The Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College is an applied research and advocacy center.
Our mission is to advance community-driven programs and policies to build healthy, thriving communities while achieving social, economic and environmental justice.
Date/ Time: Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 6–8:30 p.m.
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Free, open to the publicGreg Bonett, Jan Breidenbach, Scott Cummings, Peter Dreier, Regina Freer, Joan Ling, Deepika Sharma, Chris Tilly, Madeline Wander | September 2025
The report “Major Research Flaws Undermine Authors’ Bold Claims: Unpacking the Debate on Measure ULA,” was released in September 2025 by researchers and scholars from UCLA, USC, Occidental College and Public Counsel. The report shows that a widely circulated report claiming that Measure ULA reduces multifamily housing development used flawed analysis, ignored the positive benefits of the housing programs it funds, and didn’t accurately describe Los Angeles’s real estate market.
Chad Raphael (Editor), Martha Matsuoka (Editor)
Univ of California Press | e-book | January 2024
This is the first book devoted entirely to summarizing the body of community-engaged research on environmental justice, how we can conduct more of it, and how we can do it better. It shows how community-engaged research makes unique contributions to environmental justice for Black, Indigenous, people of color, and low-income communities by centering local knowledge, building truth from the ground up, producing actionable data that can influence decisions, and transforming researchers’ relationships to communities for equity and mutual benefit.
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit to learn more.
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