Economic Roundtable

Preventing homelessness requires looking ahead, not behind
Employment is effective and underused for combatting homelessness.
Hosting the 2028 Olympics with Clean Hands
LA has 4 years to house unsheltered residents, or face a public relations and human rights disaster.
Coming Soon! A Warehouse Near You
The ripple effects from clean trucks can build safe communities and livelihoods.

Excelling for the 2028 Olympics: Restoring, Not Displacing, LA’s Unsheltered Residents

September 4, 2024

Los Angeles’ most glaring flaw as host of the 2028 Olympics is the nation’s largest population of unsheltered homeless individuals living on its streets. If LA fails to make inroads on the problem, 2028 is likely to be a disaster for unhoused people and LA’s reputation. Restoring the lives of unsheltered residents will be an Olympic achievement for Los Angeles.

Photograph of diesel freight truck chassis and containers at the Port of Los Angeles by Daniel Flaming, taken March 10, 2022. Owned by Economic Roundtable, creation of ERt staff.

Coming Soon! A Warehouse Near You: Changes Following on the Heels of Zero-Emission Logistics

June 11, 2024

Diesel exhaust is bad for people’s health. It degrades neighborhoods near warehouses and accelerates global warming. Conventional diesel trucks are free riders on the air we share. Diesel fuel provides only 6.5 percent of their propulsive power. The rest comes from the air, which provides 14.5 times more combustion fuel than the petroleum in their tanks.

Basic Housing Grants to Reduce Homelessness in Los Angeles

April 25, 2024

Public policy in Los Angeles as long been blind to the central fact that unhoused people are extremely poor. Direct cash subsidies could help move tens of thousands of homeless Angelenos into housing at a far lower cost per person than our current system.

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Jobs Prevent Homelessness

March 06, 2024

Helping precariously housed people get decent jobs can have an immediate impact on reducing the number of homeless people living on the street.

Photograph of inland empire Amazon warehouse by Daniel Flaming, taken July 26, 2023. Owned by Economic Roundtable, creation of ERt staff.

Choosing concrete over people

September 29, 2023

Large warehouses, some covering more than 20 acres, are being developed in existing neighborhoods, sometimes just across the street from people’s homes.

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