Affordable Housing

May 28, 2014

Bill Witte on Housing Affordability: A Supply and Demand Problem

Bill Witte, president of Related California, talks real estate, affordable housing, and a squeezed middle class with The Planning Report.

May 7, 2014

US Cities Leading the Way: Milken 2014 Global Conference

The Milken Global Conference panel “US Cities Leading the Way,” featuring Gavin Newsom and Kathryn Wylde, considers opportunities and challenges particular to the local level.

May 5, 2014

Soboroff on the Nexus of LAPD, Great Neighborhoods, and Great Streets

Police Commission President Steve Soboroff reveals how safe neighborhoods lead to a better Los Angeles.

August 1, 2012

Mercedes Marquez: LA City’s New Deputy Mayor for Housing

Interview with Mercedes Marquez, who, after serving three years with HUD and the Obama Administration, takes on the position of Deputy Mayor for Housing with the City of Los Angeles.

June 17, 2025

Vanessa Delgado: SCAQMD Chair & Mission-Driven Developer

TPR interviewed Vanessa Delgado, president of Azure Development and adjunct professor at USC Price who shares her personal journey developing mixed-use affordable housing in Boyle Heights and elaborates on project development hurdles roiling the market in LA.

March 1, 2024

CNN’s Homelessness In America Series Starting in LA with L.A. Mayor Karen Bass

Homelessness increased by more than 12% in 2023, reaching 653,104 people according to @USHUD —the sharpest increase and biggest population of homeless people in the US since the government began keeping these records. Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper, Los Angeles’ Mayor Bass announced a lofty goal of ending street homeless in Los Angeles by 2026. TPR presents an excerpt from that program and the appearance of Mayor Bass who ,when asked by Tapper what she hopes to accomplish by the end of her elected term, doubled down on what was one of, if not her biggest, campaign promise — making a massive dent in the homeless crisis.

March 1, 2024

UBC Panel: Is Local Democracy in the Way of Affordable Housing?

University of British Columbia’s Professor Patrick Condon, James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments in early February hosted the first of what will be a series of panels addressing the question: Is local Government the reason why Housing costs so much in Metro’s like Vancouver, Brisbane, and Phoenix? If yes - what should be done about that? TPR, with permission, shares excerpts of two of the panelists (Brisbane Australia’s Dr. Cameron Murray & Dr. Mark Roseland, Arizona State University) featured at this Vancouver, BC. forum. Later this month, TPR will feature more from Professor’s Condon’s UBC Series.

September 6, 2023

Hudson’s David Kramer Assesses LA Skid Row Housing Trust’s Collapse

TPR spoke with the President of Hudson Companies of NY, David Kramer, on the what housing models work and don’t work— as well as the different approaches New York City and Los Angeles have taken to date in their respective campaigns against the mounting pressures, external and internal, to prevent worsening homelessness conditions.

June 23, 2023

VX2023: Affordable Housing—The Vienna Model Panel Video

In this panel from VerdeXchange 2023, moderated by former Mayor of Culver City Alex Fisch, GGLO Architects' Gerhard Mayer, Global Policy Leadership Academy's Helmi Hisserich, LA Family Housing's Stephanie Klasky-Gamer, and the RAND Center on Housing and Homelessness's Jason Ward discuss if the Vienna affordable housing model could help build affordable housing on a large scale in California?

April 13, 2023

SoLa Impact’s Martin Muoto on Building Affordable Housing in LA at $250k per door?

TPR spoke to Martin Muoto, the Founder and CEO of SoLa Impact, on his mission to develop affordable housing at a fraction of current costs without any public financing.

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