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
81 episodes since 2021
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...
September 04, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 78
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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...
August 21, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 77
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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...
August 07, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 76
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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...
July 24, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 75
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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.
July 10, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 74
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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.
June 26, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 73
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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.
June 03, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 72
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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.
May 15, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 71
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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...
May 01, 2024
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Season 3
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1:03:02
Ep 70: Overcoming Resistance to Density with David Kaufmann and Michael Wicki
What 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.
April 17, 2024
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Episode 70
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1:11:38
Ep 69: Low-Income Housing and 'Crowd Out' with Michael Eriksen
Subsidized 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” ...
April 03, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 69
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57:23
Ep 68: Summarizing the Research on Homelessness with Janey Rountree (Pathways Home pt. 8)
In 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.
March 06, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 68
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1:08:25
Ep 67: How We Cut Veteran Homelessness By Half with Monica Diaz and Shawn Liu (Pathways Home pt. 7)
Since 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.
February 21, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 67
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1:03:22
Ep 66: Chronic Homelessness and Housing First with Tim Aubry (Pathways Home pt. 6)
The 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 pr...
February 07, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 66
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1:10:54
Ep 65: Reducing Homelessness with Unconditional Cash Transfers with Jiaying Zhao (Pathways Home pt. 5)
What 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 ...
January 24, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 65
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1:01:09
Ep. 64: Ending Family Homelessness with Beth Shinn (Pathways Home pt. 4)
“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 simila...
January 10, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 64
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56:10
Ep. 63: Understanding Vehicular Homelessness with Madeline Brozen (Pathways Home pt. 3)
In 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 ...
December 27, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 63
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1:02:21
Ep 62: Who Experiences Homelessness, and Why with Margot Kushel (Pathways Home pt. 2)
Many 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 ...
December 13, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 62
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1:10:54
Ep 61: Homelessness is a Housing Problem with Gregg Colburn (Pathways Home pt.1)
Part 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 bet...
November 29, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 61
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1:06:42
Encore Episode: Fair Housing with Katherine O’Regan
The 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 reve...
November 15, 2023
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Season 3
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1:02:58
Ep 60: Housing Production and Rent Assistance Savings with Kevin Corinth
Housing 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-con...
November 01, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 60
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1:07:51
Ep 59: The Costs of Discretion with Paavo Monkkonen and Mike Manville
Does 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...
October 18, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 59
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1:11:13
Ep 58: Housing Choice and Public Health with Craig Pollack, MD
How 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 hous...
September 06, 2023
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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58:44
Ep 57: Origins of the Mortgage Market (and Federal Bailouts) with Judge Glock
The 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 a...
August 23, 2023
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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1:18:21
Ep 56: Property Rights and Public Health in Nairobi, Kenya with Singumbe Muyeba
Studies 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 Afric...
August 09, 2023
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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