Professor Valenzuela holds a joint appointment in the Department of Chicana/o Studies and Urban Planning. His research is primarily concerned with the issues faced by minorities and immigrants in the U.S. His work focuses on three key areas, which are interrelated: 1) immigration and labor markets, 2) poverty and inequality, and 3) immigrant settlement patterns […]
A presentation about Metro Rail and its likely future with the passage of Measure M, which will fund a comprehensive transit network.
A teach-in on protecting data on race and affordable housing with Chancela Al-Mansour, Executive Director of the Housing Rights Center.
Activists, residents, and community members will come together to discuss the struggle against gentrification and displacement in Boyle Heights.
Author Robert McDonald will discuss his new book. Reception, panel discussion, author Q&A, and book signing to follow.
We will explore the issue of homelessness, and the response of local institutions, from three different perspectives: a Skid Row resident and activist, a developer of permanent supportive housing, and UCLA’s own BruinShelter. Lunch will be provided.
Lecture featuring Ute Lehrer on "The Quest for Public Space in the Millennial Metropolis of Toronto's Condoland."
Discussions of rent control, stabilization and evictions, including exploration of California housing laws that affect renters and what can be done to give renters a more stable foundation.
'Black, Brown, and Powerful: Freedom Dreams in Unequal Cities' will shine a light on organizing frameworks and resistance strategies that challenge exclusion and refuse subordination.
Discussion of findings from study by the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge. Our panelists will examine what progress has been made in South LA, if any, in the domain of housing since the 1960s.
