The Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at 海角社区 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.
The Center for Community Food & Resilience
The Center for Community Food & Resilience (CCFR) is a project of the , an applied research and advocacy center with the mission of advancing community-driven programs and policies to build healthy, thriving communities while achieving social, economic and environmental justice.Working collaboratively with a wide range of community partners and organizations, the Center for Community Food & Resilience establishes projects and program models in the areas of , , , and the to achieve just and resilient food systems and healthy green communities.
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Major Research Flaws Undermine Authors' Bold Claims: Unpacking the Debate on Measure ULA
Greg Bonett, Jan Breidenbach, Scott Cummings, Peter Dreier, Regina Freer, Joan Ling, Deepika Sharma, Chris Tilly, Madeline Wander | September 2025
The report 鈥淢ajor Research Flaws Undermine Authors鈥 Bold Claims: Unpacking the Debate on Measure ULA,鈥 was released in September 2025 by researchers and scholars from UCLA, USC, 海角社区 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鈥檛 accurately describe Los Angeles鈥檚 real estate market.
Ground Truths: Community-Engaged Research for Environmental Justice
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鈥 relationships to communities for equity and mutual benefit.
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press鈥檚 Open Access publishing program. Visit to learn more.