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 explores the legacy of the Home Owners Loan Corporation’s (HOLC) redlining practices on urban development in the context of Los Angeles. The project draws upon multiple data sources to compare the […]
CNK Director Paul Ong and researchers was recently featured in a Zocalo article regarding the displacement of original Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino enclaves in Stockton, California, due to urban redevelopments. During the 1960s and ‘70s, the West End Redevelopment Project and CalTrans’ construction of Crosstown Freeway or State Route 4, tore down the vibrant and […]
CNK Director Paul Ong spoke with The Los Angeles Times and NBC Los Angles about California’s continued decline in population. The California exodus has shown no sign of slowing down as the state’s population dropped by more than 500,000 people between April 2020 and July 2022, with the number of residents leaving surpassing those moving in […]
CNK Director Paul Ong was featured in a Los Angeles Times article about long-standing barriers to socioeconomic mobility in South Los Angeles. For decades, residents of South Los Angeles have faced a lack of employment opportunities, housing and labor discrimination, and subpar education access. “If you look overall and compare it over a half-century, it’s […]
CNK Director Paul Ong spoke to USA Today about the impact of the pandemic on economic mobility and prosperity, particularly within communities of color. According to data from the Census Bureau, economic prospects improved for Americans across racial and ethnic demographics in the second half of the 2010s, but the pandemic halted much of that […]
According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s report card on how accurately it counted the U.S. population in 2020, it showed that Asians were overcounted at a higher rate than any other group. White residents were overcounted by 0.6%, and white residents who aren’t Hispanic were overcounted by 1.6%. The Black population was undercounted by 3.3%, those […]
CNK Director Paul Ong spoke to the Riverside Press-Enterprise about demographic shifts in Southern California as a result of the pandemic and the affordable housing crisis. The population of Los Angeles County has been declining for years as part of a statewide mass migration from coastal to inland counties and into other states. The pandemic […]
A newly released report, in conjunction with the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, finds that Latino and Asian households in California are behind on rent and lag in access to state rent assistance program. Using data from the US Census Bureau’s […]
A recent LA Times article reports that Los Angeles and San Francisco saw sizable declines in population during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, new census data show, underscoring how California’s housing crisis and other demographic forces are reshaping two of its largest cities. “We are in this new demographic era for California of […]
CNK Director Paul Ong recently spoke to the Associated Press about ways to address flaws in how the U.S. Census is conducted. The Census Bureau found that Black, Hispanic, American Indian, and other minority residents were undercounted at greater rates in 2020 than in the previous decade, prompting discussion about ways to better measure changes in the U.S. population. […]