The COVID-19 pandemic has renewed concerns about social and structural factors related to health disparities, including those related to HIV. As a partial response to an urgent need to understand whether elevated risk of COVID-19 disease and mortality among persons living with HIV (PLWH) results from related risk behaviors, a higher burden of comorbidities, and/or […]
Research by CNK Director Paul Ong was recently highlighted in a Los Angeles Times article focusing on COVID-19’s impact on Korean families involved in the dry cleaning businesses, which has struggled amid the pandemic. In 2015, Ong co-authored a paper that investigated ethnic mobilization among Korean dry cleaners in the United States. Starting in the […]
Despite new anti-eviction rules passed in response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, Los Angeles landlords are still trying to evict tenants by locking them out of their homes, turning off their utilities, and deploying other illegal methods. A Times analysis of data from the Los Angeles Police Department has found that the largest share of […]
In collaboration with the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, this new CNK brief analzyes household utility debt burden as another measure of the economic pressure facing low-income neighborhoods, with an emphasis on the impacts on racial equity. Utility debt burden in this brief is defined as the share of households in arrears (i.e., with past-due […]
Although transportation agencies were hopeful that the pandemic would be a catalyst for people to permanently drive less, this 2021 analysis of U.S. transportation trends indicates otherwise. Read the COVID Transportation Trends eBook from StreetLight Data to understand Vehicle Miles Traveled trends across the nation and state-by-state, as well as latest time-of-day commuting trends for […]
As a part of Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month, CNK Director Paul Ong was featured in an Equitable Growth article about the economic experiences of Asian Americans. The article highlighted scholars doing economic research on AANHPI populations and their experiences in the United States. Ong’s research focuses on people of color […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has had enormous economic impacts, including creating financial difficulties for many homeowners. While foreclosures have been lower during the public health crisis, primarily due to the current moratorium in place, many homeowners are still receiving pre-foreclosure notices with a disproportionate share going to disadvantaged communities. Many analysts and housing advocates fear that […]
Done in collaboration with the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative, this report compares the overall Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) death and vaccination rates of Latinos and non-Hispanic whites (NH Whites) and describes the geographic pattern of these rates across neighborhoods in New York City (NYC). As the first major epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
To celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the Washington Post asked Asian chefs and celebrities what role food plays in their lives. In interviewing chef and restaurateur Niki Nakayama, she describes how her latest challenge included opening a second restaurant during the pandemic, n/soto, which features bento boxes with collaborations. Among others, she has […]
A new report authored by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation and Center for Neighborhood Knowledge measures the extent of utility debt accumulation among customers served by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Disparities in unpaid bills predate COVID-19 but have deepened since the pandemic’s outbreak. Using data from a November 2020 California […]