Latinos make up 39.1% of the California population but only 18.4% of executive appointees on influential state governing bodies that play a critical role in advising the administration.
“It’s not an effort to alleviate poverty. It’s an effort to manage visible poverty and get it out of sight.”
“In the face of a pathogen that’s spreading in a way that we haven’t seen before … it’s not a bad idea to press pause for a period of time. The vaccine is on its way,” he says.
Pilot program to apply surface-cooling paint on city streets is one of several climate adaptation strategies that cities around the world are implementing.
In spite of ambitious housing and climate goals, California is squandering some of the most valuable land on earth on the low-value use of storing empty cars, he writes.
Findings from a new UCLA report emphasize the importance of community participation to identify needs and solutions at the neighborhood level.
“The housing system has created an institutional process that makes us more vulnerable to getting money taken away from us and more vulnerable to violence.”
Students from around the world gather at UCLA to reimagine their chosen field through a justice-first lens.
To compete for hundreds of millions in government funding for housing construction, cities must make strategic policy changes to accommodate development.
“We cannot wait for extreme heat policies to evolve across bureaucracies over decades. Chief heat officers must get many pieces moving quickly.”
