UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge
@KnowledgeLuskin
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Generating new knowledge about the nature, magnitude and causes of inequality among and within LA neighborhoods.
UCLA Luskin School
Joined April 2014
🚨NEW @UCLALatino and @KnowledgeLuskin Research🚨 A new California study sheds light on the experiences of ethnic-owned small businesses with access to capital, digital technology, and environmental sustainability practices, and the impacts of COVID-19 and climate change.
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🚨 New research brief: Non-citizens in the highest-rate state were 30x more likely to be arrested than in the lowest. 📊Arrest rates were strongly tied to Trump 2024 support 📈Latino non-citizens were disproportionately impacted 📄 https://t.co/hosXNDcJfP
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Wildfires continue to devastate LA County, taking lives and homes.
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I'll be presenting on this @ucla_its research—the historical biases and current legacy of the siting of the 210—to @PasadenaGov at Pasadena City Hall on Wednesday, March 20 at 6:30 P.M.:
Stark historical findings from @ucla_its & @KnowledgeLuskin: city & state planners routed the 210 freeway through NW Pasadena Black neighborhoods instead of an alt. route by the Rose Bowl, destroying 8× more homes & sparing a pop. 22 pct. pts. whiter https://t.co/H3RGAv6Xzu (1/4)
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📊 A recent survey by UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute and the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge reveals crucial insights into the emergency preparedness of small businesses in California! A thread🧵:
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Research led by Paul Ong, dir. of @KnowledgeLuskin, will help guide a master plan for rebuilding Pasadena neighborhoods razed decades ago to make way for the 710 Freeway extension, a project that has now been abandoned. #UCLALuskin #UCLA @UCLA
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Research by the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge at UCLA Luskin will help guide Pasadena as it ponders how to rebuild a neighborhood razed decades ago.
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Read the Zocalo article authored by researchers from the @KnowledgeLuskin on the thriving Asian enclaves of Stockton, CA, that were razed in the mid-20th century in the name of “progress” — and efforts today to make amends. #UCLALuskin #UCLA @UCLA
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UCLA Luskin team recounts the discriminatory forces at play when thriving ethnic communities were razed to make way for a freeway and commercial development.
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NEW Research: Our new study investigates the experiences of ethnic small business owners in AZ regarding access to capital, enviormental sustainability practices, & the impacts of COVID-19 and climate change. https://t.co/YXHEIEhgFS 🧵1/7
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This exploratory study investigates the experiences of ethnic small business owners on the topics of access to capital, climate change, sustainability and the impacts of COVID-19.
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This Friday, DEC 8 Paul Ong and @KnowledgeLuskin will present on the impacts of freeways on communities of color during the inaugural Select Committee meeting on Reconnecting Communities. @AlvarezSD SD meeting details below⤵️ https://t.co/tH6sCLhT6n
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The team at @KnowledgeLuskin and @ucla_its uncovered another example of the stark racial disparities between alternative freeway routes—and also, a rich description of Stockton's Asian enclaves and their communities' reaction and resistance to the freeway:
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This project uses mixed methods to examine the systemic causes and consequences of the construction of Stockton, California’s Crosstown Freeway and of urban redevelopment for Asian Americans commun...
Xenophobia and racism placed Asian American communities in the path of the freeway and urban renewal. The neighborhood surrounding an unchosen route was predominantly white, whereas that of the chosen route was predominantly home to people of color: https://t.co/Ui8KxYNzsO. (2/4)
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Historical research findings from @KnowledgeLuskin and @ucla_its: state and city planners routed the SR 4 freeway through the heart of Stockton’s Asian neighborhoods, displacing over a 1K people and destroying nearly 800 housing units. https://t.co/i16YRmvZ57 (1/4)
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Thanks to @JacobLWasserman @annehyoon @CaltransHQ @CaltransDist10 and many more for helping with this research. The full report, brief, and storymap can be found here: https://t.co/shiGJoCO5V (4/4)
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We are forever grateful to Lillian Galedo, Laurena Cabanero, Luna Jamero, Valerie Lee Acoba, Victor Mow, and Reverend LaVerne Senyo Sasaki for sharing their personal and community histories with us. (3/4)
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Xenophobia and racism placed Asian American communities in the path of the freeway and urban renewal. The neighborhood surrounding an unchosen route was predominantly white, whereas that of the chosen route was predominantly home to people of color: https://t.co/Ui8KxYNzsO. (2/4)
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Historical research findings from @KnowledgeLuskin and @ucla_its: state and city planners routed the SR 4 freeway through the heart of Stockton’s Asian neighborhoods, displacing over a 1K people and destroying nearly 800 housing units. https://t.co/i16YRmvZ57 (1/4)
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Led by @UCLASustainLA, UCLA's analysis brought together research expertise from several centers and departments: @UCLAIoES, @CCSCatUCLA, @KnowledgeLuskin, @UCLAlatino, @UCLASustainLA, @UCLAFSPH, @uclanaidcenter, and UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.
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💡NEW @UCLALatino Research💡 A new study investigates the experiences of ethnic small business owners in Texas regarding access to capital, digital technology, environmental sustainability practices, and the impacts of COVID-19 and climate change. 🧵1/8 https://t.co/5Kz8ET9Si1
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This exploratory study investigates the experiences of ethnic small business owners on the topics of access to capital, digital technology, climate change, sustainability and the impacts of COVID-19.
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Information opens up opportunities for action. Read what Paul Ong, dir. of @KnowledgeLuskin, had to say to @AP about new Census Bureau projections showing an older, more diverse U.S. population by the end of the 21st century. #uclaluskin @UCLA #UCLA
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Census Bureau projections showing an aging, more diverse America by the end of the century can help the nation prepare for change, he says.
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In mid-20th century, a Foothill Freeway route displaced nearly 3,000 predominantly Black residents in Pasadena’s NW neighborhoods. Meanwhile, an alt route near the Rose Bowl — which would have impacted far fewer people — was rejected. Learn more ⤵️ https://t.co/MN0baFlnP7
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The Rose Bowl is a famous sports venue in Southern California, but did you know that it was used as an excuse to upend Black neighborhoods in the mid-20th century? Learn more about the decisions that led to the current location of the Foothill Freeway: https://t.co/aQG2GyZMSU
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This study was in collaboration with @UCLAlatino and made possible by the generous support of the Wells Fargo Small Business Philanthropy, the JP Morgan Chase Global Philanthropy, and the James Irvine Foundation. Read the report here:
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