Building Communities of Hope Across Los Angeles
Cision quoted LaVonna Lewis of the USC Price School on a project that will provide a platfrom for shared learning and understanding between students and communities in Los Angeles.
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Measure B Could Eventually Keep Your Local Tax Dollars out of Major Private Banks
L.A. Taco quoted Nicolas Duquette of the USC Price School on Measure B, an initiative that could open the doors for a Los Angeles public bank.
USC report: Average LA rents will go up $91 by 2020
Curbed L.A. featured research by USC’s Lusk Center for Real Estate on rising rents in Los Angeles. The average renter will spend a little over $90 more per month on housing in 2020 than in 2018, according to the report. “The way to raise vacancy rates is to build more,” said Richard Green of the USC Price School.
Calculations show bullet train can complete route within 2 hours and 40 minutes. Reality may prove slower
Los Angeles Times quoted Lisa Schweitzer of the USC Price School on the likely opposition to a bullet train traveling 220 miles per hour through California cities like Bakersfield, Fresno and Palmdale.
LA rental prices are on an upward crawl
Curbed LA cited comments by Richard Green of the USC Lusk Center on how the increasing supply of apartments has impacted Los Angeles’ housing crisis.
“You can hold someone accountable and hold them at the same time.”
Ashlee Marie Preston, civil rights activist, writer, speaker, and host of the excellent podcast SHOOK with Ashlee Marie Preston. Ashlee Marie has many talents, but she is, above all, a communicator. She conceived her podcast as a “platform that is intentional about unpacking the accurate narrative of not just LGBTQ people or trans people, but being intentional about creating the world in which you wish to live in.” Listen to her activism and how you can be an ally.
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Los Angeles Mayor’s Political Future Tied to Plan to Solve City’s Homeless Crisis
The Wall Street Journal quoted Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the USC Price School about how Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s tackling of the city’s homelessness issue will define his legacy and political future.
“I am a powerful agent of change. I am deliberate. And I am not afraid.”
Native American award-winning film director and producer, actor, singer/songwriter, author, and founder and CEO of multiple media organizations, humanitarian Joanelle Romero. Joanelle was born in both the artistic and activist worlds and has spent her life bringing those two realms together. Listen to Joanelle share stories about her many years’ being an artist and humanitarian, and from where she draws all the necessary strength in a climate where the Native American—and especially the Native woman—is absent from virtually all popular media.
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Why have LA rental prices stopped rising?
Curbed LA quoted Richard Green of the USC Lusk Center on how steady rent growth in Los Angeles may be slowing down. Richard Green, director of the Lusk Center for Real Estate at USC, tells Curbed that steady rent growth may be slowing in response to new housing construction in the Los Angeles area. …
Kindred
“I lost an arm on my last trip home.
My left arm.”
The iconic first line of Octavia Butler’s novel, Kindred, puts the reader right there. The gravity of the legacy of slavery is there in the face. Who has lost an arm? How? Why?
Listen as host Jeffery Jenkins and guests Ange-Marie Alfaro, Caroline Bhalla, and Aubrey Hicks as they think about this classic work of American fiction.
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