LA County data shows Black residents with the lowest vaccination rate of all racial groups
Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the low vaccination rates of Black residents in Los Angeles County. “One of the hidden costs of discrimination is that it can rob a community that’s been discriminated against of trust and confidence in the Read more…
Police Unions Spent Millions To Beat Back Reform in Los Angeles. They Lost Big Time.
HuffPost featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the Los Angeles County district attorney election. “I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that the second most important race in this country was the race for L.A. DA. This is the linchpin for mass incarceration.” Full article here
From the Black Death to AIDS, pandemics have shaped human history. Coronavirus will too
Marlon Boarnet was quoted in the Los Angeles Times about how pandemics have shaped cities.
Congratulations to our ED, honored in the 2020 Impact-Makers to Watch Awards
Congratulations to our Executive Director, Aubrey Hicks, on being honored next week as an “Impact-Maker to Watch” for 2020. The annual Impact-Makers to Watch Awards honors leaders making a positive impact in Los Angeles. Honorees are designated by LA leaders, including members of the LA City Council and Board of Read more…
Here’s what happens when you report a sexual assault in Los Angeles
LAist quoted Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro of the USC Dornsife College on what happens to those who report sexual assaults in Los Angeles. “Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro, Chair of Gender Studies at USC, said the underreporting is part of the reason many women don’t know exactly what a rape kit entails. “People Read more…
LA population shrinking, even as larger region still grows
CNBC quoted Richard Green of the USC Lusk Center on how housing is affecting Los Angeles’ population growth. “Los Angeles is just not growing,” said Richard Green, director of the University of Southern California’s Lusk Center for Real Estate. “A lot of [the reason] is housing, and not just the cost of housing Read more…
Where growing up depends on the wind; on building lives near freeways
by Casey Fischl The American Lung Association’s State of the Air 2017 Report identified Los Angeles as the number one polluted city by ozone and number four by particulate pollution. Low-income, communities of color in Los Angeles suffer from disproportionate exposure to this health degrading pollution. A key example of Read more…
Second annual City Managers’ Summit focuses on employee satisfaction, climate change, leadership
by Matthew Kredell The USC Price School of Public Policy partnered with the California Contract Cities Association (CCCA) to host the second annual City Managers’ Summit, which fostered important discussions around key policy issues such as climate change, economic development, leadership and the role of women in city management. Professor Read more…
Building Communities of Hope Across Los Angeles
Cisionquoted LaVonna Lewisof the USC Price School on a project that will provide a platfrom for shared learning and understanding between students and communities in Los Angeles. During the first phase of this collective, Procovery Institute will be working with LaVonna Lewis, PhD, MPH, Teaching Professor of Public Policy, and Read more…
Measure B Could Eventually Keep Your Local Tax Dollars out of Major Private Banks
L.A. Tacoquoted Nicolas Duquetteof the USC Price School on Measure B, an initiative that could open the doors for a Los Angeles public bank. “I don’t think it’s as radical as people think it is,” says Nicolas Duquette, a public-policy professor at the University of Southern California. “There are plenty Read more…
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 Read more…
Calculations show bullet train can complete route within 2 hours and 40 minutes. Reality may prove slower
Los Angeles Timesquoted Lisa Schweitzerof 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. The trains would also have to sail through Fresno, Bakersfield, Palmdale and other communities at 220 miles per hour, speeds Read more…
LA rental prices are on an upward crawl
Curbed LAcited comments by Richard Greenof the USC Lusk Center on how the increasing supply of apartments has impacted Los Angeles’ housing crisis. Why are prices starting to plateau? Last month, Richard Green, director of the Lusk Center for Real Estate at USC, speculated that new housing construction has increased Read more…
“You can hold someone accountable and hold them at the same time.”
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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.”
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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 Read more…
Why have LA rental prices stopped rising?
Curbed LAquoted Richard Greenof 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 Read more…
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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“The question of access is about audience and participation, and being able to deliver.”
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