InterActions LA 2025: Advancing Housing & Transportation Solutions
To achieve California’s ambitious goals of addressing the housing crisis, improving the transportation system, enhancing people’s lives, and mitigating climate change, governments and agencies need to adopt new approaches to longstanding policy challenges. Academic research offers some solutions, but how to best implement these solutions remains a tricky question. At InterActions LA, the Lewis Center strives for answers from people who have been successful in their own cities.
By bringing together local leaders with policymakers and government officials from outside of Los Angeles and California, InterActions LA ignites conversations and exchanges ideas to increase equity and sustainability in the state’s housing and transportation sectors.
Registration
Registration fee includes day’s programming, plus breakfast, lunch and reception.
Regular: $50
Students & Nonprofits: $10-25
Schedule
Schedule is subject to change as more speakers are confirmed. Visit event site for up-to-date information.
8:30 am | Breakfast
9 am | Welcome and Keynote Speaker
9:30 am | Panel 1 | Housing Affordability at the Household and Community Level
Southern California cities must chart a new course on housing and land use policy. They must plan for much more housing production and meet ambitious affordable housing targets, overcoming tensions between these two goals, and they must do so in ways that break down historical segregation patterns. This has proven challenging, with many entrenched interests opposing these changes. These challenges are not unique to Southern California, however, and other West Coast cities have made great progress reforming their policies in recent years. They join us to share the nuts and bolts of their reforms, their early impacts, and the work and partnerships that made them possible.
- Spencer Gardner, Planning Director, City of Spokane
- Mahdi Manji, Director of Public Policy, Inner City Law Center
11 am | Panel 2 | Program and Infrastructure Approaches to Transportation Equity
Cities and transportation agencies must improve transportation systems to ensure the state meets greenhouse gas emission targets and that transportation access does not further disadvantage people and communities. Delivering innovative improvements requires new transportation management approaches like managing driving and reallocating street space. Cities can also enact programs that help address other transportation barriers and improve safety. This session explores approaches that innovate using infrastructure and programmatic approaches to better address transportation challenges and find ways to meet stated community needs.
- Madeline Feig, Transportation Wallet: Access for All Program Coordinator, Portland Bureau of Transportation
- Greg Francese, Transportation Planner, City of Hoboken
12:15 pm | Lunch
1:15 pm | Panel 3 | Making Change Happen Locally
This session will be a moderated discussion among local leaders to reflect on the themes previously discussed during the day and share how agencies and groups in the Los Angeles region can work to implement new approaches in housing and transportation. Where will leadership come from? What changes can fit within existing processes? Where is the political appetite and opportunity windows to change away from the status quo?
2:15 pm | Closing Remarks
2:30 pm | Reception
