03 Shane Phillips, Affordable housing / Los Angeles
A conversation with urban planner Shane Phillips who advocates for an affordable city with concepts like supply, stability and subsidy and reflects about affordability, renting and ownership.
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03 Shane Phillips, Affordable housing / Los Angeles
Bio:
Shane Phillips, Master in Urban Planning, USC Price School.
Shane Phillips is an urban planner and policy expert based in Los Angeles. He manages the UCLA Lewis Center Housing Initiative, wrote a book about housing policy titled The Affordable City, which argues for the co-prioritization of supply, stability, and subsidy in housing policy and offers over 50 strategies for improving housing affordability and access.
Shane has taught public policy as an adjunct instructor at the University of Southern California. Shane previously worked as the Director of Public Policy for Central City Association, a Downtown LA advocacy organization, as well as roles with the Los Angeles Streetcar project and in City Hall. He’s also author of the www.betterinstitutions.com blog for many years, and hosts and produces the Housing Voice Podcast for the UCLA Lewis Center.
Shane has been commissioned to speak about housing affordability strategies and communications by a range of institutions, including state and local governments, professional trade organizations and community-based organizations, the Centers for Disease Control(!), and more.
Originally from Seattle, Shane has an eclectic background including time as a supervisor at UPS and a cable technician at Comcast, and over three years as a tuberculosis research scientist at the University of Washington. He’s proud to have been the first person in his family to go to college, earning a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from UW and later moving to LA to pursue a dual-degree Masters program in Urban Planning and Public Administration. Shane’s been car-free for over a decade and is a fan of sci-fi books and DIY home renovations.
Workplace: UCLA
Current city: Los Angeles, California
Podcast: UCLA Housing Voice
https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/programs/housing/ucla-housing-voice-podcast/
Websites of interest:
http://www.betterinstitutions.com/
Twitter: @ShaneDPhillips
Publications links:
Book
The Affordable City, Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping it There)
https://islandpress.org/books/affordable-city
Selected articles
· The Atlantic: Renting Is Terrible. Owning Is Worse
· Smart Growth Network Webinar
· The Henry George Program: The Affordable City and Rethinking Homeownership
· UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies: Housing Demolition and Redevelopment in Los Angeles
· UCLA Lewis Center: Research Roundup: The Effect of Market-Rate Development on Neighborhood Rents
· UCLA Lewis Center: A Call for Real Estate Transfer Tax Reform
· UCLA Lewis Center: Affordable Housing Primer
· UCLA Lewis Center: LA’s COVID-19 Response Should Prioritize Long-Term Rent-Stabilized Tenants for Housing Assistance
· UCLA Lewis Center: Does the Los Angeles region have too many vacant homes?
· UCLA Lewis Center: Increasing the Duration of Affordability Requirements for New Affordable Housing
· UCLA Lewis Center: Revisiting LA’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance and “Allowable Rent Increases”
· Los Angeles Times Op-Ed: Why is L.A. too pricey? Blame low vacancy rates, not luxury high-rises
· LA Times Op-Ed #2: Can pro-development and anti-demolition factions find common ground on affordable housing?
Key words:
Affordable housing, supply, stability, subsidy, housing affordability, renting, ownership, urban design.
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February ‘22