UCLA Housing Voice

Why does the housing market seem so broken? And what can we do about it? UCLA Housing Voice tackles these questions in conversation with leading housing researchers, with each episode centered on a study and its implications for creating more affordable and accessible communities.

UCLA Housing Voice is a science podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 134 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts UCLA Housing Voice, a science show with 134 episodes published.

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  Episode #7

  Ep. 124: Reducing Homelessness with Rapid Rehousing with Brian Blackwell

  Sep 30, 20261h 14mS6

  Rapid rehousing provides short-term rental assistance to help people experiencing homelessness find market-rate housing. Brian Blackwell shares new research finding that it may be more effective than we thought. Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu . Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com . Email Shane at at shanephillips@ucla.edu and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn . Show notes: Blackwell, B., & Gross, M. (2026). Does Rapid Re-Housing reduce homelessness? Journal of Urban Economics, 154, 103889. Episode 64 of UCLA Housing Voice: Ending Family Homelessness with Beth Shinn. Episode 66 of UCLA Housing Voice: Chronic Homelessness and Housing First with Tim Aubry. Episode 87 of UCLA Housing Voice: Rental Voucher Lease-Up Rates with Sarah Strochak. Evans, W. N., Sullivan, J. X., & Wallskog, M. (2016). The impact of homelessness prevention programs on homelessness. Science, 353(6300), 694-699. Cohen, E. (2024). Housing the homeless: the effect of placing single adults experiencing homelessness in housing programs on future homelessness and socioeconomic outcomes. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 16(2), 130-175.

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  Ep. 122: An Overview of Preapproved Building Plan Programs with Seva Rodnyansky

  Sep 2, 20261h 6mS6

  Preapproved plan programs promise to speed up permitting and lower the cost of building new homes. How do they work—and are they working? Seva Rodnyansky shares findings from a review of more than 40 existing programs. Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu . Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com . Email Shane at at shanephillips@ucla.edu and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn . Show notes: Rodnyansky, S., & Su, D. (2026). Preapproved Building Plans Help Cities Improve Housing Affordability. Pew Charitable Trusts. Animated intro for The Irony of Fate , which depicts architects having their building designs rendered increasingly bland and uniform by Soviet bureaucrats. The pattern book for New South Wales, Australia , with plans for buildings up to 216 units! The province-specific housing catalog produced by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

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  Ep. 121: Exclusionary Zoning and the Great Migration with Alexander Sahn

  Aug 19, 20261h 10m

  Why is exclusionary zoning, which restricts land to expensive single-family houses, so commonplace in the US compared to other countries? Alexander Sahn shares strong evidence that local responses to a wave of migration by Southern Blacks in the middle of the 20th century played a big role. Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu . Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com . Email Shane at at shanephillips@ucla.edu and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn . Show notes: Sahn, A. (2025). Racial diversity and exclusionary zoning: Evidence from the Great Migration. The Journal of Politics, 87(4), 1302-1318. Boustan, L. P. (2007). Black migration, white flight: the effect of black migration on northern cities and labor markets. The Journal of Economic History, 67(2), 484-488. Derenoncourt, E. (2022). Can you move to opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration. American Economic Review, 112(2), 369-408. Grant, K. N. (2014). Relocation and Realignment: How the Great Migration Changed the Face of the Democratic Party. Syracuse University. Cui, T. (2024). Did race fence off the American city? The great migration and the evolution of exclusionary zoning [working paper]. Gallagher, R., Shertzer, A., & Twinam, T. (2026). Zoning and the American Suburb (No. 26-37). Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Lens, M. C. (2024). Where the hood at?: Fifty years of change in black neighborhoods. Russell Sage Foundation. Episode 23 of UCLA Housing Voice, on political representation and housing supply with Michael Hankinson.

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  YIMBY Country with Michael Andersen

  Aug 5, 202643 minS6

  This episode features clips from a few episodes of Michael Andersen's one-shot podcast series, YIMBY Country: "A podcast mini-series about what happens after you legalize housing. In this case, in New Zealand." Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu . Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com . Email Shane at at shanephillips@ucla.edu and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn . Show notes: Listen to YIMBY Country on Apple Podcasts and Spotify . Episode 45 of UCLA Housing Voice: What Happened When Auckland Upzoned Everywhere with Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy. Episode 81 of UCLA Housing Voice: How New Zealand Passed Its Ambitious Zoning Reforms with Eleanor West. Part 1 of the New Zealand Initiative's three-part series.

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  Ep. 120: How Exclusionary Zoning Hurts Poor Neighborhoods with Matthew Mleczko

  Jul 22, 20261h 11mS6

  When cities adopt exclusionary zoning, their housing stock becomes scarcer and less affordable over time. Matt Mleczko shares research suggesting that the impacts extend beyond exclusionary jurisdictions’ borders, hurting poor communities that have no say over their neighbors’ land use policies. Show notes: Mleczko, M. (2026). The Cumulative Exposure to Exclusionary Zoning in Impoverished Neighborhoods. Demography, 63(1), 213-239. The National Zoning and Land Use Database. Jones, P. (2010). The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee. Harvard University Press. Wikipedia page on ‘Sewer Socialism,’ a movement that started in Milwaukee. Perry, E. M. (2017). Live and Let Live: Diversity, Conflict, and Community in an Integrated Neighborhood. University of North Carolina Press. Fischel, W. A. (2015). Zoning Rules! The Economics of Land Use Regulation. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Goetz, E. G., Damiano, A., & Williams, R. A. (2019). Racially concentrated areas of affluence. Cityscape, 21(1), 99-124. Taylor, K. (2019). Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. University of North Carolina Press. Connolly, B., & Kazis, N. (2026). Rezoning the Rust Belt [working paper]. SSRN.

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