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
88 episodes
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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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.Show notes:Wicki, M...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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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” ...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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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.Show notes:
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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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.<...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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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...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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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 ...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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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...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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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 ...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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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 ...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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1:10:54
