Nathaniel Baum-Snow
When the demand for housing rises, which kinds of neighborhoods respond by building more homes, and which just get more expensive? Nathaniel Baum-Snow joins to discuss his research on the different responses of urban, suburban, and exurban neig...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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1:05:03
Ep 75: Segregating the Built Environment with Ann Owens
We often talk about residential segregation by race or income, but we rarely explore it in the literal sense — as in segregation of residences: of one kind of housing from another. Ann Owens joins to discuss her research on how segregation mani...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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1:00:11
Ep 74: Racial (and Spatial) Disparities in Rental Assistance with Andrew Fenelon
Black 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.Show notes:
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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53:07
Ep 73: French For-Profit Social Housing Developers with Julie Pollard
Before 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....
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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1:07:05
Ep 72: Notes on Tokyo’s Housing, Land Use, and Urban Planning with Shane Phillips
In this episode, Shane combines insights from a recent trip to Tokyo with official data on housing production, affordability, land use policy, and more.Show notes:
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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1:00:32
Ep 71: How China Created a Housing Market with Lan Deng
Each 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.Show notes:
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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1:08:06
Encore Episode: Japanese Housing Policy with Jiro Yoshida
For 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...
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Season 3
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