CSI & Imagine LA De-mystify the Social Safety Net for Working Families
The Bigger Picture
USC Senior Olivia Olson, speaks with USC Price Center for Social Innovation & Imagine LA to understand a partnership study that examined the complex social safety network for low-income working families to identify stagnation points.
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Students & Innovative Emergency Aid
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Even before the COVID pandemic brought the notion of precarity to the mainstream, students throughout the U.S. often faced different types of insecurity.
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What the Heck Is a SIB?
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Conversations about governmental and social services can get pretty wonky ... and yet, they are often vital for making real change, particularly at the local level.
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The LEWIS Registry
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The folks from the USC Safe Communities Institute stopped by to tell us all about the new LEWIS Registry. The LEWIS Registry is a crowdsourced public database for police officers who have been fired or resigned during an investigation of their behavior.
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Language, Law, & Race: A Conversation With Jody Armour
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Olivia Olson speaks with Prof Jody Armour about the power of "word work."
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The Case for Medicare to Cover Home Safety Renovations
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Falling is the number one cause of injury and the seventh leading cause of death in adults ages 65 and older.
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TOC & Affordability
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Los Angeles County has a housing problem. So how have recent ballot initiatives worked toward increasing density and affordability for county residents?
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Fair Chance Hiring in the City of Angels
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Victoria Ciudad-Real, John Roberson III, Gary Painter, and Jeffery Wallace join us for a conversation about Fair Chance Hiring. We'll get to the root of their collaborative project, "Accelerating Fair Chance Hiring Among Los Angeles Employers."
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COVID to Jobless to Homeless - Can We Prevent This?
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Daniel Flaming & Anthony Orlando stopped into a Zoom room with our EDÂ a few weeks ago to share findings from a new report. Their focus is on homelessness during and after the COVID pandemic.
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Angelenos Give Up Too Much for Housing
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Too many of our neighbors faced rental precarity before the pandemic. Folks from the Price Center for Social Innovations speak with us about their new report covering findings from a door-to-door survey done in 2019 to unearth the realities of families living with rent burden. What do real people have to give up when their rent is 30%, 40%, 50%, or more of their take home pay?
info_outlineAs soon as someone mentions housing affordability, and at the Price School that is everyday, I can't help but think of Jimmy McMillan. You might not remember his name, but likely you remember the name of his party: the Rent Is Too Damn High Party.
It is. We know that.
We know rent is high, in part its wage stagnation, slow development, high cost of living, low renter protections ... Today, we're speaking with folks from the Price Center to discuss a new report on housing affordability in L.A.
This isn't just another report on the monetary cost of housing, telling us more of the things we already know. The report covers findings from a door-to-door survey done in 2019 to unearth the realities of families living with rent burden. What do real people have to give up when their rent is 30%, 40%, 50%, or more of their take home pay?
Policymakers need to think about the other costs Angelenos are facing "when creating policy responses to protect renters during the COVID-19 pandemic."
Too many of our neighbors faced rental precarity before the pandemic. "Researcher and practitioner efforts must address the impending eviction crisis stemming from the pandemic shut-down as well as the more enduring task of tackling long-term rental affordability."
Aubrey Hicks speaks with Gary Painter (Social Innovation), Jovanna Rosen, Sean Angst, and Soledad De Gregorio about the impact of rent burden on two neighborhoods in Los Angeles.