UCLA Housing Voice
- Episodes
- 138
- Released
- every two weeks
- Latest episode
- Nov 11, 2026
About the podcast
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 centered on a study and its implications for creating more affordable and accessible communities.
Contributors
- Michael LensHost
- Michael ManvilleHost
- Paavo MonkkonenHost
- Shane PhillipsHost
Episodes 138
Ep. 127: Affordability and Household Formation with Nathanael Lauster and Jens von Bergmann
Traditional measures of affordability can understate the harms caused by housing shortages. This alternative gives us a fuller picture, and it paints a dire picture of housing conditions for young adults. Read …
Show notes
Traditional measures of affordability can understate the harms caused by housing shortages. This alternative gives us a fuller picture, and it paints a dire picture of housing conditions for young adults.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Lauster, N., & von Bergmann, J. (2025). The new rules: housing shortage as an explanation for family and household change across large metro areas in Canada, 1981–2021. The History of the Family, 30(4), 619-648.
- Ermisch, J. F., & Overton, E. (1985). Minimal household units: A new approach to the analysis of household formation. Population studies, 39(1), 33-54.
- Episode 102 of UCLA Housing Voice: Minimum Standards vs. Affordability with Benjamin Schneider.
Ep. 126: The Great Property Tax Freak Out with David Schleicher
In the 1970s and 80s, a tax revolt broke the property tax system in liberal states like California. David Schleicher shares how, in the 2020s, conservative states are joining the party. Read about the Lewis …
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In the 1970s and 80s, a tax revolt broke the property tax system in liberal states like California. David Schleicher shares how, in the 2020s, conservative states are joining the party.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Schleicher, D. (2026). The Great American Property Tax Freak Out. Available at SSRN 7377158.
- Episode 11 of UCLA Housing Voice: Land Value Tax Would Fix This with Lars Doucet.
- Youngman, J. (2016). A Good Tax: Legal and Policy Issues for the Property Tax in the United States. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
- Shane’s Substack post, “What kinds of housing do kids live in?”
- Fischel, W. A. (1989). Did" Serrano" Cause Proposition 13? National Tax Journal, 42(4), 465-473.
- Martin, I. (2006). Does school finance litigation cause taxpayer revolt? Serrano and Proposition 13. Law & Society Review, 40(3), 525-558.
- Malcolm Gladwell’s episode on Prop 13 on his podcast, Revisionist History.
- Coven, J., Golder, S., Gupta, A., & Ndiaye, A. (2026). Property Taxes and Housing Allocation Under Financial Constraints (No. w35587). National Bureau of Economic Research.
- Schleicher, D. (2024). Your House is Worth More Than They Think: The Strange Case of Property Tax Assessment Regressivity. Harv. J. on Legis., 62, 85.
Ep. 125: Single-Family Rentals and School Access with Tom Mayock
Single-family rentals have a bad rap, but they also have underappreciated benefits. Tom Mayock shares how places with a bigger single-family rental stock provide better access to high quality schools for …
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Single-family rentals have a bad rap, but they also have underappreciated benefits. Tom Mayock shares how places with a bigger single-family rental stock provide better access to high quality schools for disadvantaged kids.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Mayock, T., & Vosters, K. (2024). Single‐family rentals as a pathway for access to high‐performing public schools. Real Estate Economics.
- Mayock, T., & Vosters, K. (2026). Educational achievement gains afforded by moving to single-family rentals. Journal of Housing Economics, 71, 102123.
- Erdmann, K. (2024). Getting Corporate Money Out of Single-Family Homes Won’t Help the Housing Affordability Crisis. Mercatus Center, Georgetown University.
- Owens, A., Reardon, S. F., & Jencks, C. (2016). Income segregation between schools and school districts. American Educational Research Journal, 53(4), 1159-1197.
Ep. 124: Reducing Homelessness with Rapid Rehousing with Brian Blackwell
Rapid rehousing provides short-term rental assistance to help people experiencing homelessness find market-rate housing. Brian Blackwell shares new research finding that it may be more effective than we …
Show notes
Rapid rehousing provides short-term rental assistance to help people experiencing homelessness find market-rate housing. Brian Blackwell shares new research finding that it may be more effective than we thought.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Blackwell, B., & Gross, M. (2026). Does Rapid Re-Housing reduce homelessness? Journal of Urban Economics, 154, 103889.
- Episode 64 of UCLA Housing Voice: Ending Family Homelessness with Beth Shinn.
- Episode 66 of UCLA Housing Voice: Chronic Homelessness and Housing First with Tim Aubry.
- Episode 87 of UCLA Housing Voice: Rental Voucher Lease-Up Rates with Sarah Strochak.
- Evans, W. N., Sullivan, J. X., & Wallskog, M. (2016). The impact of homelessness prevention programs on homelessness. Science, 353(6300), 694-699.
- Cohen, E. (2024). Housing the homeless: the effect of placing single adults experiencing homelessness in housing programs on future homelessness and socioeconomic outcomes. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 16(2), 130-175.
Ep. 123: Implementing Preapproved Plan Programs with Alkarim Devani and Eric Kronberg
Last time we talked about what preapproved building plans are and how the existing U.S. programs are going. This time we talked with Alkarim Devani and Eric Kronberg, two practitioners who are designing and …
Show notes
Last time we talked about what preapproved building plans are and how the existing U.S. programs are going. This time we talked with Alkarim Devani and Eric Kronberg, two practitioners who are designing and implementing preapproved plan programs across North America.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Alkarim’s company, mddl.
- Eric’s companies, Kronberg Urbanists + Architects and Inc Codes.
- The Incremental Development Alliance.
Ep. 122: An Overview of Preapproved Building Plan Programs with Seva Rodnyansky
Preapproved plan programs promise to speed up permitting and lower the cost of building new homes. How do they work—and are they working? Seva Rodnyansky shares findings from a review of more than 40 existing …
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Preapproved plan programs promise to speed up permitting and lower the cost of building new homes. How do they work—and are they working? Seva Rodnyansky shares findings from a review of more than 40 existing programs.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Rodnyansky, S., & Su, D. (2026). Preapproved Building Plans Help Cities Improve Housing Affordability. Pew Charitable Trusts.
- Animated intro for The Irony of Fate, which depicts architects having their building designs rendered increasingly bland and uniform by Soviet bureaucrats.
- The pattern book for New South Wales, Australia, with plans for buildings up to 216 units!
- The province-specific housing catalog produced by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
Ep. 121: Exclusionary Zoning and the Great Migration with Alexander Sahn
Why is exclusionary zoning, which restricts land to expensive single-family houses, so commonplace in the US compared to other countries? Alexander Sahn shares strong evidence that local responses to a wave of …
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Why is exclusionary zoning, which restricts land to expensive single-family houses, so commonplace in the US compared to other countries? Alexander Sahn shares strong evidence that local responses to a wave of migration by Southern Blacks in the middle of the 20th century played a big role.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Sahn, A. (2025). Racial diversity and exclusionary zoning: Evidence from the Great Migration. The Journal of Politics, 87(4), 1302-1318.
- Boustan, L. P. (2007). Black migration, white flight: the effect of black migration on northern cities and labor markets. The Journal of Economic History, 67(2), 484-488.
- Derenoncourt, E. (2022). Can you move to opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration. American Economic Review, 112(2), 369-408.
- Grant, K. N. (2014). Relocation and Realignment: How the Great Migration Changed the Face of the Democratic Party. Syracuse University.
Cui, T. (2024). Did race fence off the American city? The great migration and the evolution of exclusionary zoning [working paper]. - Gallagher, R., Shertzer, A., & Twinam, T. (2026). Zoning and the American Suburb (No. 26-37). Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
- Lens, M. C. (2024). Where the hood at?: Fifty years of change in black neighborhoods. Russell Sage Foundation.
- Episode 23 of UCLA Housing Voice, on political representation and housing supply with Michael Hankinson.
YIMBY Country with Michael Andersen
This episode features clips from a few episodes of Michael Andersen's one-shot podcast series, YIMBY Country: "A podcast mini-series about what happens after you legalize housing. In this case, in New …
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This episode features clips from a few episodes of Michael Andersen's one-shot podcast series, YIMBY Country: "A podcast mini-series about what happens after you legalize housing. In this case, in New Zealand."
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Listen to YIMBY Country on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
- Episode 45 of UCLA Housing Voice: What Happened When Auckland Upzoned Everywhere with Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy.
- Episode 81 of UCLA Housing Voice: How New Zealand Passed Its Ambitious Zoning Reforms with Eleanor West.
- Part 1 of the New Zealand Initiative's three-part series.
Ep 120: How Exclusionary Zoning Hurts Poor Neighborhoods with Matthew Mleczko
When cities adopt exclusionary zoning, their housing stock becomes scarcer and less affordable over time. Matt Mleczko shares research suggesting that the impacts extend beyond exclusionary jurisdictions’ …
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When cities adopt exclusionary zoning, their housing stock becomes scarcer and less affordable over time. Matt Mleczko shares research suggesting that the impacts extend beyond exclusionary jurisdictions’ borders, hurting poor communities that have no say over their neighbors’ land use policies.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Mleczko, M. (2026). The Cumulative Exposure to Exclusionary Zoning in Impoverished Neighborhoods. Demography, 63(1), 213-239.
- The National Zoning and Land Use Database.
- Jones, P. (2010). The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee. Harvard University Press.
- Wikipedia page on ‘Sewer Socialism,’ a movement that started in Milwaukee.
- Perry, E. M. (2017). Live and Let Live: Diversity, Conflict, and Community in an Integrated Neighborhood. University of North Carolina Press.
- Fischel, W. A. (2015). Zoning Rules! The Economics of Land Use Regulation. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
- Goetz, E. G., Damiano, A., & Williams, R. A. (2019). Racially concentrated areas of affluence. Cityscape, 21(1), 99-124.
- Taylor, K. (2019). Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. University of North Carolina Press.
- Connolly, B., & Kazis, N. (2026). Rezoning the Rust Belt [working paper]. SSRN.
Ep 119: Responding to Supply Skepticism with Vicki Been
Supply skeptics don’t believe that building more homes improves affordability. Vicki Been tells us what the latest research says about their main arguments.Read about the Lewis Center's work at …
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Supply skeptics don’t believe that building more homes improves affordability. Vicki Been tells us what the latest research says about their main arguments.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Been, V., Ellen, I. G., & O’Regan, K. (2025). Supply skepticism revisited. Housing Policy Debate, 35(1), 96-113.
- Been, V., Ellen, I. G., & O’Regan, K. (2019). Supply skepticism: Housing supply and affordability. Housing Policy Debate, 29(1), 25-40.
- Fang, L., Kim, E., & Tyndall, J. (2025). The downmarket impact of new multifamily housing: Evidence from a Honolulu condo tower. Real Estate Economics.
- Grabar, H. (2026). High-End Construction Really Does Help Everyone. The Atlantic.
- Shane’s Substack post on the share of households living in recently-built housing who come from the same/different metro area or from within 50 or 100 miles of their new home.
- Pew Charitable Trusts Youtube video: “Building More Housing Creates 'Moving Chains' of Affordability”.
- Rollet, V. (2025). Can We Rebuild a City? The Dynamics of Urban Redevelopment [working paper].
- Giacoletti, M., Korevaar, M., & Qian, F. (2025). How Housing Supply Expansions Reshape Cities [working paper].
- Furman Center Land Use Reform Tracker.
- Soltas, E., & Gruber, J. (2026). How Costly Is Permitting in Housing Development? [working paper].
Ep 118: Road Scholars on Microtransit with Michael Hyland
Transit agencies are using microtransit services to increase the reach and access of their overall service. We talk with Mike Hyland about how agencies can think about pricing and fleet sizing to balance cost …
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Transit agencies are using microtransit services to increase the reach and access of their overall service. We talk with Mike Hyland about how agencies can think about pricing and fleet sizing to balance cost and service. Also, how should agencies measure the overall success of their microtransit services?
Show notes:
- Hyland, M., Saha, R., & Hu, S. (2026). Peak Pricing and Transfer Discounts Can Make Microtransit More Efficient. UC Office of the President: University of California Institute of Transportation Studies. http://dx.doi.org/10.7922/G2HT2MPD
- Saha, Ritun and Hu, Siwei and Hyland, Michael, Optimal Fare Policy and Fleet Sizing for an Integrated Fixed-Route Transit and Microtransit System (August 02, 2025). Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5382012
- Hyland, M., Watkins, K., Shaheen, S., & Martin, E. (2026). What Should Agencies Measure to Decide If Microtransit Is Working? UC Office of the President: University of California Institute of Transportation Studies. http://dx.doi.org/10.7922/G2ZW1JBF
- Hyland, M. F; Pike, S.; Hu, S.; Berkel, J.; Xing, Y.; Saha, R., et al. (2024). Integrating Microtransit Service with Traditional Fixed-Route Transit Costs More but Greatly Improves Access to Jobs. UC Office of the President: University of California Institute of Transportation Studies. http://dx.doi.org/10.7922/G2TH8K2W
- Slosky, J., Silver, F., Schuchard, J., Schuchard, R., and Welsh, D. (2022) Microtransit definitions, trends, and applications. Calstart https://calstart.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/CALSTART-Microtransit-Overview.pdf
- Miriam Pinski, Anne Brown, Nicholas Perloff-Giles (2026). Is microtransit a cost-effective alternative or a costly competitor to public transit?, Cities,Volume 169, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.106490.
Ep 117: Road Scholars on Density, Displacement, and Driving with Dan Chatman
Does building housing near rail stations reduce driving, even if it prices out lower-income residents? Dan Chatman's research suggests the answer hinges not on who lives there, but on how much housing gets …
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Does building housing near rail stations reduce driving, even if it prices out lower-income residents? Dan Chatman's research suggests the answer hinges not on who lives there, but on how much housing gets built.
- Chatman, D. G., Xu, R., Park, J., & Spevack, A. (2019). Does Transit-Oriented Gentrification Increase Driving? Journal of Planning Education and Research, 39(4), 482-495. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0739456X19872255
- Chatman, Dan (2015) Does Transit-Oriented Development Need the Transit? Access Magazine. https://accessmagazine.org/fall-2015/does-transit-oriented-development-need-the-transit/
- Chatman, D. G., Rodynansky, S., Boarnet, M., Comandon, A., Snyder, B., Patel, K., & Atkins, J. (2025). Assessing the Quantification Methodology for the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/99j4s0bp
Ep 116: ‘Stuck’ Book Club pt. 3 with Yoni Appelbaum
Part 3 of our book club series on Yoni Appelbaum's 'Stuck', covering chapters 9–10. Appelbaum himself joins us to wrap up the series. Read about the Lewis Center's work at …
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Part 3 of our book club series on Yoni Appelbaum's 'Stuck', covering chapters 9–10. Appelbaum himself joins us to wrap up the series.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Appelbaum, Y. (2025). Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity. Penguin Random House.
- UCLA Housing Voice episode 112: ‘Stuck’ Book Club pt. 1 with Attorney General Rob Bonta.
- UCLA Housing Voice episode 114: ‘Stuck’ Book Club pt. 2 with Giselle Hale.
- Sahn, A. (2025). Racial diversity and exclusionary zoning: Evidence from the great migration. The Journal of Politics, 87(4), 1302-1318.
- Reny, T. T., & Newman, B. J. (2018). Protecting the right to discriminate: the second great migration and racial threat in the American West. American Political Science Review, 112(4), 1104-1110.
- The Ezra Klein Show: What We Got Right — and Wrong — in ‘Abundance’ (YouTube) (Apple Podcasts)
- Stephanie Nakhleh’s chapter-by-chapter review of Stuck (part 1).
- Books:
- Leah Boustan, Streets of Gold
- Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
- Why Nothing Works, Marc Dunkelman
- Public Citizens, Paul Sabin
- Urban Fortunes, John Logan and Harvey Molotch
Ep 115: Road Scholars on Major Transit Stops with Jacob Wasserman and Aaron Barrall
California created a definition for major transit stops in state code and ties this definition to a lot of housing policies. Jacob Wasserman and Aaron Barrall explore the different ways this definition could be …
Show notes
California created a definition for major transit stops in state code and ties this definition to a lot of housing policies. Jacob Wasserman and Aaron Barrall explore the different ways this definition could be interpreted and how different approaches could mean more or less land available for increased development.
Show notes:
- Wasserman, J.L., Barrall, A., Millard-Ball, A., and Lee, A. (2026) “Stop” and Think about it: How the Different Interpretations of What Counts as a “Major Transit Stop” in California Make a Difference https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/41f86455a03a494c9a7b55e15bba1e8b
- Wasserman, J.L., Barrall, A., Millard-Ball, A., and Lee, A. (2026) Technical Appendix: Mapping High-Quality Transit https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7g41v63n#supplemental
- City of Burbank BRT concerns relating to designating areas for higher residential densities around transit stops pursuant to CA Senate Bill 79 https://granicus-aasmp-peak-files.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/pdf/4116669/SR_-_BRT_and_SB_79_Update.pdf?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIATHOFOHMMEOCNXD2W%2F20260529%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20260529T164040Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=a8fc425c4d77c31d5e9a46f90f029703bf03e4b558acdf02ec190f6269f9320b
Ep 114: 'Stuck' Book Club pt. 2 with Giselle Hale
Part 2 of our book club series on Yoni Appelbaum's 'Stuck', covering chapters 5–8. Giselle Hale joins us for the walkthrough, sharing her perspective as a former mayor and part of the Abundance …
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Part 2 of our book club series on Yoni Appelbaum's 'Stuck', covering chapters 5–8. Giselle Hale joins us for the walkthrough, sharing her perspective as a former mayor and part of the Abundance movement.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Appelbaum, Y. (2025). Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity. Penguin Random House.
- Sightline Institute’s Cruel Musical Chairs explainer video, plus its infographic version.
- Justine Underhill’s YouTube page.
- Episode 15 of UCLA Housing Voice: The Legacy of Redlining with Jacob Faber.
- Episode 43 of UCLA Housing Voice: Reexamining Redlining with Todd Michney.
- University of Richmond’s Mapping Inequality interactive redlining map.
- Books:
- The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein
- The Sum of Us, Heather McGhee
- The Affordable City, Shane Phillips
- The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson
Ep 113: Road Scholars on Parking Requirements with UC(LA)'s Amy Lee
California passed a landmark law in 2022 prohibiting cities from mandating minimum parking requirements near major transit stops. Amy Lee explores how cities and developers have responded.Show NotesLee, A …
Show notes
California passed a landmark law in 2022 prohibiting cities from mandating minimum parking requirements near major transit stops. Amy Lee explores how cities and developers have responded.
Show Notes
- Lee, A., Millard-Ball, A., & Manville, M. (2025). State Preemption in Theory and Practice: The Case of Parking Requirements. Urban Affairs Review, 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1177/10780874251385240
- Abstract: In U.S. law, states can override actions of local governments that contravene state interests. In practice, preemptions are often more ambiguous nudges, and local responses can vary by interpretation and interests. This paper explores one such case of state preemption: California’s 2022 law that limited local governments’ ability to require automobile parking. The authors find that the law’s complexity and ambiguity created intense debates about interpretations, in all jurisdictions, leading to heterogeneous implementation across cities. Local interests also motivated strategic responses to the law, which the authors present in a threefold taxonomy: cities interested in parking reform used it as a springboard; cities interested in parking reform but facing local resistance used it as a protective shield; recalcitrant cities treated it as an obstacle or subverted the law.
- California AB 2097 (2022): https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2097
- City of Sacramento History of Parking Mandates Memo https://www.cityofsacramento.gov/content/dam/portal/cdd/Planning/parking-revisions/A-Short-History-of-Sacramentos-Parking-Mandates.pdf
- HCD AB 2097 Technical Advisory: https://www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/default/files/docs/policy-and-research/ab-2097-ta.pdf
- UCLA Center for Parking Policy https://its.ucla.edu/programs/parking-center/
- Lee, A., Millard-Ball, A., & Manville, M. (2025). State Preemption in Theory and Practice: The Case of Parking Requirements. Urban Affairs Review, 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1177/10780874251385240
Ep 112: 'Stuck' Book Club pt. 1 with Attorney General Rob Bonta
We're doing a three-part book club series on Yoni Appelbaum's 'Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity.' This is episode one, covering chapters …
Show notes
We're doing a three-part book club series on Yoni Appelbaum's 'Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity.' This is episode one, covering chapters 1 through 4.
In the second half of the show, California Attorney General Rob Bonta joins us to talk about connections between the book's themes and his work enforcing housing and immigration law.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Appelbaum, Y. (2025). Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity. Penguin Random House.
- Stan’s substack, Everyone is Welcome.
- Housing Voice episode 61: Homelessness is a Housing Problem with Gregg Colburn.
- Housing Voice episode 101: Beyond Zoning with John Zeanah and Andre D. Jones (Incentives Series pt. 4).
- 99% Invisible Breakdown of the Power Broker.
- Elmendorf, C. S., Nall, C., & Oklobdzija, S. (2025). The folk economics of housing. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 39(3), 45-66.
- Housing Voice episode 38: The Housing Supply–Migration–Income Relationship with Peter Ganong.
- Books:
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
- The Economy of Cities, Jane Jacobs
- The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson
- Golden Gates, Conor Dougherty
- Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
- Why Nothing Works, Marc Dunkelman
- Public Citizens, Paul Sabin
- Albion’s Seed, David Hackett Fischer
- The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
- Polarized by Degrees, Matt Grossman and David Hopkins
Ep 111: Land Value Tax Would Fix This with Lars Doucet (Incentives Series pt. 11)
We close out the Incentives Series with Lars Doucet offering a primer on land value taxes, the ultimate incentive-aligned housing policy. This is part 11 of our series on misaligned incentives in housing …
Show notes
We close out the Incentives Series with Lars Doucet offering a primer on land value taxes, the ultimate incentive-aligned housing policy. This is part 11 of our series on misaligned incentives in housing policy.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Doucet, L. (2025). Land value return is needed, pragmatic, and achievable. Progress and Poverty [Substack].
Doucet, L. (2025). Enacting Land Value Return in Your Hometown. Progress and Poverty [Substack]. - Doucet, L. (2025). So You Want to Abolish Property Taxes. Progress and Poverty [Substack].
- Doucet, L. (2025). Mass Appraisal For The Masses: The Basics. Progress and Poverty [Substack].
- Doucet, L. (2025). Land value return is needed, pragmatic, and achievable. Progress and Poverty [Substack].
Ep 110: The Measure ULA Episode with Jason Ward and Mott Smith (Incentives Series pt. 10)
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 made a big splash. This is part 10 of our series on misaligned …
Show notes
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 made a big splash. This is part 10 of our series on misaligned incentives in housing policy.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Manville, M., & Smith, M. (2025). The Unintended Consequences of Measure ULA. UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies.
- Ward, J., & Phillips, S. (2025). Taxing Tomorrow: Measure ULA's Impact on Multifamily Housing Production and Potential Reforms. RAND Corporation and UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies.
- Green, D., Jambulapati, V., Liebersohn, J., & Velayudhan, T. (2025). Fiscal Externalities of Transaction Taxes: Evidence from the Los Angeles Mansion Tax. Available at SSRN 5273034.
- Manville, M., Smith, M., & Phillips, S. (2025). The Consequences of Measure ULA: Some Clarifications. UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies.
- Shane’s blog post about the BAE report on the impact of a 15-year waiver on the ULA tax for new multifamily and commercial development.
Ep 109: The Renter Wealth Creation Fund with Chris Herrmann
Enterprise Community Partners has been running a renter wealth-building program since 2022. How’s it going? And what comes next?Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.Follow our Substack at …
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Enterprise Community Partners has been running a renter wealth-building program since 2022. How’s it going? And what comes next?
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Enterprise Community Partners’ Renter Wealth Creation Fund website.
- The Renter Wealth Creation Fund term sheet.
- UCLA Housing Voice episode 108: Building Wealth by Renting with Shane Phillips and Bob Simpson.
- Phillips, S. (2025). Building Renter Wealth: An Evaluation of Shared Prosperity Rental (SPR) Housing Program Design and Feasibility. UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies.
- Executive summary for the SPR report.
Ep 108: Building Wealth by Renting with Shane Phillips and Bob Simpson
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 prosperity rental housing.Read about the Lewis Center's work at …
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 prosperity rental housing.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Phillips, S. (2025). Building Renter Wealth: An Evaluation of Shared Prosperity Rental (SPR) Housing Program Design and Feasibility. UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies.
- Executive summary for the SPR report.
- Shane’s 2021 article in The Atlantic, “Renting is Terrible, Owning is Worse.”
- Shane’s blog posts preceding and following the article in The Atlantic.
- Monkkonen, P., Carlton, I., & Macfarlane, K. (2020). One to four: The market potential of fourplexes in California’s single-family neighborhoods. UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies.
- The Multifamily Impact Council’s Multifamily Impact Framework.
- Enterprise Community Partners’ Renter Wealth Creation Fund website.
- Colorado Renter Rewards program website.
Ep 107: A Better Mortgage with Kevin Erdmann (Incentives Series pt. 9)
Fixed-rate mortgages are expensive, but adjustable-rate mortgages are volatile — but do they have to be? Kevin Erdmann pitches an alternative that captures the best qualities of both. This is part 9 of our …
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Fixed-rate mortgages are expensive, but adjustable-rate mortgages are volatile — but do they have to be? Kevin Erdmann pitches an alternative that captures the best qualities of both. This is part 9 of our series on misaligned incentives in housing policy.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Erdmann, K. (2021). A Suggested Mortgage Amortization Structure: Fixed Amortization, Adjustable Principal. Mercatus Center.
- UCLA Housing Voice episode 106: Mortgage Lending Standards with Kevin Erdmann.
Highlights: Ep 106: Mortgage Lending Standards with Kevin Erdmann
This is the shortened "highlights" version of episode 106. You can listen to the full interview here.Was the housing market really oversupplied in the mid-2000s? Kevin Erdmann says no, and he explains how this …
Show notes
This is the shortened "highlights" version of episode 106. You can listen to the full interview here.
Was the housing market really oversupplied in the mid-2000s? Kevin Erdmann says no, and he explains how this misunderstanding is at the root of present-day affordability problems. This is part 8 of our series on misaligned incentives in housing policy.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Erdmann, K. (2018). Housing Was Undersupplied during the Great Housing Bubble. Mercatus Center.
- Erdmann, K. (2024). Getting Corporate Money Out of Single-Family Homes Won’t Help the Housing Affordability Crisis. Mercatus Center.
- Erdmann Housing Tracker: Mortgages Outstanding by Credit Score
- Erdmann Housing Tracker: Follow-Up: Mortgages by Credit Score
- Erdmann, K. (2021). A Suggested Mortgage Amortization Structure: Fixed Amortization, Adjustable Principal. Mercatus Center.
Ep 106: Mortgage Lending Standards with Kevin Erdmann (Incentives Series pt. 8)
Was the housing market really oversupplied in the mid-2000s? Kevin Erdmann says no, and he explains how this misunderstanding is at the root of present-day affordability problems. This is part 8 of our series …
Show notes
Was the housing market really oversupplied in the mid-2000s? Kevin Erdmann says no, and he explains how this misunderstanding is at the root of present-day affordability problems. This is part 8 of our series on misaligned incentives in housing policy.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Erdmann, K. (2018). Housing Was Undersupplied during the Great Housing Bubble. Mercatus Center.
- Erdmann, K. (2024). Getting Corporate Money Out of Single-Family Homes Won’t Help the Housing Affordability Crisis. Mercatus Center.
- Erdmann Housing Tracker: Mortgages Outstanding by Credit Score
- Erdmann Housing Tracker: Follow-Up: Mortgages by Credit Score
- Erdmann, K. (2021). A Suggested Mortgage Amortization Structure: Fixed Amortization, Adjustable Principal. Mercatus Center.
Ep 105: Shane Talks Housing on Lusk Perspectives
Shane makes a guest appearance on USC's Lusk Perspectives to talk state housing law, barriers to missing middle housing and condos, managing transportation systems in densifying cities, building wealth for …
Show notes
Shane makes a guest appearance on USC's Lusk Perspectives to talk state housing law, barriers to missing middle housing and condos, managing transportation systems in densifying cities, building wealth for tenants, and more.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Overview of 40 years of California ADU reform by the California Housing Defense Fund.
- State of Los Angeles County Housing and Neighborhoods. Neighborhood Data for Social Change.
- Shane’s 2021 article in The Atlantic, “Renting is Terrible, Owning is Worse.”
- Shane’s blog posts preceding and following the article in The Atlantic.
- The Lewis Center report on “Shared Prosperity Rental Housing,” published in December 2025 and mentioned at the end of the interview.
Ep 104: Why We Don't Build Condos with Muhammad Alameldin (Incentives Series pt. 7)
Why do many U.S. states build so few condos? Muhammad Alameldin explains the role of construction defect liability laws — and how to fix them. This is part 7 of our series on misaligned incentives in housing …
Show notes
Why do many U.S. states build so few condos? Muhammad Alameldin explains the role of construction defect liability laws — and how to fix them. This is part 7 of our series on misaligned incentives in housing policy.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Alameldin, M., & Karlinsky, S. (2024). Construction Defect Liability in California: How Reform Could Increase Affordable Homeownership Opportunities. UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation.
- Economic & Planning Systems. (2025). The Financial Impacts of Construction Defect Liability on Housing Development in California. Terner Center for Housing Innovation and the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR).
- Shoag, D., Romem, I., & Garcia, D. (2023). The First Step Is The Hardest: California’s Sliding Homeownership Ladder. UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation.
Ep 103: Fire Safety in Multifamily Housing with Alex Horowitz (Incentives Series pt. 6)
In which types of homes are people safest from fires? Alex Horowitz shares research showing that multifamily is safer than single-family housing, newer homes are much safer than older homes, and that a single …
Show notes
In which types of homes are people safest from fires? Alex Horowitz shares research showing that multifamily is safer than single-family housing, newer homes are much safer than older homes, and that a single stairwell’s just as good as two. This is part 6 of our series on misaligned incentives in housing policy.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Rodnyansky, S., Horowitz, A., Clifford, L., Su, D., Smith, S., & Trivedi, S. (2025). Small Single-Stairway Apartment Buildings Have Strong Safety Record. Pew Charitable Trusts.
- Clifford, L., Rodnyansky, S., & Horowitz, A. (2025). Modern Multifamily Buildings Provide the Most Fire Protection. Pew Charitable Trusts.
- Baird-Remba, R., & Horowitz, A. (2025). How States and Cities Decimated Americans’ Lowest-Cost Housing Option. Pew Charitable Trusts.
- Wegmann, J., Baqai, A. N., & Conrad, J. (2023). Here Come the Tall Skinny Houses. Cityscape, 25(2), 171-202.
- UCLA Housing Voice episode 97, Single-Stair Buildings and Eco-Districts with Michael Eliason.
Ep 102: Minimum Standards vs. Affordability with Benjamin Schneider (Incentives Series pt. 5)
We’ve been grappling with trade-offs between stricter building codes and declining affordability for over 100 years. Benjamin Schneider helps us trace the history. This is part 5 of our series on misaligned …
Show notes
We’ve been grappling with trade-offs between stricter building codes and declining affordability for over 100 years. Benjamin Schneider helps us trace the history. This is part 5 of our series on misaligned incentives in housing policy.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Schneider, B. (2025). The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution. Island Press.
- Schneider, B. (2025 September 22). 106 Years Ago She Predicted Today’s Housing Crisis. What if we’d Listened? Planetizen.
- Wood, E. E. (1919). The Housing of the Unskilled Wage Earner: America's Next Problem. The MacMillan Company.
- Riis, J. A. (1890). How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
- A brief history of tenements in the US.
Ep 101: Beyond Zoning with John Zeanah and Andre D. Jones (Incentives Series pt. 4)
Your city just legalized “missing middle” housing in its zoning code… now what? With Memphis, Tennessee, as a case study, John Zeanah and Andre D. Jones discuss the hidden non-zoning barriers to developing …
Show notes
Your city just legalized “missing middle” housing in its zoning code… now what? With Memphis, Tennessee, as a case study, John Zeanah and Andre D. Jones discuss the hidden non-zoning barriers to developing small apartment buildings — and how to lower them. This is part 4 of our series on misaligned incentives in housing policy.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Zeanah, J. (2025). Beyond Zoning: Hidden Code Barriers to Middle-Scale Housing. Center for Building in North America.
- Garcia, D., Carlton, I., Patterson, L., Strawn, J., & Metcalf, B. (2024). Making missing middle pencil: The math behind small-scale housing development. UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation.
- Zeanah, J. (2022 January 12). Memphis, TN Amends Local Building Code to Allow up to Six Units Under Residential Building Code (IRC) to Enable Missing Middle Housing. Opticos Design.
'Beyond Zoning' Abstract:
In recent years, planners have made zoning reform a key priority to enable housing supply, including “missing middle” housing … This article explores the barriers beyond zoning that can hold back development of middle-scale housing. It begins with a background on why these lesser-known codes matter for housing diversity. This is followed by a case study of a project in Memphis, highlighting the non-zoning barriers posed to the development of an infill collection of cottages and small apartment buildings, and how they were overcome. Next, the article delves into specific categories of barriers, from building codes and fire safety mandates to infrastructure and local ordinances, explaining how each can impede middle-scale housing projects. Finally, it concludes with an Action Steps for Planners section, offering implementable strategies for reforming codes and coordinating across departments to unlock middle-scale housing development.
Ep 100: The Big 100!! Listener Questions, (Re-)Meet the Hosts, and Book Club
The hosts gather to celebrate the 100th episode of UCLA Housing Voice. We also answer listener questions and announce the first book for our book club.Read about the Lewis Center's work at …
Show notes
The hosts gather to celebrate the 100th episode of UCLA Housing Voice. We also answer listener questions and announce the first book for our book club.
Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.
Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.
Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Show notes:
- Appelbaum, Y. (2025). Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity. Penguin Random House.
- Appelbaum, Y. (2025 February 10). How Progressives Froze the American Dream. The Atlantic.
- Phillips, S. (2020). The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping it There). Island Press.
- Lens, M. C. (2024). Where the Hood At? Fifty Years of Change in Black Neighborhoods. Russell Sage Foundation.
- Lens, M. C., & Monkkonen, P. (2016). Do strict land use regulations make metropolitan areas more segregated by income? Journal of the American Planning Association, 82(1), 6-21.
- Manville, M., Monkkonen, P., & Lens, M. (2020). It’s time to end single-family zoning. Journal of the American Planning Association, 86(1), 106-112.
- Lee, A. E. (2023). The Policy and Politics of Highway Expansions. UC Davis. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13x3n8zr.
- Chapelle, G. (2018). Does social housing crowd out private construction? (Working paper). Science Po.
- Elmendorf, C. S., Nall, C., & Oklobdzija, S. (2024). What state housing policies do voters want? Evidence from a platform-choice experiment. SSRN.
- https://www.hcd.ca.gov/housing-open-data-tools/statewide-housing-plan-dashboard
- https://easyreadernews.com/aes-ruling-against-redondo-may-open-door-to-builders-remedy-developments-statewide/
- Episode 81: How New Zealand Passed Its Ambitious Zoning Reforms with Eleanor West
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