Now in its third year, ENGAGE has been helping make a positive difference each week in the local community, providing dinner, structured homework time, guest speakers, field trips and activities for neighborhood children. The program began when then-USC graduate students Jesus Diaz and Renee Burwell noticed a dearth of after-school programming for local children. Burwell is an alumna of the USC School of Policy, Planning, Development, having earned her MPA degree in '08.
November 6, 2009
The Los Angeles Times quoted SPPD Professor Richard Green in an article about mortgage giant Fannie Mae, which announced that it would allow people who are losing their homes to foreclosure to lease those properties back for up to a year at market rental rates. "This is a very wise business decision because these loans are underwater, and they are not going to get all of the money," said Green, director and chair of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate. "Fannie has an incentive to keep the homes reasonably maintained because they are going to want to sell them one day."
The Los Angeles Times quoted SPPD Professor Richard Green in an article about mortgage giant Fannie Mae, which announced that it would allow people who are losing their homes to foreclosure to lease those properties back for up to a year at market rental rates. "This is a very wise business decision because these loans are underwater, and they are not going to get all of the money," said Green, director and chair of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate. "Fannie has an incentive to keep the homes reasonably maintained because they are going to want to sell them one day."
November 5, 2009
The Los Angeles Times quoted SPPD Professor Richard Green in a story stating that the commercial real estate industry is expected to hit bottom in 2010. Green said that real estate industry leaders who are meeting at the Urban Land Institute's annual gathering in San Francisco are more optimistic than they were at this time last year, because they can see the reckoning finally on the horizon. Green, who directs the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, added that he isn't sure whether bankers will do what he thinks they should. "One thing that is worrisome is that banks are still delusional," he said, adding that they are extending weak loans while hoping for a turnaround that will preserve older, higher property values.
The Los Angeles Times quoted SPPD Professor Richard Green in a story stating that the commercial real estate industry is expected to hit bottom in 2010. Green said that real estate industry leaders who are meeting at the Urban Land Institute's annual gathering in San Francisco are more optimistic than they were at this time last year, because they can see the reckoning finally on the horizon. Green, who directs the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, added that he isn't sure whether bankers will do what he thinks they should. "One thing that is worrisome is that banks are still delusional," he said, adding that they are extending weak loans while hoping for a turnaround that will preserve older, higher property values.
November 5, 2009
The Los Angeles Times quoted SPPD Assistant Professor Elizabeth Currid in an article about real estate agents holding public open houses for homes valued at more than $10 million. Currid said that having people going through desirable properties has a positive spillover effect. "It's like gallery openings. The art may not be bought on the walls, but it bumps up people's interest. You are generating buzz," Currid said. "Yes, you take the risk of real estate tourists showing up at a $25-million open, but the flip side is those people may start thinking about their own homes. You plant the seed that it is worth it to look at the real estate market again."
The Los Angeles Times quoted SPPD Assistant Professor Elizabeth Currid in an article about real estate agents holding public open houses for homes valued at more than $10 million. Currid said that having people going through desirable properties has a positive spillover effect. "It's like gallery openings. The art may not be bought on the walls, but it bumps up people's interest. You are generating buzz," Currid said. "Yes, you take the risk of real estate tourists showing up at a $25-million open, but the flip side is those people may start thinking about their own homes. You plant the seed that it is worth it to look at the real estate market again."
November 4, 2009
More than 200 experts from the world of goods movement converged on the National Urban Freight Conference, which was organized by the METRANS Transportation Center, to discuss critical issues ranging from traffic to logistics to pollution. METRANS, a research partnership between USC and Cal State Long Beach, is directed by USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development professor Genevieve Giuliano.
More than 200 experts from the world of goods movement converged on the National Urban Freight Conference, which was organized by the METRANS Transportation Center, to discuss critical issues ranging from traffic to logistics to pollution. METRANS, a research partnership between USC and Cal State Long Beach, is directed by USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development professor Genevieve Giuliano.
November 4, 2009
The Contra Costa Times quoted SPPD Professor Glenn Melnick in an article about Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center acquiring a minority interest in EPIC Management, a Redlands-based physician group management company. The financial performance of medical groups has weakened in the least 18 months, and as a result many are seeking buyers, Melnick said.
The Contra Costa Times quoted SPPD Professor Glenn Melnick in an article about Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center acquiring a minority interest in EPIC Management, a Redlands-based physician group management company. The financial performance of medical groups has weakened in the least 18 months, and as a result many are seeking buyers, Melnick said.
November 4, 2009
The New York Times quoted SPPD Senior Fellow Richard Little about the new water package that would lead to a sweeping overhaul the state's troubled water system. "This is the most comprehensive water resources action that California has taken since the state water project in the '60s," Little said. "First of all, there is so much in it. And for the first time, they are tying ecosystem enhancement and environmental restoration directly to the infrastructure. Before, we always planned the projects and then mitigated the impacts. Now it is all on co-equal footing." The Riverside Press-Enterprise also quoted Little on the subject.
The New York Times quoted SPPD Senior Fellow Richard Little about the new water package that would lead to a sweeping overhaul the state's troubled water system. "This is the most comprehensive water resources action that California has taken since the state water project in the '60s," Little said. "First of all, there is so much in it. And for the first time, they are tying ecosystem enhancement and environmental restoration directly to the infrastructure. Before, we always planned the projects and then mitigated the impacts. Now it is all on co-equal footing." The Riverside Press-Enterprise also quoted Little on the subject.
November 2, 2009
USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development alumna Anupama Mann recently received the Gill-Chin Lim Award for the best dissertation on international planning for her thesis, "A Megaproject Matrix: Ideology, Discourse and Regulation in the Delhi Metro Rail." The award is given by the Global Planners Educators Interest Group at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development alumna Anupama Mann recently received the Gill-Chin Lim Award for the best dissertation on international planning for her thesis, "A Megaproject Matrix: Ideology, Discourse and Regulation in the Delhi Metro Rail." The award is given by the Global Planners Educators Interest Group at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
November 1, 2009
The Los Angeles Times quoted SPPD Senior Fellow Sherry Bebitch Jeffe about San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom dropping out of the California gubernatorial race. "Voters are a little chary of electing another novice," Jeffe said. "Where are you going to get that experience? In one of those six-year Assembly people who have nowhere else to go? I don't think so."
The Los Angeles Times quoted SPPD Senior Fellow Sherry Bebitch Jeffe about San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom dropping out of the California gubernatorial race. "Voters are a little chary of electing another novice," Jeffe said. "Where are you going to get that experience? In one of those six-year Assembly people who have nowhere else to go? I don't think so."
October 29, 2009
The Los Angeles Times cited research by the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute at USC which stressed the importance of getting students out from under the designation of "English-language learner" before they enter high school, when the chances of dropping out increase. "The United States has never learned what is the best way to teach English to English learners," said SPPD Professor Harry Pachon, president of the institute. "That's really a shortcoming." The research was also featured by National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Daily News, and La Opinion.
The Los Angeles Times cited research by the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute at USC which stressed the importance of getting students out from under the designation of "English-language learner" before they enter high school, when the chances of dropping out increase. "The United States has never learned what is the best way to teach English to English learners," said SPPD Professor Harry Pachon, president of the institute. "That's really a shortcoming." The research was also featured by National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Daily News, and La Opinion.