by Eliza Gallo New York is a city where real estate is a hot topic — particularly for the USC Price School of Public Policy alumni who live there, working in the public and private sectors to influence policy and shape the urban environment. These influential alums gathered on Oct. 22 Read more…
by Raphael Bostic The long-awaited moment is here. The Millennials are on the move. For the first time in almost a decade, America’s young adults are leaving home and forming their own households at a growing rate. The Millennial generation, now in their 20s and early 30s, have waited longer than Read more…
by Raphael Bostic The U.S. presidential race has done an amazing thing: It has made $28 trillion disappear. That’s how much all the homes in the United States are worth. It’s one tenth of everything the U.S. owns. It’s more money than the entire economy produces in a year. And if you Read more…
by Raphael Bostic Our homes watch over us as we age. They see everything from birth to death and in between—a child’s first steps, a beloved pet’s last breaths, from marriage to divorce, adolescence to infirmity—and through it all, they change as we change. From the decorations on the wall to Read more…
Vincent Reina will be presenting a paper at the APPAM Fall Research Conference: Are They Protected? a National Analysis of What Happens to Subsidized Tenants When an Owner Opts out Abstract: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) financed roughly 850,000 units of housing through the project-based Section 8 program. Read more…
Jacob Gaffney quotes our Director in a post for Housing Wire. Dr. Raphael Bostic has the longest title I’ve ever seen for one person. Bostic is the Judith and John Bedrosian Chair in Governance and the Public Enterprise at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Read more…
by Caroline Stevens In early November, USC had the privilege of hosting The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Policy Forum, Housing America’s Future: New Directions for National Policy. Our Bedrosian Center Director, Raphael Bostic, had the pleasure of kicking off the day’s events and introducing his fellow housing expert, Henry Cisneros, which got Read more…
On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 our Director Raphael Bostic gave his perspective on his time in Obama’s Washington for the Urban Growth Seminar Series. In this seminar, Bostic shared some lessons learned from the policy making space. One of the things he is most proud of is the housing scorecard, Read more…
by Jeremy Loudenback When Jan Perry came to the Bedrosian Center’s Lunch with a Leader last month, we had opportunity to ask her a few questions about her 12-year run as a council member representing District 9 (which includes much of South Los Angeles and some parts of downtown), how to Read more…
Raphael Bostic is quoted in a Bloomberg article about Wall Street-backed landlords and the quest for more and more rent. “These guys are not really rental people,” said Bostic, a professor of public policy at the University of Southern California. “They’re transaction oriented.” For the whole article, see Bloomberg.
January 11, 2013 Join residents, friends and colleagues concerned about access to affordable housing for a panel discussion with the leading candidates to become the next Los Angeles mayor. The forum is free and open to the public. Reservations are limited and accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. We urge Read more…
Bedrosian Center Director, Raphael Bostic interviewed by Mark Garrison on Marketplace, right before the FHA financial status report was sent to Congress. “FHA has historically been an entrée for a bunch of first time homebuyers to get access into home ownership,” says Raphael Bostic, a USC public policy professor and Read more…
California led the nation in foreclosures this July, with over 56,000 homes going into foreclosure. While this number is down 16% from last year, it remains high. In fact, filings in the state of California represented over 25% of new filings.