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

June 11, 2024 / By Daniel Flaming, Anthony W. Orlando, Fernando Gaytan, Juan De Lara and Sophie Pennetier / Economic Roundtable

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 / By Gary L. Blasi, Benjamin F. Henwood, Sam Tsemberis and Daniel Flaming

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.
Image of the downtown Los Angeles skyline and foreground housing , by Daniel Flaming, 2023. Owned by Economic Roundtable, creation of ERt staff.

Places for Homes: Where Los Angeles Can Build More Housing: Concept Paper on Redeveloping Rent Stabilized Properties in the City of Los Angeles

September 20, 2022 / By Patrick Burns, Daniel Flaming and Ken Baar / Economic Roundtable

A Quarter of a Million New Homes: Concept paper exploring the potential for redeveloping existing, rent-stabilized housing sites at higher density to meet LA City's mandate to allow construction of 255,433 new homes, including 130,553 units for lower-income households.
Photograph by Tara, "Newark Liberty International Airport." Photograph uploaded to Flickr Creative Commons on January 18, 2009, taken on December 26, 2008. Protected under the CC BY-ND 2.0 (Attribution-Noderivs 2.0 Generic) DEED license. The Economic Roundtable is not using the material for commercial purposes, and is not redistributing a modified, remixed, transformed, or built upon version of the material.

Healthy Terminals: Assessing an Airports Healthcare Benefits Supplement in New Jersey and New York

April 5, 2020 / By Patrick Burns / Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ

Proposed Healthy Terminals Acts in New Jersey and New York would add a healthcare benefits supplement of $4.54 per hour, on top of the current PANYNJ minimum wage, for covered airport workers to use in purchasing quality healthcare.  We estimate the legislation would affect 34,533 airport workers at Newark Liberty, LaGuardia and JFK Airports, helping many end dependence upon Medicaid.

Image courtesy of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). "Cityscape" is published three times a year by HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R). Modified by the Economic Roundtable, to announce ERt's refereed paper appearing therein, Spring 2018.

Prioritizing Homeless Assistance Using Predictive Algorithms: An Evidence-Based Approach

April 6, 2018 / By Daniel Flaming / County of Santa Clara, Destination: Home

The current issue of HUD’s peer-reviewed journal, Cityscape, includes an article on the Silicon Valley Triage Tool that was developed by the Economic Roundtable. This statistical model provides a fair, objective tool for triage—prioritizing which individuals should have immediate access to permanent supportive housing. Santa Clara County voters have approved major investments in affordable housing for people experiencing homelessness, but the number of individuals who need housing still substantially exceeds the amount of housing that is available for them.   
Nurse coordinator Mark Block gives food and water to a homeless man living under an overpass on Oakland Road as staff members from Santa Clara County's Valley Homeless Program check on the homeless in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, June 22, 2017. (Patrick Tehan/Bay Area News Group)

Prioritizing Which Homeless People Get Housing Using Predictive Algorithms: An Evidence-Based Approach to Prioritizing High-Cost and High-Need Homeless Persons for Permanent Supportive Housing

April 29, 2017 / By Halil Toros and Daniel Flaming / Economic Roundtable

This paper explains the methods used to develop the Silicon Valley Triage Tool for identifying homeless individuals in jails, hospitals and clinics who have continuing crises in their lives that create very high public costs. The model is very robust and accurate, taking advantage of advanced prediction methodologies and a unique and exceptionally valuable database created by Santa Clara County, home to Silicon Valley, linking service and cost records across county departments for the entire population of residents who experienced homelessness over a six-year period – a total of 104,206 individuals. 
Photograph by Ashwini Chaudhary (Monty) “Room cleaning items in hallway” Published on January 28, 2020 on Unsplash. Free to use under the Unsplash License.

Impacts of Living Wages in the Airport Hospitality Enhancement Zone

December 8, 2010 / By Daniel Flaming and Patrick Burns / City of Los Angeles Administrative Officer

This study of the Airport Hospitality Enhancement Zone examines the economic impacts of minimum compensation requirements, outcomes from the non-tiered living wage requirement for both tipped and non-tipped hotel workers, and the costs and possible benefits of training for hotel workers. Hotels in the Airport Hospitality Zone are called upon by the City to pay workers a minimum of $10.30 an hour and $1.25 per hour in health benefits, or $11.55 an hour if health benefits are not provided. 
Photograph taken by David Sachs / SEIU, "Our Community, Our Jobs - March 02." Photograph uploaded to Flickr Creative Commons on March 27, 2011, taken on March 26, 2011 outside the Los Angeles convention Center. Protected under the CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED license. The Economic Roundtable has not changed, remixed, transformed, or built upon the material, and is not using it for commercial purposes.

Economic Footprint of Unions in Los Angeles

December 13, 2007 / By Daniel Flaming / the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor AFL-CIO (LACFL)

Union members make up roughly 15 percent of LA’s labor force. The economic context for unions in Los Angeles is a formal labor market that has been stagnant since 1990, with all net job growth occurring in the informal economy. More than a quarter of the labor force is impoverished. 
Photo by Simon Cunningham (LendingMemo), "Economic growth stock photo". Image credit LendingMemo.com; photograph uploaded to Flickr Creative Commons on December 29, 2018, taken on November 19, 2018. Protected by the CC BY 2.0 DEED license. The Economic Roundtable has not changed this image, and does not suggest the licensor endorses our use of it.

Planning Economic Growth

August 1, 2007 / By Daniel Flaming / Economic Roundtable

There are at least three reasons why it has become important for Los Angeles to exert purposeful influence on its own economic trajectory: The population has grown steadily but the number of jobs in the formal economy, where employers comply with labor law, is still below the level of 1990. 
Photograph by Neil Kremer, Advertising Photographer and Director represented by Heather Elder, "Los Angeles St." Uploaded to Flickr Creative Commons, taken at the corner of Los Angeles Street & 5th. Protected by the Creative Commons license.

Public Outlays, Local Jobs

November 1, 2006 / By Patrick Burns / the Ad Hoc Committee on Gang Violence and Youth Development, the Housing Community and Economic Development Committee of the Los Angeles City Council

We estimate that $1.1 billion in economic impacts generated by city purchases occur outside of Los Angeles County. There are opportunities to implement import substitution strategies to increase Los Angeles’ share of beneficial economic impacts from city purchases. Import substitution strategies will be most beneficial if they help build growth momentum for industries that are beneficial to Los Angeles.
Photograph by Luis Felipe Salas, "Poverty." Photograph uploaded to Flickr Creative Commons on October 15, 2009, taken on October 2, 2009. Protected under the CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED license. The Economic Roundtable has not changed the image, and does not imply that the licensor endorses our use. The Economic Roundtable is not using the material for commercial purposes, and is not redistributing a modified, remixed, transformed, or built upon version of the material.

Poverty, Inequality and Justice

March 23, 2006 / By Daniel Flaming / Economic Roundtable

The survival of a city depends on at least three things: people who are willing to live and work together, a reasonably healthy economy, and an effectively organized government. This paper discusses the health of LA's economy, how it got the way it is, and what can be done about it.
Photograph by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jim Greenhill, "100518-A-3715G-084." Photograph uploaded to Flickr Creative Commons on June 30, 2010, taken on May 18, 2010. United States government work, open to public use with attribution.

LA Workforce Investment

February 1, 2006 / By Patrick Burns and Daniel Flaming / the City of Los Angeles' Workforce Investment Board - Community Development Dept.

Los Angeles was home to 4.0 million people and 1.9 million workers were employed in establishments within city boundaries in 2005. This large metropolitan economy is made up of many diverse geographic and industrial elements. Despite what appears to be a large and robust economy, the workers and employers in Los Angeles still have challenges to overcome. 

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