RAND Research Topic: Urban Planning2024-03-19T02:52:14ZCopyright (c) 2024, The RAND CorporationRAND Corporationhttps://www.rand.org/topics/urban-planning.htmlWhy Is L.A. Still Letting Single-Family Homeowners Block Solutions to the Housing Crisis?RAND Corporationhttps://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2024/02/why-is-la-still-letting-single-family-homeowners-block.html2024-02-01T18:00:00Z2024-02-01T18:00:00ZSome constituencies will always oppose development. Los Angeles policymakers who are serious about solving the dual crises of housing affordability and homelessness have to take a hard look at how much political capital they are willing to spend to create effective policies in the face of such objections.Environmental Racism: How Historic Redlining Continues to Affect CommunitiesRAND Corporationhttps://www.rand.org/pubs/articles/2022/environmental-racism-how-historic-redlining-continues.html2022-06-27T09:00:00Z2022-06-27T09:00:00ZStarting in the 1930s, neighborhoods across America were redlined—marked on government maps as too hazardous, as in, too Black or too immigrant, for federal home loans. When zoning officials needed somewhere to put a new factory or freeway, those redlined neighborhoods were like a bullseye that they hit again and again.