Download Full Report (PDF) Authors: Paul Ong, Jonathan Ong, and Chhandara Pech Date: July 30, 2025 This brief examines why ICE arrest rates varied so dramatically across U.S. states in early 2025. The findings reveal that states with stronger support for the 2024 Trump campaign and larger proportions of Latino non-citizens experienced significantly higher arrest […]
CNK Director Paul Ong was mentioned in a Los Angeles Times article regarding one of the first single Black female homeowners in the Pacific Palisades in the 1960s. By 1970, Ong’s data analysis revealed that about 2% of all homeowners in Los Angeles County were Black women. Usually, however, most of the Black female homeowners […]
CNK Director Paul Ong was interviewed by the CBS Evening News about the consequences of wildfires in neighborhoods located at Altadena. He emphasized that “Altadena represents and epitomized the gains that were made during the Civil Rights movement, particularly in housing.” However, given the losses that these wildfires caused, he asserted that Altadena remains “a […]
A recent study by CNK and its research partners on the impact of the Eaton Fire on Altadena’s Black community was featured in a KTLA5 article. Chhandara Pech, researcher and deputy director at CNK underscore why government officials need to be more precise on the information they are distributing to neighborhoods. “Government agencies should not only […]
A recent study by CNK and its research partners on the impact of the Eaton Fire on Altadena’s Black community was featured in a KTLA5 article. Read more about it here: Eaton Fire disproportionately affected Black Altadena residents, UCLA study finds Photo Credits: Jae C. Hong/AP Photo
CNK Director Paul Ong and researchers recently published a research project at the UCLA Ziman Real Estate, through the Rosalinde and Gilbert Research Program. The project examines the direct consequences of California’s Alien Land Laws on homeownership among Asians during the first half of the 20th century. The project utilized multiple data sources, showcasing the […]
CNK Team and researchers from the UCLA Latino Politics and Policy Instituted recently released a new report about the experiences of ethnic small business owners in Arizona. This report is the third one of the series of reports for CNK’s COVID-19 Equity Research Initiative, CNK’s initiative that focuses on empirical and quantitative analyses of informing […]