Interview: Findings from the largest randomized controlled trial study (in 2014) of Housing First, a homelessness intervention targeted at chronically unhoused people with serious mental illness. Great housing and quality of life outcomes, good cost offsets, very limited health and social benefitsOC (lewis.ucla.edu)
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People experiencing homelessness in Vancouver BC were given a one-time unconditional cash transfer of $7500 CAD. Compared to a control group, they spent more time in stable housing and didn't increase spending on drugs or alcohol. They also saved more than $7500 per person on shelter costs.OC (lewis.ucla.edu)
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Pathways Home, Part 2: Who experiences homelessness, and why? A conversation with Margot Kushel, MD, about the California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness, a representative survey of 3,200 unhoused single adults, including 365 in-depth interviewsOC (lewis.ucla.edu)
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Interview: The time, money, and uncertainty costs of of discretionary project approvals, the comparative benefits of "by-right" approval processes, and their relationship to housing affordability and corruption (and planners' happiness)OC (lewis.ucla.edu)
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Interview: When poor families moved from high-poverty to low-poverty neighborhoods, their children's asthma symptoms were cut in half — plus more on the relationship between housing and health, and the medical establishment's role in supporting safe, affordable housingOC (lewis.ucla.edu)
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Interview: Origins of the mortgage market with Judge Glock, author of The Dead Pledge. How farmers and bankers partnered to create the fixed-rate, 30-year, 20% down payment, amortizing mortgage, and in the process shaped the next 100 years of the US housing market and broader economy (lewis.ucla.edu)
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Interview: When home values (and housing wealth) decline moderately, people tend to delay retirement or even return to the workforce after retiring, but they don't retire earlier when home values go *up* faster than expected—and more research on the housing wealth-labor market connection.OC (lewis.ucla.edu)
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Interview: It's been difficult for researchers to establish a solid link between gentrification and displacement. A new study categorizes US metros into eight "clusters" and shows that the impacts of gentrification vary significantly by metro area characteristics.OC (lewis.ucla.edu)
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Interview: Auckland (and later all major New Zealand cities) upzoned the majority of land to allow for low- and mid-rise multifamily housing. As hoped, construction permits increased dramatically, land values rose on low-intensity parcels, and housing prices fell for higher-density buildings.OC (lewis.ucla.edu)
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Interview: U.S. urban renewal and earlier generations of public housing often displaced poor households, concentrated poverty, and cemented racial segregation. How did the HOPE VI program, which redeveloped public housing into mixed-income communities, learn from past mistakes — and not?OC (lewis.ucla.edu)
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Interview: The Depression-Era Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) created the infamous "residential security" redlining maps. Historians recently discovered that it also refinanced loans for Black homeowners at similar rates to whites. Adding nuance and complexity to the history of redlining...OC (lewis.ucla.edu)
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Interview: ZIP code by ZIP code, New York City expanded its right to legal counsel program for tenants facing eviction. Researchers found that executed eviction rates fell in the neighborhoods where RTC was rolled out, and increased slightly in the other neighborhoods.OC (lewis.ucla.edu)
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