public policy

The Latino Policy and Politics Initiative at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs will fill a critical research gap and provide a think tank around political, social and economic issues.

Three urban planning professors note that L.A. has more land, and land value, than development, so a small land tax could raise more money for affordable housing.

Results of UCLA report are the first from a national effort to reform public hospitals.

Minimum parking requirements — rules that are imposed on developers of apartment buildings, among other builders, to provide parking spaces for their tenants — are partly to blame for the crisis in affordable housing in cities like Los Angeles.

UCLA Daniel J.B. Mitchell Daniel J.B. Mitchell is professor emeritus in UCLA Anderson School of Management and the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Panelists focused on ways in which California can continue to lead the charge via legislative and regulatory innovations at the state and local level.

In this Q&A about her new book, UCLA history professor Kelly Lytle Hernández highlights how decades of discriminatory policies gave rise to this dubious distinction.

Report by UCLA researchers finds that community choice aggregators provide a competitive alternative for electricity consumers.

Finance professor Bhagwan Chowdhry says protectionist barriers won’t stop robots from taking U.S. jobs.

New state and local policies promoting energy use transparency, public transit funding and sustainable development make researchers are optimistic for improvement.

Children 11 and younger have less developed cognitive skills and should not be help to the same level of culpability.

Americans toss out $165 billion worth of food each year, often out of safety concerns fueled by confusion about the meaning of the multitude of date labels on packages.

Second annual Quality of Life Index shows how residents feel about some of the Trump administration’s policies and also includes opinions on traffic, cost of living and gentrification.

UCLA School of Law is joining the Los Angeles Police Commission, the Los Angeles Police Department and two other law schools to help establish a policy for the release of body camera footage by the police department.

UCLA study shows that certified green buildings save 319 million pounds of carbon emissions in Los Angeles per year. Unfortunately, smaller buildings are left behind.

Historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez corrects the revisionist history of Operation Wetback, which in fact eased immigration law enforcement in the U.S.-Mexico border region.

To explain why L.A.'s fortunes started to fall and the Bay Area's began to rise, Michael Storper and Zev Yaroslavsky discuss what happened after 1970.

The center will foster teaching, research and collaborations across campus and beyond the university that will direct historical insights to shaping policies and solving problems.

In a city famous for traffic jams and rush-hour gridlock, a return to rail may be putting Los Angeles on the right track.

Sixty-two percent of California voters said access to coastal areas is a problem, and even more said that they were deterred by the cost of parking, overnight accommodations and transportation options.

A team from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health is helping to steer California’s high-speed rail project in a healthy direction.

Three students from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs are gaining real-world experience this year as David Bohnett Fellows working in the offices of Mayor Eric Garcetti at L.A. City Hall.

The study is released as the United Nations marks the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Research co-authored by UCLA professor Mark Kaplan attempted to explain how different aspects of an economic downturn affect suicide rates and alcohol-related suicides in particular.

The codirector of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA notes that students who participate in a good bilingual program perform better in English.