Commercial Observerquoted Sherry Bebitch Jeffeof the USC Price School about the California gubernatorial race. Newsom, 50, the former San Francisco mayor currently serving his second term as California’s lieutenant governor, is the expected frontrunner to Cox, 62, a multimillionaire real-estate investor, recently endorsed by President Trump.But, as seen in the Read more…
Arthur Acolin, Raphael Bostic, and Gary Painter have published a paper in the Journal of Economics which tests for discrimination in the rental housing market against names which are recognized as belonging to specific immigrant groups. Acolin, Arthur; Bostic, Raphael; Painter, Gary. (9/2016) A field study of rental market discrimination across origins Read more…
Times Picayune ran commentary by Professors Raphael Bostic, the Bedrosian Chair in Governance, and Richard Green, Director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, and colleagues on the continued nationwide increase in rental rates. Pointing to a slowdown in construction, smaller households, declining renter incomes, as well as the increase Read more…
Evicted is written by Harvard sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Award winner Matthew Desmond. It is being hailed as a “landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in America.”
USC housing expert Raphael Bostic joins 89.3 KPCC’s Take Two to look at the public support for denser neighborhoods. There is a housing crisis in Southern California, but many communities aren’t down with one of the solutions: density. Advocates suggest a range of alternatives, from creating more affordable apartments to increasing rent Read more…
Raphael Bostic joined Take Two to discuss a new study on new luxury apartments and low-income renters in the area of development. Listen to the full discussion.
Our own Raphael Bostic spoke with Jacob Margolis from KPCC about short and long-term rentals. “Why do we have such a very structured lease setup? You don’t see the three month lease. You don’t see the five year lease for that matter. And part of it I think has been 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.
Bedrosian Center Director, Raphael Bostic and Tony Salazar of McCormack Baron Salazar wrote an op-ed published by the Los Angeles Times on the real affordability problem of the Los Angeles housing market. Establish a dedicated, consistent source of funding to support affordable housing. Finding new money in a time of Read more…
