http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/uclaspa/rss Recent eScholarship items from UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Thu, 6 Aug 2026 16:11:35 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4h71j6p6 The Lineage Logistics Fire in Boyle Heights: What community vulnerabilities should an equitable emergency response account for? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4h71j6p6 Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Pech, Chhandara Ong, Paul Silver, Julia Gonzalez, Silvia Bustamante, Arturo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-5015 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4516q0p7 The Lineage Logistics Fire in Boyle Heights: Who Lives and Works in the Smoke Zone? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4516q0p7 Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Gonzalez, Silvia Silver, Julia Pech, Chhandara Bustamante, Arturo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-5015 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9609w06v Historic Designation and Housing Production in Los Angeles https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9609w06v Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Avery, Larson https://escholarship.org/uc/item/76x0g7jt Building Green, Staying Affordable: Sustainability Development Strategies for Little Tokyo’s Mangrove Site https://escholarship.org/uc/item/76x0g7jt Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Peng, Zixuan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/55397474 Strengthening Housing Recovery for Renters and Informally Housed Residents After the L.A. Fires https://escholarship.org/uc/item/55397474 Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Greenwood, Stella Gorman, Jennifer Rich, Megan Ruiz, Derrick Willmott-McMahon, Theresa https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7qt8q1n8 Dignity by Design: Public Restrooms as Essential Transportation Infrastructure https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7qt8q1n8 Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Mata, Stacy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6sf6n56s Transit Safety Past the Peak: Centering Vulnerable Riders in Mobility Hub Design https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6sf6n56s Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Valente, Luis https://escholarship.org/uc/item/50r4h1bk Understanding Elevated Soft Costs in Affordable Housing Development: Lessons from the City of Los Angeles https://escholarship.org/uc/item/50r4h1bk Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Shin, Elizabeth https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3zv01330 Enhancing Regional Support for Community Land Trusts: An Approach to Lasting Housing Affordabilityin Southern California https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3zv01330 Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Corpuz, Kyla Marie https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0w83t4hh How Los Angeles Can Improve its Delivery and Maintenance of Protected Bike Lanes (and Why it Should) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0w83t4hh Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Wilcox, Micah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/60c5t443 Addressing the Latino Physician Shortage: Briefing Proceedings https://escholarship.org/uc/item/60c5t443 Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bustamante, Arturo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-5015 Balderas-Anaya, Yohualli https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0pz0b60h Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0pz0b60h Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bustamante, Arturo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-5015 Morales, Leo Ortega, Alexander https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8x08k3wp United States (U.S.) - Mexico bi-national insurance efforts and the prospective impacts of healthcare reforms in the U.S. and Mexico https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8x08k3wp Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bustamante, Arturo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-5015 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0g13r1h2 La nueva relación entre la sociedad y los partidos políticos en la formacion de una cultura politica democratica en el México del Siglo XXI https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0g13r1h2 Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bustamante, Arturo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-5015 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9qw7n38h Programa de Acción: Protección Financiera en Salud https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9qw7n38h Thu, 9 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bustamante, Arturo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-5015 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ks1n980 Policy Options: Gulf of California/Colorado River Basin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ks1n980 Thu, 9 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bustamante, Arturo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-5015 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4g82c8g5 Book Review: Ramírez López, B. (coord), La Seguridad Social, Reformas y Retos https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4g82c8g5 Thu, 9 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bustamante, Arturo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-5015 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/33m743vb La reforma al sistema de salud en Estados Unidos: implementación y participación social https://escholarship.org/uc/item/33m743vb Thu, 9 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bustamante, Arturo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-5015 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1zm7w3s3 Analysis of Assembly Bill 1800: Health Care Coverage https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1zm7w3s3 Thu, 9 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bustamante, Arturo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-5015 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1x43x1h8 Analysis of Assembly Bill 137: Mammography https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1x43x1h8 Thu, 9 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bustamante, Arturo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-5015 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1mb1b1p7 Determining Preferences and Willingness-to-Pay for Cross- Border Health Insurance: Requirements for a Pilot Project https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1mb1b1p7 Thu, 9 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bustamante, Arturo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-5015 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/191959pp Perspectivas del Turismo Médico en México https://escholarship.org/uc/item/191959pp Thu, 9 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bustamante, Arturo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-5015 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/17t0s33b La Reforma de 1995 a los Servicios Médicos del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social https://escholarship.org/uc/item/17t0s33b Thu, 9 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bustamante, Arturo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-5015 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0798v7kc Book Review: Solis Soberón, F and A Villagómez https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0798v7kc Thu, 9 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bustamante, Arturo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-5015 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/00v748g2 Analysis of Senate Bill 173: Mammograms https://escholarship.org/uc/item/00v748g2 Thu, 9 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bustamante, Arturo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-5015 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8993b2rj Los Sistemas de Salud: ¿Cuál es el aporte para el logro de comunidades saludables? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8993b2rj Wed, 8 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Méndez, Claudio Illanes, Javiera Bustamante, Arturo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-5015 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0b94m119 New Federal Loan Limits and 7 Facts about Medical Student Loan Borrowers https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0b94m119 Wed, 8 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Torres Sanchez, Miriam Majano, Rosario Raya, Jonathan Bustamante, Arturo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-5015 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9jd5b632 Which Freeway Corridors in Los Angeles Can Support Regional Bus Service? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9jd5b632 Mon, 6 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Sanchez, Ivan E, III https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8cc135j8 This client project, prepared for the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT), investigates wayfinding, lighting, and public realm strategies to improve safety and accessibility at bus and rail stations throughout the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The project is built around LADOT’s Integrated Mobility Hubs (IMH) project and leverages concurrent planning efforts for the 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games to advance long-term transportation equity goals. This project centers nighttime transit users, including third-shift travelers, low-income and transit-dependent riders, and women, who disproportionately experience unsafe transit environments.The project relied on a mixed-methods research design consisting of surveys, observation mapping, and case studies with informational interviews to inform policy and design recommendations for IMH sites, including the Pico Station of the Los Angeles Metro rail and bus network. Findings show that riders view cleanliness, lighting,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8cc135j8 Mon, 6 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Valente, Luis https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5hs9s32s Transit trips can be taxing even for the most adaptable riders. In Los Angeles, many transit users are low-income individuals, youth, senior citizens, and people with disabilities. Together, they represent a large share of the city’s riders and they need support to travel reliably. To meet that need, Integrated Mobility Hubs (IMH) will be implemented by the end of 2027 to be present for the Olympic and Paralympic games. These hubs are designed to support the entire journey of transit riders. Public transportation in Los Angeles frequently requires long, multi-provider trips and extended wait times. Many journeys involve navigating between modes and transitioning outdoors in adverse weather. Each of these challenges erodes reliability and consistency for riders. Well-designed mobility hubs counteract transit obstacles by making journeys safer, more comfortable, and accessible for everyone. The goal is to transform Metro rail stations and their accompanying mobility hubs into approachable... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5hs9s32s Mon, 6 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Mata, Stacy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4nd5q947 The January 2025 Eaton and Palisades wildfires destroyed or damaged nearly 18,000 structures across Los Angeles County, displacing thousands of households and exacerbating an already severe affordable housing crisis. This report, prepared for the Los Angeles County Development Authority (LACDA) as a UCLA Master in Public Policy Applied Policy Project, examines the housing recovery challenges facing low-income and informally housed renters displaced by the fires and evaluates policy options to strengthen LACDA's disaster housing response.Using a mixed-methods approach — including survey data analysis from over 2,300 affected residents, geospatial analysis of parcel-level fire damage, rental market analysis, legal and policy document review, stakeholder interviews, and comparative case studies — the report documents that renters faced substantially worse recovery outcomes than homeowners. An estimated 1,770 to 6,280 informally housed residents were displaced, and post-fire rents... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4nd5q947 Mon, 6 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Greenwood, Stella Gorman, Jennifer Rich, Megan Ruiz, Derrick Willmott-McMahon, Theresa https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4jp8j7r6 The Mangrove site is a 4.1-acre city-owned parcel in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, and one of the last large publicly owned undeveloped sites in a neighborhood navigating displacement pressure, cultural preservation, and climate vulnerability. This report, developed in partnership with the Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC), examines how the site's future affordable housing development can advance a sustainability strategy that is both environmentally meaningful and feasible under nonprofit operating conditions.The research draws on semi-structured interviews with LTSC staff and external experts, a food waste survey of local businesses, comparative case studies of heritage district sustainability initiatives, utility consumption data from LTSC-managed properties, and secondary technical data on solar potential and green infrastructure performance.Key findings show that sustainability in this context is most credible when it reduces long-term utility costs, remains operationally manageable... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4jp8j7r6 Mon, 6 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Peng, Zixuan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3z35r0v7 The City of Los Angeles has two transportation entities responsible for building protected bike lanes—bicycle lanes that are physically separated from motor vehicle traffic lanes. Building protected bike lanes is a goal that Los Angeles established in its mobility plan, Mobility Plan 2035, that the City Council passed 11 years ago. In 2024, city voters passed an initiative, Measure HLA, to prompt quicker implementation of this plan; the initiative’s website noted that the city had only completed five percent of the plan. However, even since Measure HLA’s passage, Los Angeles has not delivered protected bike lanes faster or at scale, nor has it appeared to maintain existing protected bike lanes. For my client, FASTLinkDTLA, I investigated how Los Angeles could improve its management and delivery of protected bike lanes. Through my research, which spanned a literature review, interviews with seven planners in more bike-friendly American cities outside Los Angeles, and interviews... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3z35r0v7 Mon, 6 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Wilcox, Micah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2td2f596 Los Angeles faces one of the most severe housing affordability crises in the United States, driven in-part by restrictive zoning and land use controls, high construction costs, and design-related expenses. Ward’s “The High Cost of Producing Multifamily Housing in California” determines that architectural and engineering fees in Los Angeles are significantly higher than in comparable California jurisdictions, with prescriptive design requirements cited as a contributing factor. This project seeks to evaluate the role of Los Angeles Housing Department’s (LAHD) Architectural Design Guidelines on the cost and feasibility of affordable housing development. This project investigates why design-related costs appear to be higher for affordable housing developments in the City of Los Angeles than for comparable projects in neighboring cities, and whether the Design Guidelines may contribute to those differences. Through stakeholder interviews, cost analysis, and comparative review of housing... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2td2f596 Mon, 6 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Shin, Elizabeth https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9b7649m9 As part of the Climate Action–Community-driven eLectric vEhicle chArging solutioN (CA–CLEAN) project, researchers at the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation worked to improve procedural equity in the siting of public electric vehicle (EV) charging stations by co-designing charging infrastructure with communities. The team partnered with three community-based organizations across the City of Los Angeles, including Pacoima Beautiful. Between 2024 and 2025, the team held three workshops in each community to understand residents’ perspectives and preferences regarding EVs and public charging. This guide 1) summarizes what the community shared during the workshops and through written surveys, 2) presents key challenges and opportunities, and 3) provides an overview of pathways to charger installation. It also provides a list of financial resources to support EV purchases and home charging. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9b7649m9 Thu, 2 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Connolly, Rachel Pierce, Gregory Castillo, Connor Padilla, Veronica Vo-Ramirez, Quyen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/78c80765 As part of the Climate Action–Community-driven eLectric vEhicle chArging solutioN (CA–CLEAN) project, researchers at the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation worked to improve procedural equity in the siting of public electric vehicle (EV) charging stations by co-designing charging infrastructure with communities. The team partnered with three community-based organizations across the City of Los Angeles, including Redeemer Community Partnership in Pacoima. Between 2024 and 2025, the team held three workshops in each community to understand residents’ perspectives and preferences regarding EVs and public charging. This guide summarizes 1) what the community shared during the workshops and through written surveys, 2) presents key challenges and opportunities, and 3) provides an overview of pathways to charger installation. It also provides a list of financial resources to support EV purchases and home charging. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/78c80765 Thu, 2 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Connolly, Rachel Pierce, Gregory Castillo, Connor Pulido, Ricardo https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5vw2k6wc Born into Uncertainty: The Health and Social Costs of Ending Birthright Citizenship https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5vw2k6wc Thu, 2 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Felix Beltran, Lucia Majano, Rosario Ismail, Ahmad Zong, Jie Gonzalez, Silvia Bustamante, Arturo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-5015 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0p9762cx Community land trusts are gaining momentum, emerging as an innovative place-based model that is contributing to Southern California's affordable housing landscape. This report, prepared for the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), analyzes established and emerging community land trusts in the region and examines how this model increases housing supply, produces lasting affordability, and empowers residents to engage in shared governance.Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, this report provides an in-depth analysis of two established community land trusts. Key personnel from the case study organizations and other partners were interviewed, accompanied by an analysis of their development strategy, financing mechanisms and demographic data. Results from the comparative analysis highlight publicly-initiated and grassroots models as significant implementation pathways in Southern California. These models, however, diverge in their outcomes, reflecting differences in... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0p9762cx Thu, 2 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Corpuz, Kyla Marie https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7fh371cj The City of Los Angeles states that the “primary mission” of the Comprehensive Cleaning and Rapid Engagement (CARE+) program is to “deliver services to the individuals experiencing homelessness within their service areas.” While CARE+ costs taxpayers tens of millions of dollars each year, not even including law enforcement, what does this budget translate into on the ground? Conducted by the CD11 Coalition for Human Rights and Venice Justice Committee,&nbsp;<em>Very Large Expenditure, Very Little Care: Los Angeles’ “CARE+” Homeless Services Program in Council District 11&nbsp;</em>reports findings from repeat observation of CARE+ operations in Venice, a related survey of unhoused persons about displacement and outreach, and a review of Councilmember Traci Park’s communications about CARE+ and homeless encampments. The report finds that CARE+ employs a large number of City staff and equipment to displace and dispossess unhoused people, with little to no outreach for shelter or... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7fh371cj Wed, 1 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Kennedy, Peggy Lee Lutzker, Sam Tilly, Chris https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6j0987zj Caltrans District 7 freeway corridors require evaluation to determine their capacity to support effective, high-capacity regional bus-based trunk service. While freeways serve as the region’s mobility backbone, transit performance remains uneven due to institutional fragmentation and infrastructure constraints. This analysis identifies the conditions required for reliable, all-day service and applies them to a regional screening framework.The study uses a comparative case study approach, examining U.S. freeway corridors and international high-capacity busway systems using a consistent unit of comparison: Type 1 all-day trunk services. Quantitative performance indicators, including ridership, reliability, and cost efficiency, are paired with agency documentation and practitioner input to identify recurring drivers of performance.Five core factors govern corridor outcomes: right-of-way continuity, trunk consolidation, station interface and throughput, governance coordination, and... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6j0987zj Wed, 1 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Sanchez, Ivan E, III https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9f22g6bq Transportation costs place a disproportionate financial burden on low-income households. Families in the lowest income quintile spend roughly 32 percent of their household income on transportation, which combined with housing costs, can consume nearly all their available budget. Transit affordability is typically addressed by providing discounted public transit fares. But transit alone cannot meet every trip need, and without access to a car or other affordable alternatives low-income travelers may forgo trips — reducing social connections, limiting employment opportunities, and eroding their well-being. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9f22g6bq Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Butler, Tamika L. Kim, Sang-O, PhD Wander, Madeline, PhD Blumenberg, Evelyn, PhD Brozen, Madeline https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4x17p4tx As part of the developmental stage of emerging adulthood, youth may cultivate critical consciousness (CC) to transform oppressive systems. CC development may be influenced by discriminatory experiences and may affect well-being. To better understand longitudinal CC development and its relationship to discrimination and well-being (i.e., perceived stress, anxiety, hopefulness), we studied a U.S. national longitudinal cohort of emerging adult college students between the ages of 18 and 22 at baseline (<i>M</i>_age = 20.0, <i>SD</i> = 1.3) who completed four surveys between April 2020 and July 2021 (<i>N</i> = 684). The analytic sample was 63% women and 37% men (gender-diverse participants were removed due to small sample size) and 26% lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer/questioning, and other minoritized sexual identities. Self-identified race/ethnicity backgrounds were 54% white, 20% Asian/Pacific Islander, 9% Latinx, 5% Black, and 10% multiple races/ethnicities and/or as Middle... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4x17p4tx Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Castro, Elena Maker Suzuki, Sara Hoyt, Lindsay T Wray-Lake, Laura https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6091-4440 Cohen, Alison K https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3gh1f970 Wildfires are destroying homes, displacing communities, and driving escalating costs, prompting new interest in “managed retreat” as a potential response. This report examines whether managed retreat—the process of relocating homes and infrastructure away from high-risk areas, typically those prone to flooding—can be effective, equitable, and feasible in wildfire contexts. Drawing on a 2024 UCLA workshop with researchers, practitioners, and community leaders, we synthesize key themes, tensions, and knowledge gaps. Findings highlight the importance of land management, coordinated (not piecemeal) approaches, and the social, cultural, and political complexity of relocation. The report underscores that retreat is not a one-size-fits-all solution, and calls for targeted research and local community-informed planning to guide future policy and practice. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3gh1f970 Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Koslov, Liz McConnell, Katherine https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9pg5m64c <p>Scholars have readily illustrated how European settlers’ colonial ideas of property influenced the formation of race. Yet, as the role of land and property changed within an American context, so too did the relationship between race and property. With emancipation and urbanization, cities began to confront racial mixing, leading to a movement to racialize not just individual property, but also entire places. This resulting racialization of place became acutely challenging for communities of color in the mid-century with the implementation of the new interstate highway system. While the disastrous impact of the highway system on communities of color has been increasingly researched, scholars have paid far less attention to how race shaped individuals’ propertied realities in the face of these federal and local actions. Using Austin, Texas, as a case study, I examine how the planning for the Interregional Highway 35 (IH-35) threatened Anglo, Black, and Mexican East Austin residents’... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9pg5m64c Tue, 9 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Winkler-Schor, Lilith https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6b83f1jt <p>Over the past ten years, we have endeavored to build a liberated zone within our university. The UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy is a tiny (but we think mighty) center that undertakes research and scholarship for the purpose of dismantling structures of inequality and creating reparative public goods. We do so by accompanying social movements and communities on the frontlines of dispossession and displacement through practices of research justice. In May 2025, we invited Naomi Klein to deliver the Institute’s Distinguished Lecture in Ideas and Organizing because she embodies the ethos of the Institute. Klein’s magisterial text, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, published in 2007 and translated into scores of languages, has given us all unprecedented insight into how world-ending activities are made profitable. It demands that we take seriously the crises wrought by the unending emergency that is racial capitalism and the capitalization of... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6b83f1jt Tue, 9 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Roy, Ananya Appel, Hannah Goh, Kian https://escholarship.org/uc/item/65d8g553 <p>The accessibility audit is a largely underutilized tool of disabled community engagement in the design process. This essay shares four case studies of accessibility audits facilitated between 2021 and 2024 for four separate groups of landscape architects, designers, and students. Its methodology is centered in disability justice and crip theory. In the attempt to illustrate how to conduct an accessibility audit by including direct participation of disabled stakeholders and disabled designers and experts, the goal is to assist the landscape architecture and urban design professions in deviating from the usage of sensitivity studies (or disability simulations), which are inappropriate, misguided, and outdated attempts at measuring site accessibility. In this way, designers and students might learn to prioritize disabled lived experience in the design process.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/65d8g553 Tue, 9 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Vaughn, Alexa https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5pf6x873 <p>This paper examines how lobbying redirected Land Value Capture (LVC) during Mexico City’s 2016 constitution-drafting process by acting at procedural margins and legislative stages. Using process tracing of drafts, committee reports, floor records, temporary provisions, and media, it reconstructs the sequence: the committee added LVC duties tied to areas of influence; early floor debate removed them; a late compromise adopted weaker mitigation language; a temporary article reset thresholds to existing regulatory limits; later, criteria were delegated to executive agencies. It also shows that the participatory phase expanded input but did not carry into bargaining, limiting citizen influence when decisions were made. The findings indicate agenda control by organized real estate interests that converted enforceable capture into mitigation and shifted the fiscal burden away from redistribution, with disproportionate impacts on renters and low-income districts at the urban fringe.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5pf6x873 Tue, 9 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Gutierrez Flores, Andres Demetrio https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1641-2029 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/52g9p2h0 <p>Interview with writer, journalist, and organizer Tracy J. Rosenthal about their new book Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis. In it, we talked about their experience co-founding the LA Tenants Union, the history of working class movements in LA, and the synergies between environmental and tenant activism in light of the LA wildfires. The conversation was motivated by a central puzzle: Los Angeles takes up a large role in urban theory, especially the neo-Marxist school of the 1970s, and those descriptions of the city are deeply cynical. Classic accounts emphasize policing, elite “pleasure domes,” and hostility to working-class people and their movements. At the same time, it is the locus of Rosenthal's efforts, and the largest tenants’ union in the country. We spoke in depth about the opportunities and challenges of organizing in this geography, and how place affected Rosenthal's and their comrades’ strategies.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/52g9p2h0 Tue, 9 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lalla, Rohan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3sc9p73x <p>People cannot be economically mobile if they are not able to be mobile. People cannot access employment, healthcare, or education if they cannot get there. Transportation policy and decision-making has been dominated by white, male, able-bodied, cisgender engineers (Frisch, 2002; Lowe, 2021). As a result, many of the decisions made by transportation policymakers lack the grounding in racial justice or the life experiences of the most vulnerable users (Barajas, 2021; Frisch, 2002; Lowe, 2021; Lowe et al., 2023; Vigar, 2017).&nbsp;In City Limits, Megan Kimble aims to pull back the curtain on transportation decision-making and the effects of those decisions as she takes the reader through the journey of how a highway gets built and who it violently destroys in the process. Divided into three sections, City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways, uses three Texas cities and freeways as case studies to detail the fight for and against Houston’s... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3sc9p73x Tue, 9 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Butler, Tamika https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3ck0k10t <p>This is a review of geographer Lindsey Dillon's 2024 book&nbsp;<em>Toxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice in San Francisco</em>.&nbsp;A majority of the book describes remediation following the designation of a former Naval shipyard for Superfund. But Dillon provincializes the US Navy as one in a series of polluters who produced southeastern San Francisco as a wasteland (Voyles, 2015) and, consequently, as one of several political bodies invested in its quick conversion into developable land. Against the displacing forces of redevelopment, Dillon charts a continuous history of Black-led activism. Since the 1960s, Black activists in southeastern SF understood housing, health care, and jobs as fundamentally environmental issues. Dillon argues that we understand their efforts at “counterplanning” as environmental justice work that precedes and exceeds the field’s codification in the 1980s and 90s.</p> <p>The book’s third chapter, “The Politics of Environmental Repair”... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3ck0k10t Tue, 9 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Scott, Ben Barsotti https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0zc4f21q Writing and Witnessing https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0zc4f21q Tue, 9 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 B., S. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27m3f44r <p>Increased population and need for public services, coupled with a lack of public spaces have driven the Los Angeles Central Library to evolve over time, offering civic resources and becoming a communal place that goes beyond the traditional understanding of a library. Despite decreased staffing, the connection to and provision of services from the library to external spaces—both physical and virtual—has increased dramatically. The institution continues to adapt to the dynamic social, economic, and climatic needs of its patrons, especially those most vulnerable among Angelenos. The Central Library and the librarians who sustain it occupy a space between public commons, civil refuge, social services coordinator, and educational resource conglomerate. As public spaces become less accessible, library patrons have more frequently sought access to social and technical services in the Central Library.</p> <p>We seek to understand the Central Library’s role in providing essential public... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27m3f44r Mon, 8 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Wynne, Jordan Frye, Dustin Arreguin Gomez, Ana Portlock, Cristy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1gf673jg On Books and Book Reviews in Planning https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1gf673jg Thu, 4 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Millard-Ball, Adam https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2353-8730 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/100481pv Charging ahead unfairly: An examination of temporal Shifts in electric vehicle supply equipment accessibility across California's communities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/100481pv Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Kuai, Chenchen Mugodzeri, Daisy Bills, Tierra S https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nx6r7qk <p>The <a href="https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/publication/the-los-angeles-residential-energy-transition-tool/">Los Angeles Residential Energy Transition (L.A. RESET) Tool</a> estimates how household energy use and bills across Los Angeles will be affected by two major factors: the transition to renewable energy and home electrification. UCLA researchers designed the L.A. RESET Tool for the L.A. Department of Water and Power (LADWP) to inform the LA100 Plan, the utility’s roadmap to achieve 100% carbon-free electricity.</p><p>This technical guide documents the tool’s logic, data sources, capabilities, scenarios, and variables. The 2026 technical guide reflects updated LADWP electricity rate projections and a modified household income estimation method. The <a href="https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Technical-Handbook-for-the-Los-Angeles-Residential-Energy-Transition-Tool.pdf">2025 handbook</a> documents the original tool design and data as presented... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nx6r7qk Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Sheinberg, Rachel Callan, Will Dunlap, Lauren https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5qh7b9xx Introduction: Population aging is a growing global policy and health challenge. The World Health Organization's Age-Friendly Cities and Communities (AFCCs) framework has guided efforts to create supportive environments for older adults. Methods: This study conducts a systematic review of AFCC literature and policies in China and global contexts. The goal is to examine how China-a developing country with the world's largest older population and unique challenges from rapid urbanization-compares to other global contexts in its response to aging. Results and discussion: The review reveals key differences of AFCC policies between China and other global regions, which include varying priorities in mobility, employment, and education policies; divergent implementation approaches; broad visions versus specific standards. Some of the differences in context-specific issues are tied to different urbanization phases. On the other hand, shared challenges include financial issues that constrain... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5qh7b9xx Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Zhang, Chendi Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4rb347f7 Disaster recovery after wildfires is often framed as rebuilding to restore communities to their pre-disaster condition. We argue that recovery following a disaster can also function as a mechanism of spatial governance that produces exclusionary development by shaping who is able to return. Focusing on recovery after the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise, California, we combine 35 semi-structured interviews with residential insurance data and neighborhood-level changes in housing and labor characteristics. We show that post-fire rebuilding is increasingly structured by the interaction of fire-adaptive regulations, building codes, and insurance market behavior, which together raise the financial thresholds for reconstruction. As recovery proceeds, informal, low-cost, and ad-hoc housing is displaced by formal, risk-managed, and insurable development, reshaping both the physical geography and the social composition of wildfire-affected neighborhoods. In the context of increasingly catastrophic... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4rb347f7 Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lambrou, Nicole Zhang, Chendi Kolden, Crystal Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4nq6w0gb BackgroundUnderstanding how urban environments stimulate routine physical activity is a central issue in public health. Running, as a low-threshold and widely accessible exercise, serves as a sensitive indicator of environmental influence. Yet, few studies have used methods capable of capturing the non-linear and context-dependent interactions through which multiple built-environment factors jointly shape running. This study investigates the spatiotemporal patterns of running and identifies how combinations of environmental features across different urban scenarios affect behavioural activation.MethodsWe analysed 83,302 GPS-tracked running trajectories from Beijing. Built-environment indicators were integrated across five dimensions and examined using Light Gradient Boosting Machine with SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP). To enhance behavioural interpretability, variables were grouped into scenario-informed contexts representing commuting, restorative, and training environments.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4nq6w0gb Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Qiu, Cailin Zhang, Chendi Qiu, Ning Han, Xinyu Zhang, Tianjie https://escholarship.org/uc/item/57z5g3n5 Thinking from Los Angeles, amid the expanding criminalization of homelessness, we advance a conceptual framework of encampment geographies. We argue that the homeless encampment must be understood in relation to state power, specifically the state as landlord. As residents of state spaces—sidewalks, shelters, interim housing—encampment dwellers are institutionalized. This includes interpellation in humanitarian exchange, notably through forms of mutual aid that emerge in the interstices of state violence. Drawing on ethnographic research and movement histories at Aetna Street, we present three encampment geographies: return, refuge, and refusal. We conceptualize the encampment as a site of enforced return and a space of refuge whose residents are akin to refugees. In doing so, we situate the homeless encampment in a global geography of camps, drawing on literatures that are attentive to expulsion, containment, and asylum. Yet encampment residents refuse enclosure, in particular,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/57z5g3n5 Fri, 8 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Roy, Ananya Orendorff, Carla https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7h1128d7 Background: Violence against children (VAC) in Uganda is recognized as an urgent dilemma; however, most research has been quantitatively oriented and has seldom involved children in the research process. Objective: We discuss what we learned about child participation in the research process as a means of informing ethical praxis in future child- and youth-led research initiatives. As an overarching aim of this paper, we utilize our engagement with YPAR as a springboard to reflect on methodological best practices for VAC research that involve children themselves as part of a movement to democratize the research process. Participants and Setting: The study includes street-connected children (40), sexually exploited children (19) and domestic workers (34) in Kampala. Methods: The YPAR team led participant observation, 52 semi-structured life history interviews, 31 auto-photographic exercises, and 4 focus groups. All data collection, analysis and dissemination activities were... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7h1128d7 Wed, 6 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ritterbusch, Amy E Boothby, Neil Mugumya, Firminus Wanican, Joyce Bangirana, Clare Nyende, Noah Ampumuza, Doreen Apota, John Mbabazi, Cate Nabukenya, Christine Kayongo, Adam Ssembatya, Fred Meyer, Sarah R https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5kd7w85s Public health research and health equity threatened by new US policies: impact and opportunities for Latin America https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5kd7w85s Wed, 6 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Sáenz, Rocío Castro, Arachu Avellaneda, Ximena Cáceres, Carlos F Gómez, Ingrid López, Wendy Mas, Pedro Navarro, Natalia Quesada, Jossel Ritterbusch, Amy Sancho, Wilmer Solís, Luis Fernando Urbina, Manuel Network of the Americas, Board of Directors and Technical Secretariat of the Health Equity https://escholarship.org/uc/item/434624bm Through qualitative data collected with women affected by drug use and drug-related violence in Bogotá, this article explores the convergence of harm reduction rationales and violence prevention programming in the urban margins to advocate for women's health empowerment and health rights as victims of intergenerational trauma and violence. We propose a methodological shift of public health praxis from street-based outreach models to intimate spaces of intervention for health outcomes embodiment ¹ as we continue to develop our community health model to work with marginalised communities in the urban global South. Through this work committed to social justice in marginalised urban communities, we seek to support women's health needs through harm reduction in historically marginalised communities in urban settings. Our results expose how multi-level gender-based violence affects women's health in their living spaces in the urban margins. Drawing from women's voices and... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/434624bm Wed, 6 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ritterbusch, Amy E Niño, Eliana Lizeth Pinzon Páez, Ricardo Antonio Reyes Triana, Julie Pardo Peña, Daniela Jaime Correa-Salazar, Catalina https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0c6806m4 Newark, New Jersey implemented a voting age of 16 for school board elections in April of 2025. This research brief presents findings from a multi-method implementation study. We interviewed 11 stakeholders about implementation successes and challenges. Qualitative insights were supplemented by survey findings from 334 11th and 12th graders in Newark. Implementation successes included high registration numbers and strong coalition building across organizations. However, Newark faced challenges to implementation, including limited accessibility, voter education, and time. These findings can inform Newark and other cities interested in implementing a lower voting age. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0c6806m4 Tue, 5 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Wray-Lake, Laura https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6091-4440 Mirra, Nicole Rottenberg, Julia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3ck8k9qz Scholars of youth civic development have assessed agency using a wide range of constructs, including motivation, efficacy, empowerment, and sociopolitical control. We propose a multidimensional framework and describe the development and validation of a measure of civic agency, conceptualized as competence, drive, individual power, and collective power. In Study 1, we developed a set of items and employed exploratory factor analysis with a pilot sample of adolescents (N = 295, M_age = 17.1, 65.4% youth of color, 47.9% female, 15.8% nonbinary), which supported our hypothesized four-factor model of civic agency. In Study 2, we conducted confirmatory factor analysis of our final items with a separate adolescent sample (N = 1120, M_age = 16.2, 73.0% youth of color, 55.7% female, 23.3% nonbinary), which demonstrated measurement invariance on race/ethnicity, gender, and age. In Study 3, we validated our scale in a sample of young activists (N = 342, M_age = 19.1,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3ck8k9qz Mon, 4 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Wegemer, Christopher M Wray‐Lake, Laura Hope, Elan C Maurin‐Waters, Emily Arce, M Alejandra https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ps4648c Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness. Drawing on five years of ethnography, we foreground how homeless persons become proficient in the law as well as in self‐advocacy, navigating and resisting state power, be it the edicts of criminalization or the labyrinth of bureaucratization. In doing so, we seek to understand housing justice as rights from below as well as a process of making right, a form of redress for perceived injuries. Our conceptual framework of common sense law derives from the specificity of the North American context where homeless personhood is constituted both within and against liberal arrangements of property. Often deployed in spaces such as the street, where property arrangements are... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ps4648c Fri, 1 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Roy, Ananya Blake, Jennifer Nair, Meghna Stephens, Pamela https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3hc1g1vt As catastrophic wildfires grow more frequent and severe across the western United States, water systems face rising pressure to support emergency response while continuing to provide safe drinking water, maintain financial stability, and protect affordability. This report examines a central, but largely unexplored issue: how water systems should finance infrastructure and services related to wildfire preparedness and response. Drawing on a January 2026 workshop convened by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation with UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, the report synthesizes insights from 54 participants representing water systems, fire agencies, regulators, nonprofit organizations, technical experts, and researchers. The workshop found that existing infrastructure, legal frameworks, and funding mechanisms are poorly suited to support major wildfire-specific investments. Expanding fire-flow capacity could strain affordability, water quality, and system viability, especially for... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3hc1g1vt Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Pierce, Gregory Gorman, Jennifer Kearns, Faith de Guzman, Edith Porse, Erik Salcedo, Camilo Mullin, Megan El-Khattabi, Ahmed Rachid https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2d66s2sp <p>Building electrification is critical to reducing emissions, but many low-income households face cost, complexity, and administrative barriers that limit participation. This report evaluates the 2025 Community Contractor Pilot in Los Angeles County’s Gateway Cities, which integrates early home assessments and case management into Southern California Edison’s Charge Ready Home program.</p><p>Using program data, documentation, and stakeholder interviews, the study examines how this model affects participation and program efficiency. Findings show that early contractor involvement, dedicated case management, and streamlined processes improved application rates, increased follow-through, and reduced timelines and customer burden.</p><p>These results underscore the need for approaches that build trust, simplify processes, and assess feasibility upfront. The report calls for expanding case management models, developing a universal home assessment, and better aligning programs to reduce... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2d66s2sp Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Dunlap, Lauren Yang, Sooji Pierce, Gregory https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9hm4z8z9 Abstract Treating images as data has become increasingly popular in political science. While existing classifiers for images reach high levels of accuracy, it is difficult to systematically assess the visual features on which they base their classification. This paper presents a two-level classification method that addresses this transparency problem. At the first stage, an image segmenter detects the objects present in the image and a feature vector is created from those objects. In the second stage, this feature vector is used as input for standard machine learning classifiers to discriminate between images. We apply this method to a new dataset of more than 140,000 images to detect which ones display political protest. This analysis demonstrates three advantages to this paper’s approach. First, identifying objects in images improves transparency by providing human-understandable labels for the objects shown on an image. Second, knowing these objects enables analysis of which... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9hm4z8z9 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Scholz, Stefan Weidmann, Nils B Steinert-Threlkeld, Zachary C https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5122-9660 Keremoğlu, Eda Goldlücke, Bastian https://escholarship.org/uc/item/967049vn LGBTQ+ youth globally face increased suicide risk, yet evidence from Latin America, particularly Peru, is limited. Understanding factors influencing suicidality among LGBTQ+ youth in Peru is essential for developing culturally relevant interventions. This study analyzed data from The Trevor Project's 2024 Peru National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People (N&nbsp;=&nbsp;4,643; age 14-24, mean age&nbsp;=&nbsp;17.34). Logistic regression models examined associations between suicide-related outcomes (lifetime and past-year suicidal ideation, past-year suicide attempts), and positive screens for depressive and anxiety symptoms, mental healthcare desire, sexual orientation "outness" and perceived community acceptance. Approximately 73.5% reported lifetime suicidal ideation, 55.0% past-year ideation and 37.1% past-year attempts. Positive screens for depressive and anxiety symptoms were associated with higher odds of suicidality (aOR range: 1.80-2.88). Compared to youth... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/967049vn Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Jauregui, Juan C Reyes-Diaz, Michael León-Morris, Fran Nath, Ronita Taylor, Ashley B Konda, Kelika A https://escholarship.org/uc/item/34t508br This paper provides new evidence that team-level momentum exists in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The existence of momentum is one of the most prominent and longstanding questions in sports analytics. But for all its importance to announcers, coaches, and players, existing literature has found little evidence of momentum in professional basketball. This paper exploits a natural experiment in the flow of basketball games: television (TV) timeouts. Since TV timeouts occur at points exogenous to momentum, they enable the measurement of the effect of pauses in the game separate from the effect of strategy changes. We find TV timeouts cause an 11.2% decline in the number of points that the team with momentum subsequently scores. This effect is robust to the size of a run, substitutions, and game context. This result has far reaching implications in basketball strategy and the understanding of momentum in sports more broadly. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/34t508br Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Weimer, Louis Steinert-Threlkeld, Zachary C https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5122-9660 Coltin, Kevin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2sg9b1sj This report evaluates a proposal from Our Future Los Angeles that would allow developers to build five to 10 units on parcels with single-family houses in higher-opportunity neighborhoods throughout California. It also mandates that developers include affordable units or pay an in-lieu fee. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2sg9b1sj Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Phillips, Shane Manji, Mahdi Hadar, Oren https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1qf6g2r8 The difficulty of collecting social conflict data has caused its study to focus on recent events predominantly in the West. This paper shows how to use artificial intelligence to generate social conflict data regardless of language, location, or date. Digitizing tertiary books, lightly cleaning their text representation, and submitting that text to a large language model (LLM) produces accurate date, location, and event descriptions. These capabilities and results are demonstrated with books on Latin America after 1492, Imperial Russia, and Tokugawa Japan. Using LLMs requires a larger fixed cost than working a team of research assistants, but it produces results more quickly for most sources. It is less accurate for the Tokugawa Japan source; whether it or human translation is cheaper depends on the cost of correcting the LLM’s work. These results represent the floor of accuracy for artificial intelligence, suggesting researchers should soon use it for creating social conflict... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1qf6g2r8 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Steinert-Threlkeld, Zachary C https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5122-9660 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7k66t2dq How are climate change and debt – whether sovereign, municipal or household – related under racial capitalism? When faced with a warming planet caused by centuries of racial capitalism, how are people organizing the necessary ideas and social movements to fight back? What are the alternatives and solutions to racial capitalism-driven climate change proposed both by movements on the ground, and by those in (or near) halls of power around the world, from multilateral institutions to national governments to research universities? This paper offers an accessible introduction to many of the large-scale transformative ideas out there, from green central banking to degrowth, from climate reparations to de-dollarization. In addition, based on interviews with Argentina’s Debt for Climate, Britain’s Don’t Pay UK, Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement, Chile’s Ni Una Menos, and the South Africa Green Revolutionary Council, this paper shares tactics and strategies used by social movements around... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7k66t2dq Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ali, Maizah Appel, Hannah Hazard, Erik Ross, Andrew Schneider, Matt https://escholarship.org/uc/item/71d9p7xb <p>As California strives to achieve its goal of carbon neutrality by 2045, the state has increasingly focused on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from buildings, which account for more than one-third of total GHG emissions in the state. Several policies and programs aim to transition buildings from gas-based systems to zero-emission alternatives—part of a process called building decarbonization. This document addresses key questions about residential building decarbonization in California, with a focus on Senate Bill (SB) 1221, an initiative that establishes a neighborhood decarbonization pilot program to explore how entire residential blocks or neighborhoods can transition away from gas service in a coordinated way. As the state agency responsible for SB 1221 implementation, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is working with stakeholders to develop the program design and guidelines for deployment in 2026. This FAQ provides our interpretation of statutory... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/71d9p7xb Wed, 8 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Yang, Sooji Dunlap, Lauren Pierce, Gregory https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5qs0c1rj The Costs of Traveling With Children: Transportation Challenges for Low-Income Families https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5qs0c1rj Tue, 7 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Butler, Tamika L. Wander, Madeline Brozen, Madeline Blumenberg, Evelyn https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9tx7v7jq This guide summarizes community perspectives on electric vehicle (EV) charging in South Los Angeles gathered through focus groups conducted in three workshops between 2024 and 2025 as part of the Climate Action–Community-driven eLectric vEhicle chArging solutioN (CA–CLEAN) project. The UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation partnered with Redeemer Community Partnership, a community-based organization in South Los Angeles, to provide a space for residents to share experiences and perspectives on EV ownership, barriers to charging access, and priorities for future charging infrastructure. Participants highlighted limited availability of reliable chargers, affordability concerns, and the need for clearer information about EV incentives and programs. This guide presents these insights alongside practical pathways and resources to support more equitable expansion of EV charging in South Los Angeles. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9tx7v7jq Mon, 6 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Connolly, Rachel Pierce, Gregory Castillo, Connor Salvador-Galbraith, Wendy Parks, Richard https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5rd88827 The Center for Heat Resilient Communities’ collective work has been compiled into a toolkit to help communities assess, plan for, and implement strategies to address extreme heat. It integrates climate modeling, vulnerability assessment, governance, equity, and other considerations to guide data-informed, locally tailored heat action. This toolkit is intended for practitioners and presents a comprehensive framework for heat planning, along with a workbook of interactive activities to help communities identify priority strategies. Practitioners who use the workbook will ultimately create a strategy document to guide further action. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5rd88827 Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 V. Kelly, Turner Keith, Ladd Sara, Meerow Elizabeth, Cook M Jason, Douglas A C.J., Gabbe Ronnen, Levinson Theo, Lim Ariana, Middel Glenn, Sheriff Florian, Schneider Chris, Uejio Jennifer, Vanos Olga, Wilhelmi https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7wc126pq The city of San Francisco is undertaking a large-scale controlled parking pricing experiment. San Francisco has adopted a performance goal of 60–80% occupancy for its metered parking. The goal represents an heuristic performance measure intended to reduce double parking and cruising for parking, and improve the driver experience; it follows a wave of academic and policy literature that calls for adjusting on-street parking prices to achieve similar occupancy targets. In this paper, we evaluate the relationship between occupancy rules and metrics of direct policy interest, such as the probability of finding a parking space and the amount of cruising. We show how cruising and arrival rates can be simulated or estimated from hourly occupancy data. Further, we evaluate the impacts of the first two years of the San Francisco program, and conclude that rate changes have helped achieve the City’s occupancy goal and reduced cruising by 50%. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7wc126pq Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Millard-Ball, Adam https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2353-8730 Weinberger, Rachel R Hampshire, Robert C https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63c5x064 The urban street network is one of the most permanent features of cities. Once laid down, the pattern of streets determines urban form and the level of sprawl for decades to come. We present a high-resolution time series of urban sprawl, as measured through street network connectivity, in the United States from 1920 to 2012. Sprawl started well before private car ownership was dominant and grew steadily until the mid-1990s. Over the last two decades, however, new streets have become significantly more connected and grid-like; the peak in street-network sprawl in the United States occurred in ∼ 1994. By one measure of connectivity, the mean nodal degree of intersections, sprawl fell by ∼ 9% between 1994 and 2012. We analyze spatial variation in these changes and demonstrate the persistence of sprawl. Places that were built with a low-connectivity street network tend to stay that way, even as the network expands. We also find suggestive evidence that local government policies impact... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63c5x064 Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Barrington-Leigh, Christopher Millard-Ball, Adam https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2353-8730 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5bz9674s License-plate-based driving restrictions are among the highest profile policies for local governments to address congestion and air pollution. Cities as varied as Sao Paulo, Paris, Tianjin, and New Delhi have enacted temporary or permanent restrictions to improve local air quality. Using household travel survey data and a research design based on the abrupt shift in how the policy applies to 10-year-old vs. 9-year-old vehicles, we evaluate the impact of Hoy No Circula, one of the earliest and most studied driving restrictions, in Mexico City. In line with previous studies, we find that Hoy No Circula has done little to reduce overall vehicle travel, but we reject the prevailing theory that its lack of success is due to perverse incentives for households to buy second cars. Instead, we highlight the range of other, less costly ways that people adjust behavior to avoid the restrictions. Although no single behavior dominates, most households — particularly those that own older, higher-polluting... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5bz9674s Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Guerra, Erick Millard-Ball, Adam https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2353-8730 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/49t2938t OpenStreetMap, a crowdsourced geographic database, provides the only global-level, openly licensed source of geospatial road data, and the only national-level source in many countries. However, researchers, policy makers, and citizens who want to make use of OpenStreetMap (OSM) have little information about whether it can be relied upon in a particular geographic setting. In this paper, we use two complementary, independent methods to assess the completeness of OSM road data in each country in the world. First, we undertake a visual assessment of OSM data against satellite imagery, which provides the input for estimates based on a multilevel regression and poststratification model. Second, we fit sigmoid curves to the cumulative length of contributions, and use them to estimate the saturation level for each country. Both techniques may have more general use for assessing the development and saturation of crowd-sourced data. Our results show that in many places, researchers and... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/49t2938t Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Barrington-Leigh, Christopher Millard-Ball, Adam https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2353-8730 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0t11206j The Trip Generation Manual is the standard reference for assessing the impacts of new development on traffic congestion and the environment in the United States. However, a comparison to household surveys suggests that the Trip Generation Manual overestimates trips by 55 percent—likely because its data represent a biased sample of development in the U.S. Moreover, the data in the Trip Generation Manual are ill suited to many analyses of traffic impacts, development impact fees, and greenhouse gas emissions because they do not account for substitution effects. Most trips “generated” by new developments are not new, but instead involve households reshuffling trips from other destinations. These twin problems—theoretical and practical—are likely to lead to the construction of excessive roadway infrastructure and to the overestimation of the congestion, fiscal, and environmental impacts of new development. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0t11206j Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Millard-Ball, Adam https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2353-8730 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/05r70485 We quantify the importance of early action to tackle urban sprawl. We focus on the long-term nature of infrastructure decisions, specifically local roadways, which can lock in greenhouse gas emissions for decades to come. The location and interconnectedness of local roadways form a near-permanent backbone for the future layout of land parcels, buildings, and transportation options. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/05r70485 Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Barrington-Leigh, Chris Millard-Ball, Adam https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2353-8730 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0114m58w Cities have emerged as important actors in climate change policy, implementing measures to reduce emissions from transportation, buildings, and waste. More recently, states such as California have implemented cap-and-trade programs to control greenhouse gases. However, a state-level cap handcuffs cities: by fixing emissions at the level of the cap, it precludes local governments from further reducing aggregate emissions. In this paper, we examine whether cities respond to the changed incentives presented by state-level programs. We find no evidence for crowding out: cities plan their emission reductions in similar ways regardless of state-level cap-and-trade programs. Our results suggest that cities likely have a range of motivations for their climate policy efforts- not simply a altruistic desire to improve the global environment. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0114m58w Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 St-Louis, Evelyne Millard-Ball, Adam https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2353-8730 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0xm0v0j8 We examine how new digital technologies are transforming labour processes in frontline jobs in United States (US) store‐based retail, examining the US as an extreme case of labour market liberalisation. Research on technological change presents three scenarios: job displacement, job enrichment and ‘digital Taylorism’ involving heightened surveillance and control. However, this research typically overlooks the role of customers and the frequency of technology failure. Drawing on interviews with frontline employees and managers supplemented by other sources, we find little evidence for job enhancement and limited evidence of job displacement. Retailers have used digital technologies to heighten Taylorisation, speedup and surveillance in some frontline jobs. However, interviews reveal multiple sources of chaos in the jobs, including unpredictable customer interactions, staffing patterns that make it hard for retail workers to rely on co‐workers, and flaws in digital technologies... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0xm0v0j8 Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tilly, Chris https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0332-1849 Carré, Françoise https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7g41v63n “Major transit stop”: how these three words are defined determines what can be built where, throughout much of California. In order to address housing supply constraints, the state legislature has enacted a number of laws that streamline approval and remove zoning constraints in areas close to high-quality transit. But what, exactly, is a “major transit stop”? Planners, developers, and elected officials construe the sparse definition in state law in many ways — though genuine interpretive disagreement, due to modeling and data constraints, and/or in order to serve political goals of encouraging or stymying development. Differences in interpreting the definition of “major transit stop” collectively make a big difference in what areas are covered by state zoning incentives. A maximal approach to defining “major transit stop” grows the eligible area by over three times more than a minimal approach. The area within half a mile of a major transit stop has generally increased over time.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7g41v63n Fri, 6 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Wasserman, Jacob L. Barrall, Aaron Millard-Ball, Adam Lee, Amy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/82g7152f Personal safety concerns continue to be one of the most critical issues among transit riders and women and gender minorities in particular. These safety concerns stem from the experience of sexual harassment that people who identify as women face frequently. While harassment can be a common occurrence, the vast majority of these experiences go unreported to transit agencies, leaving agencies without information about the magnitude of this problem on their system. This report details work with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) in their efforts to understand and address this problem. The SFMTA, working with two UCLA graduate students, designed a survey that drew from previous survey efforts and was tailored to address their interests and needs. This report documents the process of developing and deploying the questionnaire, in an effort to help other agencies take the first steps to better understanding rider safety and harassment. Through breaking down SFMTA’s... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/82g7152f Thu, 5 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Wasserman, Jacob L. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2212-5798 Brozen, Madeline https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4231-8298 Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia, PhD https://escholarship.org/uc/item/40r2j6zh Personal safety is a critical issue for transit riders, particularly for women and gender minorities. Safety concerns can stem from experiences of sexual harassment that those who identify as women frequently face. However, most incidents go unreported, leaving transit agencies without information about the magnitude of the problem. UCLA graduate student researchers worked with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) staff to conduct and analyze a survey on their transit system (Muni) of riders’ experiences with harassment, feelings of safety, and potential policy responses. This effort collected 1,613 responses over a two-week period in February and March 2023 through a partnership with the Transit App, a downloadable service for real-time schedule and location tracking of buses and trains. Similar to previous studies, harassment was common: two-thirds of respondents experienced harassment themselves, and around the same share witnessed it. Safety perceptions... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/40r2j6zh Thu, 5 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Wasserman, Jacob L. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2212-5798 Brozen, Madeline https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4231-8298 Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia, PhD https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3zs0x4r8 This report synthesizes three primary data sources—credit data, unemployment claims data, and small business loan and grant data—to explore the financial conditions of those who drive for a living before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in California. Automobile debt was high among groups likely to contain professional drivers. The occupational categories in which many drivers fall had high absolute and relative levels of automobile debt compared to other workers. After the onset of the pandemic, unemployment rose dramatically in the transportation industry and in transportation occupations, peaking at rates higher than the national average. However, state unemployment claims data, among transportation employee claimants only, show less of a spike. Contractor drivers lived in areas with more Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims, a special program for self-employed workers like gig drivers. Finally, contractor drivers received unprecedented but uneven federal small business... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3zs0x4r8 Thu, 5 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Wasserman, Jacob L https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2212-5798 Siddiq, Fariba https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0361-6594 Speroni, Samuel https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4364-6162 Blumenberg, Evelyn https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6767-2686 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/060723b4 Differences in how men and women travel have long been a focus in transportation research. Many studies have explored how socially-defined gender roles influence travel decisions and behaviors, consistently highlighting disparities between men’s and women’s travel patterns. For example, compared to men, women tend to make more caregiving and household-related trips, have shorter commutes, and are more likely to combine multiple destinations or purposes into a single tour. This body of research often concentrates on standard measures of travel—such as the number of trips taken, how far and for how long people travel, and travelers’ experiences— while also considering the influence of neighborhood design. However, travel patterns also are shaped by broader social structures and inequalities, which are not captured by these traditional measures https://escholarship.org/uc/item/060723b4 Thu, 5 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Siddiq, Fariba https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0361-6594 Yao, Zhiyuan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7601-8704 Blumenberg, Evelyn https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6767-2686 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8w51x2zg <p>Switching from gas to electricity for home energy use reduces indoor air pollution, improves health, and can reduce carbon emissions to meet climate goals, depending on the electricity source. But going electric is often an expensive, complex, and confusing endeavor, and many households have difficulty navigating the process and paying for appliances and retrofits. These community engagement materials aim to help residents learn about the process, the purpose, and the trade-offs of home electrification, as well as resources available to help. The Cost and Benefits FAQ responds to common questions and concerns about transitioning from gas to electricity and concludes with resources for residents who wish to learn more.</p><p>These materials were developed as part of Power Up South L.A., a partnership between the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation and Redeemer Community Partnership. This initiative aims to lay the groundwork for residential building electrification in and around... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8w51x2zg Tue, 3 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Yang, Sooji Dunlap, Lauren Pierce, Gregory Parks, Richard https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4040m8qx <p>Switching from gas to electricity for home energy use reduces indoor air pollution, improves health, and can reduce carbon emissions to meet climate goals, depending on the electricity source. But going electric is often an expensive, complex, and confusing endeavor, and many households have difficulty navigating the process and paying for appliances and retrofits. These community engagement materials aim to help residents learn about the process, the purpose, and the trade-offs of home electrification, as well as resources available to help. The Overview Fact Sheet outlines the purpose, benefits, and process of decarbonizing homes, from electrifying to shutting down fossil fuel infrastructure. It provides basic information on the costs and benefits for households.</p><p>These materials were developed as part of Power Up South L.A., a partnership between the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation and Redeemer Community Partnership. This initiative aims to lay the groundwork for... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4040m8qx Tue, 3 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Yang, Sooji Dunlap, Lauren Pierce, Gregory Parks, Richard https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7mc0k88g Youth suicide is a pressing public health concern requiring coordinated, cross-sector responses. This research presents findings from a pilot initiative involving ten California counties that used a multi-site participatory system mapping design to assess and strengthen youth crisis reporting and response systems. Funded through the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative and supported by the California Department of Public Health, the pilot used visual tools to identify gaps, clarify roles, and promote shared understanding across sectors. System maps focused on six key components of crisis systems, supporting communities in developing targeted action plans and promoting system accountability. Results demonstrated that the mapping process catalyzed improvements in follow-up care, school and hospital coordination, and postvention practices. Challenges included navigating structural differences among partners and sustaining engagement. Findings suggest that system mapping... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7mc0k88g Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Long, Ashley Blagg, Robert D https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63217786 Issue Brief: How Often Have Hydrants Run Dry? Evidence From Recent Major Wildfires https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63217786 Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Pierce, Gregory Gorman, Jennifer de Guzman, Edith Kearns, Faith https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4fx1c1pj Fire Resilient LA: Solano Canyon https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4fx1c1pj Fri, 6 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Kim, Minjee https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7087-5847 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2zq6s439 <p>The contributions assembled in Volume 28: Margins and Junctures demonstrate just how scholarship rooted in the margins can illuminate the political, material, and affective pressures which shape our present junctures. Across the volume, authors show how the margins function simultaneously as sites of acute vulnerability and of world-building. They reveal how violence (e.g., infrastructural, bureaucratic, spectacular) is rendered ordinary via the doctrines of planning, instruments of finance, and the routines of institutions. At the same time, they foreground how alternative social relations are practiced and defended in spaces often dismissed as marginal: in libraries, housing struggles, accessibility audits, creative practice, and collective organizing. Taken together, these works insist that critical urban scholarship cannot remain detached from the conditions it analyzes. It must remain accountable to those who live at the sharpest edges of contemporary urban restructuring,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2zq6s439 Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Kirk, Richard Behm, Derrick https://escholarship.org/uc/item/962305dc Race, Ethnicity and Mortgage Lending inthe FHLBSF Cooperative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/962305dc Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Loya, José Koh, Stella https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4135s7h1 Bank Investment Patterns in the FHLBSF Cooperative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4135s7h1 Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Loya, José Chen, Rosalinda https://escholarship.org/uc/item/497445w7 We examine pre-COVID declines in transit ridership, using Southern California as a case study. We first illustrate Southern California’s unique position in the transit landscape: it is a large transit market that demographically resembles a small one. We then draw on administrative data, travel diaries, rider surveys, accessibility indices, and Census microdata for Southern California, and demonstrate a strong association between rising private vehicle access, particularly among the populations most likely to ride transit, and falling transit use. Because we cannot control quantitatively for the endogeneity between vehicle acquisition and transit use, our results are not causal. Nevertheless, the results strongly suggest that increasing private vehicle access helped depress transit ridership. Given Southern California’s similarity to most US transit markets, we conclude that vehicle access may have played a role in transit losses across the US since 2000. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/497445w7 Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Manville, Michael https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4218-6427 Taylor, Brian D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1037-2751 Blumenberg, Evelyn Schouten, Andrew https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6qg6n8rp Climate change is altering the timing and intensity of pollen seasons, increasing human exposure to allergenic pollen. Climate-driven changes in pollen seasons present a unique opportunity to craft messaging that communicates how climate change is affecting biological systems. However, it is unclear how pollen seasons are experienced and understood by the public, including how well we detect pollen seasons and what factors we view as responsible for changes in pollen seasons. Here, we use social media data (Twitter) in the United States from 2012 to 2022 to assess public perceptions of pollen seasons across the country. We find that pollen seasons detected by social media users are consistent with natural pollen seasons. Attribution of changing pollen seasons, however, varies based on political ideology: liberal users are more likely to attribute changing pollen seasons to climate change when compared with conservative users. Mass media and scientific experts shape communication... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6qg6n8rp Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Song, Yiluan Millard-Ball, Adam https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2353-8730 Fox, Nathan Van Berkel, Derek Agrawal, Arun Zhu, Kai