Journalists from broadcast, cable, print, and online sources turn to Bedrosian faculty and student researchers for their expertise, as resources to inform complex policy issues. Here are links to some of the pieces in which our faculty are quoted.
KPCC-FM’s “Take Two” quoted Richard Green in an article titled “Latinos are denied mortgages because they’re great savers. Really.” Green commented on why Latinos are often denied mortgages despite large saving accounts. That’s in part because lenders rely heavily on credit scores to make their decisions, and Latinos don’t build Read more…
The Wall Street Journal highlighted research by USC Price Ph.D. candidate Arthur Acolin in the post “Lopsided Housing Rebound Leaves Millions of People Out in the Cold.” Acolin and colleagues predict the rate could dip to 58 percent or lower by 2050. This may in turn affect future spending when younger Read more…
Richard Green, director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, was elected as a global trustee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), a nonprofit education and research institute that aims to provide leadership in responsible use of land and the creation of sustainable, thriving communities. Green, who holds the 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…
Inside Higher Ed featured Professor Martin Krieger on the podcast “The Academic Minute.” Krieger took the minute to discuss whether physics can inform how people cluster in cities. Listen on the Inside Higher Ed website here. For the transcript, click here.
USC Price School of Public Policy Professor Frank Zerunyan returned to Armenia for the third consecutive year to provide his expertise in governance to senior officials of the relatively new democracy. Governance skills related to leadership and negotiation are much needed in former Soviet Union countries that are still transitioning Read more…
The San Jose Mercury News quoted Bedrosian Faculty Affilitate Sherry Bebitch Jeffe in an article titled “Hillary Clinton struggles to endear herself to voters” on the Presidential candidate’s vulnerabilities. Clinton’s favorability rating with voters has ebbed and flowed through the years, peaking at nearly 70 percent when she was U.S. secretary of state. Read more…
Fox and Hounds ran an op-ed covering major takeaways after the 2016 Republican National Convention written by Bedroisan Center Faculty Affiliate Sherry Bebitch Jeffe and Doug Jeffe. One of the clear takeaways: “Trump’s message? “Trust me; don’t trust her.” And voters’ perceptions of “trustworthiness” are helping to drive this Presidential race.” For Read more…
When it comes to a major natural disaster hitting Southern California, experts agree that it isn’t a matter of if, but when. In response to these looming threats, the USC Bedrosian Center on Governance at the Price School of Public Policy is committed to showing that the recovery for a Read more…
By Susan Wampler Assistant Professor Emma Aguila, whose research spurred reforms to improve the financial security of millions of people in Mexico, has won the USC Price School of Public Policy’s inaugural High Impact Research Award. Dean Jack H. Knott presented the prize to Aguila at this year’s Price School Read more…
By Susan Wampler Assistant Professor Emma Aguila, whose research spurred reforms to improve the financial security of millions of people in Mexico, has won the USC Price School of Public Policy’s inaugural High Impact Research Award. Dean Jack H. Knott presented the prize to Aguila at this year’s Price School Read more…
In a Los Angeles Times op-ed, Marlon Boarnet and Gary Painter discuss ways for Los Angeles to improve its investment in transit. L.A. Metro can — and should — be much more than a people mover. Armed with the power to capture the value its growth is creating, it could recycle taxpayer-funded Read more…
“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. Read more…
Raphael Bostic, along with the Casden Multifamily Forecast co-author Chris Thornberg, discussed the high cost of living in Southern California on KPCC’s Take Two. “Part of our challenge,” say co-author Raphael Bostic from USC, “is to create a narrative about who we are as California that acknowledges that it’s the Read more…
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.
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 Read more…
Raphael Bostic was quoted in a recent San Diego Union Tribune article on SoCal housing. Raphael Bostic, interim director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, said the university’s findings are not overly negative. He said it shows there is strong job growth and the rate of rent increases could Read more…
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 Read more…
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.
“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 & 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 Read more…
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.
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 Read more…
View as PDF Civic Leaders Kickoff LA Civics Initiative USC Bedrosian Center and City Impact Lab launch Civic Literacy Effort to Support Greater Understanding of Local Government in Los Angeles March 23, 2016, LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles has a civics problem. Moving beyond the statistics of voter turnout, the City Read more…
In the fall, seven presidential candidates showed up at a New Hampshire housing summit to hear about the affordable housing crisis affecting millions of Americans, and organizers deemed the event a success. But all seven have dropped out of the race, and there has been little acknowledgement of housing issues since…. Read more…