by Mark Vallianatos | Jun 8, 2020 | Blog, COVID-19
This post is the last in a four-part series: Lessons from a Pandemic. Read the third post here. What does this mean for housing post COVID-19? COVID-19 is different than influenza; and cities, demographics, communications, technology and other factors are different...
by Mark Vallianatos | Jun 1, 2020 | Blog, COVID-19
This post is the third in a series: Lessons from a Pandemic. Read the second post here. Was LA’s housing boom a reaction against other, denser cities? Taken in isolation, L.A.’s 1920s housing boom would seem to suggest that pandemics, business closures and other...
by Mark Vallianatos | May 25, 2020 | Blog
This post is the second in a series: Lessons from a Pandemic. Read the first post here. Housing after the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic It’s too soon to answer these questions. But one factor worth considering is what happened after past pandemics. Just over a century...
by Mark Vallianatos | May 18, 2020 | Blog
This post is the first in a series: Lessons from a Pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic represents, in the words of a California legislator, “a whole new [housing] crisis on top of the one we were already experiencing.” The pandemic has made it harder for many residents to...
