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The shortage of affordable housing in California has reached crisis levels. Many renters and owners throughout the state cannot afford the cost of adequate and safe housing. This crisis is especially acute in Los Angeles which continues to rank in the top tier of America's poorest major cities. Working class and middle income households remain at risk, forcing them to prioritize housing over healthcare, food and transportation.
On April 24th, the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate and Mercy Housing California cohosted the Moving Forward: Building Housing for L.A.'s Working Class and Middle Income Residents Symposium at UCLA Anderson. Our keynote speaker, Ben Metcalf, Director of California's Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), unveiled the latest Statewide 2025 Housing Assessment. Our expert panelists included: Ben Besley (Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles), Stuart A. Gabriel (UCLA Anderson & UCLA Ziman Center), Rick Jacobus (Street Level Advisors), Paul Ong (UCLA Luskin), Kevin Ratner (Forest City Residential West), Ann Sewill (California Community Foundation), and Doug Shoemaker (Mercy Housing California).
The 2017 Conference on Housing Affordability, sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, Bank of Israel, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Tel Aviv University, and UCLA, brought together economists, policymakers, and real estate industry professionals to discuss the causes of and solutions to one of the most serious problems in the United States and other countries: the shortage of housing affordable for lower- and moderate-income households. The conference examined government and private-sector programs designed to promote affordability, the role of regulatory constraints, innovative mortgage products, and other topics to identify the most effective path forward to make housing affordable again. Watch the videos.
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