Below are some of my publications that are available on the Web.
“Housing in Los Angeles: It Just Doesn’t Seem to be Getting Any Better”, In 2009 State of the City Report, pp. 14-16, Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Institute of Public Affairs, 2009.
How the Web Was Won: Web-Based GIS Tools for Health Advocacy (with Peter Manzo), In Using Maps to Promote Health Equity, The Opportunity Agenda and The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies’ Health Policy Institute, 2009.
“Housing in Los Angeles: Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel?”, In 2008 State of the City Report, pp. 5-9, Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Institute of Public Affairs, 2008.
Geographic Divides in Los Angeles County: Demography, Income and Housing, CCRS Research and Policy Brief, May 2008.
Seizing the Middle Ground: Why Middle School Creates the Pathway to College and the Workforce. United Way of Greater Los Angeles, 2008.
The Earned Income Tax Credit in Los Angeles County: Trends and Opportunities (with Edmund Khashadourian and Joseph Martinez), CCRS Research and Policy Brief, March 2008.
Homelessness in Los Angeles County (with Joseph Martinez), CCRS Research and Policy Brief, November, 2007.
“Is L.A.’s middle class coming back?” Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed, M6, April 8, 2007.
“Focus on Middle School to address impending workforce-skills gap.” Solutions for Our City, pp. 25-26, UCLA Anderson Forecast, April 2, 2007.
Quality of Life in Los Angeles: 2007 State of the County Report, United Way of Greater Los Angeles, 2007.
“Barriers to Information Technology Usage in the Nonprofit Sector.” (with Peter Manzo). In Nonprofits and Technology: Emerging Research, pp. 51-67, edited by Kevin Rafter and Michael Cortes, Chicago: Lyceum Books, 2007.
Technology and the Geography of Inequality in Los Angeles. (with Ali Modarres), Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs, prepared for Community Technology Foundation of California, 2006.
Latino Scorecard 2006: Road to Action, United Way of Greater Los Angeles, 2006.
“The Endurance of the Affordable Housing Crisis in Los Angeles.” In 2006 State of the City Report, pp. 8-10, Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Institute of Public Affairs, 2006.
“Community Informatics for Community Development: the ‘Hope or Hype’ Issue Revisited?” In Networked Neighbourhood: The Connected Community in Context, pp. 77-98, edited by Patrick Purcell, London: Springer Press, 2006.
Review of Making a Better World: Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles, by Don Parson. COMM-ORG: On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development, 2006.
“High Demand, High Cost: The Housing Crisis in the City of Angels.” In 2005 State of the City Report, pp. 14-18, Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Institute of Public Affairs, 2005.
“Housing Struggles for Working Families in California.” California Policy Issues Annual, vol. 6, pp. 34-55. Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Institute of Public Affairs, 2005.
Urban Disinvestment Revisited: Subprime Mortgage Lending and Slum Housing in the City of Los Angeles. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004.
“Los Angeles City Report” (with Neal Richman). In The Challenge of Slums: United Nations Global Report on Human Settlements 2003. United Nations HABITAT Programme, 2003.
“Community Mapping Community Mapping for Neighborhood Knowledge in Los Angeles” (with Nick Rattray). Community Technology Review, Winter/Spring 2002, pp. 15-17.
Review of Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century, by Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf, and Todd Swanstrom. Critical Planning 9, 2002, pp. 143-5.
“A Historical Perspective of Technology and Planning.” Berkeley Planning Journal vol. 15, pp. 32-55, 2001.
“Internet-based Neighborhood Information Systems: A Comparative Analysis” (with Neal Richman and Danny Krouk). In Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communication Technologies, pp. 275-97, edited by Michael Gurstein, Hershey, PA: Idea Group. 2000.
“NKLA: Neighborhood Improvement and Recovery is Not Just for the Experts!” Planners Network, May/June 2000.
