UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge was recently featured in an article covering how the pandemic has disproportionately impacted dry cleaning small businesses throughout America. One in sex have closed or gone bankrupt already, and many more won’t survive without another round of stimulus, according to the National Cleaners Association. Nationwide, the industry is likely booking […]
As the pandemic makes an already terrible housing crisis worse, a new version of house-sitting signals a broken real estate market. In a recent article from the New Yorker, UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge was featured in its discussion of the LA housing market and homelessness crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic. Empty houses are a […]
UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge released a research brief today that examines the inequalities in access to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis uses data from the U.S. Census Household Pulse Survey (HPS) Phase 2 from August 19th to October 26th, when questions were added covering access to remote work, to assess the […]
On Wednesday, November 18, CNK Director Paul Ong spoke to news outlet NBC Los Angeles about which LA County neighborhoods are most vulnerable to COVID-19, and who should get priority in receiving the vaccine. Watch the full video here >>> Who Should Get Vaccinated First?
UCLA CNK was recently featured in a news article covering how the COVID-19 pandemic has hit small businesses hard, especially those owned by people of color. By April, for instance, 41 percent of Black-owned and 32 percent of Latinx-owned businesses nationwide had folded, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper published in […]
The once-grand Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza mall in Los Angeles seemed like a prime target for investors. That was before it got caught up in a combustible debate over local ownership, race and economic development. The surrounding neighborhoods offered a potential redevelopment gold mine, including one of the nation’s largest concentrations of affluent and middle-class […]
To help slow the spread of COVID-19 and save lives, UCLA public health and urban planning experts have developed a predictive model that pinpoints which populations in which neighborhoods of Los Angeles County are most at risk of becoming infected. The researchers hope the new model, which can be applied to other counties and jurisdictions […]
Paul Ong, director of the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge at UCLA Luskin, was featured in an NBC article discussing voting trends among Asian Americans. Early exit polls indicated that Asian American voters heavily favored Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden over President Donald Trump. While Biden performed well, the data suggests that Trump’s level of support […]
UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge released a new report on how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated preexisting food insecurity issues and inequalities. Although other research studies have documented an initial increase in food security during the pandemic, the researchers here (Tom Larson, Paul M. Ong, Don Mar, and James H. Peoples Jr.) found a continuing […]
In collaboration with Ong & Associates, UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge recently released a new report on the temporal pattern of the pandemic, the resulting shelter-in-place mandates, and the emerging research on pandemic impacts on minority-owned businesses. While previous studies have documented the pandemic’s impacts in marginalized neighborhoods on labor and housing markets, the report […]