Rebuilding L.A.: Where Do We Go From Here?

Los Angeles Times, June 11, 2025

For the inaugural episode of the Los Angeles Times’ rebuilding podcast, I spoke in depth about the housing challenges that survivors face following January 2025 wildfires.

Today, Explained: Rebuilding Los Angeles

Vox, February 3, 2025

In the immediate aftermath of the wildfires, I joined Vox’s Today, Explained podcast to discuss rebuilding, rent gouging, President Trump, the 2028 Olympics and many other housing issues that emerged.

Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Podcast

August 2017 — March 2023

With California’s housing costs continuing to rise, I co-founded a podcast in summer 2017 to dig deeply into the sources of the problem. Over the next five and a half years, we published more than 100 episodes breaking down a particular aspect of the California’s housing troubles and included an interview with a housing expert or newsmaker.

Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Pod · What do mountain lions have to do with California housing?

AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s efforts failed Skid Row residents

KCRW, November 21, 2023

My interview on KCRW, a Los Angeles public radio affiliate, dug into our investigation of the world’s largest AIDS charity’s troubled tenure operating single-room occupancy hotels in Skid Row.

As freeways expand, Black and Latino communities bear the brunt

NPR All Things Considered, December 12, 2021

I discussed our investigation on how modern-day freeway projects are continuing to displace residents in Black and Latino neighborhoods on NPR’s weekend news show. The piece also addresses concerns that $1-trillion infrastructure law signed by President Biden in 2021 could further exacerbate these harms.

Randall Lewis Seminar Series: California’s Housing Crisis

UC Riverside, October 5, 2017

California’s high cost of housing is a political problem caused in part because the state Legislature cannot agree to fundamental changes to rules for how homebuilding is approved and financed. In an interview for the Randall Lewis Seminar Series at UC Riverside, I explained why so many interest groups are at odds and why the Legislature doesn’t solve the problem.