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Why does the housing market seem so broken? And what can we do about it? UCLA Housing Voice tackles these questions in conversation with leading housing researchers, with each episode center...

We're doing a three-part book club series on Yoni Appelbaum's 'Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine...

We close out the Incentives Series with Lars Doucet offering a primer on land value taxes, the ultimate incentive-aligned housing policy. Th...

We're joined by our co-authors to discuss a few Lewis Center studies on Measure ULA, a transfer tax in the city of Los Angeles, that ma...

Enterprise Community Partners has been running a renter wealth-building program since 2022. How’s it going? And what comes next? Show notes:...

Joined by a 20-year veteran of Fannie Mae, Shane shares findings from his work on a proposed new model for building renter wealth: shared pr...

Fixed-rate mortgages are expensive, but adjustable-rate mortgages are volatile — but do they have to be? Kevin Erdmann pitches an alternativ...

This is the shortened "highlights" version of episode 106. You can listen to the full interview here . Was the housing market really oversup...

Was the housing market really oversupplied in the mid-2000s? Kevin Erdmann says no, and he explains how this misunderstanding is at the root...

Shane makes a guest appearance on USC's Lusk Perspectives to talk state housing law, barriers to missing middle housing and condos, man...

Why do many U.S. states build so few condos? Muhammad Alameldin explains the role of construction defect liability laws — and how to fix the...

In which types of homes are people safest from fires? Alex Horowitz shares research showing that multifamily is safer than single-family hou...

We’ve been grappling with trade-offs between stricter building codes and declining affordability for over 100 years. Benjamin Schneider help...

Your city just legalized “missing middle” housing in its zoning code… now what? With Memphis, Tennessee, as a case study, John Zeanah and An...

The hosts gather to celebrate the 100th episode of UCLA Housing Voice. We also answer listener questions and announce the first book for our...

North American buildings are built different — literally. Councilmember Jesse Zwick explains how the organization behind our unusual standar...

Elevators in the U.S. and Canada cost 3–5 times as much as elevators in other high-income countries. Stephen Smith explains why and how our...

This is the first episode of our series on misaligned incentives in housing policy. Michael Eliason shares insights from his book, Building...

Housing vouchers provide critical assistance to low-income renters, but roughly 40% of vouchers go unused, in part due to difficulty finding...

Our next interview will be out soon. In the meantime, we're asking for listener questions for a special recording celebrating our 100th...

Seattle’s low-rise multifamily zones have produced more than 20,000 townhomes over the past 30 years. Tobias Peter discusses the impacts on...

Episode Summary: Every year, more than two million low-income households receive rental assistance through the Housing Choice Voucher progra...

For people with disabilities, ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft can be a lifeline or a pain — or both. Abigail Cochran shares what sh...

Shared micromobility programs offering scooters and bikes have exploded across the US in recent years, but the benefits haven't been sh...

Do people drive less because they live in buildings that don’t provide parking, or do they live in buildings that don’t provide parking beca...

Many studies have looked at the effects of new transit infrastructure on housing prices, gentrification, and other neighborhood changes. But...

When a city proposes zoning changes, how do you know whether they’ll be effective? Aaron Barrall shares how we approached the problem in Los...

Why does the housing market seem so broken? And what can we do about it? UCLA Housing Voice tackles these questions in conversation with lea...

When a city proposes zoning changes, how do you know whether they’ll be effective? Aaron Barrall shares how we approached the problem in Los...

Helping people move to higher-opportunity neighborhoods requires knowing which neighborhoods are actually better. Are we any good at it? Dio...

Housing Choice vouchers help lower-income tenants pay rent, yet only about 60% of issued vouchers result in a successful lease-up. Sarah Str...

How have conditions changed since 1970 in neighborhoods where Black residents are the largest racial or ethnic group? Mike Lens wrote a whol...

On January 7th, the Palisades and Eaton fires erupted in Los Angeles, killing dozens of people, displacing tens of thousands, and destroying...

Rent control is one of the most hotly debated housing policies, and also one of the most researched. Konstantin Kholodilin reviewed over 200...

In most of the U.S., cities are for singles, roommates, and childless couples, and the suburbs are for raising kids. That’s not true of much...

Urban upzonings have been rare across the world, and many of the most significant occurred only in the past 5–10 years or less. One exceptio...

What happens to housing quality and affordability when any proposed development can be vetoed? Can the public sector reliably deliver most o...

In a previous episode we discussed Auckland’s unprecedented upzoning and its effect on housing production and land prices. This time we’re j...

Inclusionary zoning policies are commonly used to produce affordable housing and “social mix” in the U.S., but what about in Europe, where p...

Inclusionary zoning policies use the market to produce affordable housing, but nothing comes for free. So who pays? Shane takes the guest se...

Cities have lived with exclusionary zoning for decades, if not generations. Is inclusionary zoning the answer? Inclusionary zoning, or IZ, r...

We’ve long known that building more homes helps keep prices in check at the regional or metro area level, but what about the house down the...

Building taller lets us fit more homes on valuable urban land, but more homes doesn’t necessarily mean more affordable. Anthony Orlando join...

Changing zoning rules to allow taller and denser buildings may cause land values to go up, and public officials may try to “capture” this ad...

When the demand for housing rises, which kinds of neighborhoods respond by building more homes, and which just get more expensive? Nathaniel...

We often talk about residential segregation by race or income, but we rarely explore it in the literal sense — as in segregation of residenc...

Black households make up a disproportionate share of rent assistance recipients. Andrew Fenelon discusses how a “two-tiered approach to hous...

Before the 2000s, French real estate developers were prohibited from building social housing. Today, they build more than half of it. Julie...

In this episode, Shane combines insights from a recent trip to Tokyo with official data on housing production, affordability, land use polic...

Each year, more money is invested in China's housing market than any other. Lan Deng shares how the market was shaped and the heavy rol...

For this episode, we take a trip to Tokyo to learn from the successes and shortcomings of Japanese housing policy. Known for high rates of p...