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Tears We Cannot Stop
Can America overcome its sin of racism? If redemption of sin comes through repentance, can White America meet the demands necessary?
A discussion of Michael Eric Dyson’s Tears We Cannot Stop featuring Richard Flory, Richard Green, and Aubrey Hicks
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Surging Southern California home price hits record high
Xinhua News Agency quoted Richard Green, director of the USC Lusk Center, about the causes of rising housing costs in Los Angeles. The director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, Richard Green, analyzed that such situation is the result of the strong economy and house building difficulties in California. Last year only 20,000…
Behind Trump’s transgender ban, a political calculus
The Christian Science Monitor quoted Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the USC Price School on how President Donald Trump crafts policy. Ms. Jeffe sees Trump’s business background on full display in how he operates as president. “He’s a chief executive used to saying ‘Jump!’ and hearing someone say, ‘How high?” she says. “But that’s not the…
Changing Lives in a Changing Neighborhood
By Dr. Lisa K. Bates
Joining the Access to Opportunity team is bringing me into dialogue with amazing scholars and practitioners with deep understanding of policy systems, focusing on an under-studied context of west coast cities. I am looking forward to sharing the research from Portland as we complete this initial round of work. We are looking at Humboldt Gardens, a development of Home Forward (the Housing Authority of Portland), as a site for understanding low-income parents’ (mostly parents of color) strategies for accessing ‘opportunity’.
Home prices in parts of Southern California are at record highs — and keep rising
Los Angeles Times quoted Richard Green, director of the USC Lusk Center, on rising home prices in California. Economists said that absent a recession or a surge in mortgage rates, California home prices could keep climbing at 5% a year for the foreseeable future. That’s faster than the long-term average of 3% nationwide, but it’s…
Should SF tax empty homes and buildings?
San Francisco Chronicle quoted Richard Green, director of the USC Lusk Center, on how a vacancy tax does not solve San Francisco’s housing issues. In San Francisco, a vacancy tax could be a solution in search of a problem, said Richard Green, director of the Lusk Center for Real Estate at the University of Southern…
California Governor Turns to Housing, Rail After Climate Win
The New York Times (in an Associated Press story) quoted Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the USC Price School about California Governor Jerry Brown’s political legacy on climate change. “Without question, it’s a victory for him on several levels,” Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a professor of public policy communication at the University of Southern California, said of…
Chad Mayes gets flack, Harris and Paul team up, could Trump take tips from Brown?
KPCC-FM’s “Take Two” interviewed Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the USC Price School about bipartisanship in California politics and a recent op-ed penned by Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Rand Paul of Kentucky. Listen to this story here
Somewhere in a Galaxy Not So Far Away…President Jerry Brown
Fox & Hounds Daily published commentary by Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the USC Price School and Doug Jeffe about the political past and future of California Governor Jerry Brown. All right, it is fantasy. But this fairy tale scenario illustrates why Jerry Brown won his climate change battle in Sacramento, while President Donald Trump has been losing…
State Legislature Approves Extension Of Landmark Cap-And-Trade Program To Combat Climate Change
LAist quoted Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the USC Price School on how cap and trade in California can serve as a model for the rest of the world to limit carbon emissions. “The whole point of Governor Brown’s intense fight for this is to the show the rest of the world that cap and trade…