Anne Johnson
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Raphael Bostic appointed to APPAM Policy Council
APPAM (Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management) elected Raphael Bostic to its policy council as Vice President. APPAM was founded in 1979 by representatives of 15 policy schools and research institutes. Within a few years, it quickly evolved into a well respected association and by 1981 started publishing the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. …
In Politics, It Isn’t Easy Being Clean
“If you can’t take their money, drink their booze, eat their food, screw their women and vote against them, you don’t belong here,” the late California Assembly Speaker Jesse M. Unruh famously said. That observation capsulizes the disconnect between the world views of Democratic Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. For more of this article…
Those OC Rents That Have Been Rising Forever? More of the Same is Forecast
According to the 2016 USC Casden Multifamily Forecast, rents are expected to jump from 2015 levels by $149 in Orange County by 2018. Raphael Bostic explains why.
Rent getting more expensive for Inland Empire apartments
The annual USC Casden Multifamily Forecast released this week noted the unemployment rate for the Inland area is the lowest in eight years, with growth in transportation and logistics accounting for nearly one-quarter of the area’s new jobs in 2014. Job and population increases over the next two years, the forecast said, will push up rents…
Study: Rent in San Diego to see steep rise by 2018
Apartment-dwellers in San Diego County can look forward to the highest projected rent increases in Southern California over the next two years, thanks to growing demand and low vacancy rates, according to a report [USC Casden Multifamily Forecast] released Tuesday….”Though multifamily construction permits are back to pre-recession levels and have provided some relief, population and…
L.A. Rent Will Go Up $100 Over The Next Two Years, According To USC Forecast
Laist, a Los Angeles webpage, amplified rent is too damn high. This hip site included quotes Raphael Bostic made at the USC Casden Multifamily Forecast.
So Cal apartment rents will continue to rise through 2018
“Population and employment growth are driving up demand faster than new inventory can hit the market,” said Raphael Bostic, interim director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, which collaborated on this week’s [USC Casden Multifamily] forecast with Beacon Economics, a Los Angeles consulting firm.
JPMorgan Chase Launches $125 Million, Five-Year Initiative for Disadvantaged neighborhoods
JPMorgan Chase & Co. today launched PRO Neighborhoods, a $125 million, five-year initiative to identify and support solutions for creating economic opportunity in disadvantaged neighborhoods around the country. PRO Neighborhoods will invest in collaborative partnerships, innovative data-driven ideas to revitalize neighborhoods left behind by the recovery. Raphael Bostic was one of several industry notables quoted in the press…
GOP Split May Boost Sanchez
It seems very likely that the run-off for U.S. Senate will be between Democrats Kamala Harris and Loretta Sanchez thanks to the Republican candidates. Sherry Bebitch Jeffe and Doug Jeffe’s recent article in Fox and Hound explains why.
CityLab: To Ease Traffic, L.A. Needs Much More Than Trains
Transit, zoning, traffic density are the most important issues facing Southern California commuters. Lisa Schweitzer shares her insights with CityLab. “If it’s now possible for me to get from Pasadena to Westwood on transit, I’m all for that,” Lisa Schweitzer, a scholar of transportation and urban planning at the University of Southern California, tells CityLab.…