UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate

Tim Kawahara is the founding Executive Director of the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate, a joint research center of the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the UCLA School of Law. Tim is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Center, including the development, implementation and oversight of the Center's numerous programs and activities. As the Center's founding executive director, Tim has guided the Center through a period of immense growth leading to global recognition.

Tim serves on several boards, including the Urban Land Institute’s Los Angeles District Council (ULI), were he also serves as chair of the ULI Housing Council; Lambda Alpha International (LAI), an honorary society for the advancement of land economics; and Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW). He has cultivated numerous strategic partnerships with both public and private organizations and institutions. Tim serves as an expert resource to the media, and frequently speaks to audiences on a wide range of topics related to real estate and the built environment.

Tim is a graduate of UCLA and the Executive Program of the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Sayantani joined the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate at the Anderson School of Management as a staff economist in August 2023. Specializing in urban, public, and real estate economics, she applies empirical techniques to analyze housing policies and inform quarterly forecasts for the Ziman Center and the UCLA Anderson Forecast respectively.

Sayantani's paper, "Intercity Impacts of Work-from-Home with Both Remote and Non-Remote Workers", co-authored with Jan K. Brueckner, UCI Professor of Economics, has been published at the Journal of Housing Economics: Special Issue on COVID-19 and Housing Markets.

Among other projects, Sayantani is currently working on an empirical paper that analyzes the county-level response of the U.S. housing market to selective COVID-19 regulations. The paper specifically focuses on the impact of shelter-in-place and eviction moratoria on housing sales and building permit approval.

Sayantani received her Ph.D. in Economics (specializing in urban and public economics) from the University of California, Irvine, in June 2023.


Contact: 
sayantani.sayantani@anderson.ucla.edu
www.sayantaniecon.com/

Stephen Day Cauley is the project manager for the CRSP/Ziman REIT Data Series for the Ziman Center. Dr. Cauley previously served as the Ziman Center's Associate Director for Research and as a Visiting Scholar in Finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he taught real estate investments. His research involves the application of recent advances in economics, finance and statistics to the valuation of publicly and privately held real estate. As part of this research, he has developed innovative statistical and visualization techniques to analyze spatial variation in real estate markets.

Dr. Cauley has held academic and research positions at the UCLA Department of Economics, and at the RAND Corporation. Additionally, he was licensed as a real estate broker by the State of New Mexico where he was a principal of a firm that formed and managed real estate limited partnerships. Dr. Cauley earned his Ph.D. in economics from UCLA.


Contact:
stevecauley.ziman@anderson.ucla.edu

Christina Green is the Associate Director of Budget and Finance and Program Director of the Housing as Health Care Initiative at the Richard S. Ziman Center for Real Estate at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Christina developed and launched the Housing as Health Care Initiative in 2018 to bring attention to critical issues at the intersection of housing, the built environment, and health. From housing affordability and well-building to community-based health care and climate change adaptation, Christina builds strategic partnerships across disciplines with the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, industry and community leaders, policymakers, and students. The goal of this initiative is to convene thought leaders, develop community, increase understanding, and discuss solutions through seminars, symposia, and roundtable discussions. As part of this work, Christina is currently supporting the California Integrated Care at Home Working Group to develop and advance a transformative statewide housing-based population health care coordination system (modeled after Support and Services at Home®) for California’s growing vulnerable aging population.

Previously, Christina worked for health care and nonprofit organizations, including Pfizer, Health Technology Associates, Spinal Cord Injuries Australia, and Clean Up Australia, where she focused on cultivating meaningful partnerships across sectors to promote human health and well-being.

Christina has an MBA from Columbia Business School, an MPH from the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, and a BA in the History of Science and Medicine from Yale College. She currently serves as a Member of the National Well Home Network’s (NWHN) Board of Directors; NWHN is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to foster housing-based service models across the country.