Generating new knowledge about the nature, magnitude and causes of inequality among and within LA neighborhoods.
UCLA Luskin School
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🚨NEW @UCLALatino and @KnowledgeLuskin Research🚨
A new California study sheds light on the experiences of ethnic-owned small businesses with access to capital, digital technology, and environmental sustainability practices, and the impacts of COVID-19 and climate change.
🚨 NEW UCLA CNK BRIEF 🚨
📊ICE arrests rose 200% under Trump, but the share classified as the “worst of the worst” fell from 28% ➡️ 12%.
📈Arrests not classified as public-safety threats rose from 22% ➡️37%.
📰: knowledge.luskin.ucla.edu/wp…
🚨 New research brief (CNK + Unseen): Latinos account for 96% of deportations despite being ~76–80% of the undocumented population.
📊 187K arrests, 126K deportations (Jan–Oct 2025)
📈 Noncriminal cases rising as priorities shift
📄: knowledge.luskin.ucla.edu/wp…
UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge retweeted
ICE agents were deployed to major U.S. airports during a government shutdown to help address TSA staffing shortages. Paul Ong notes their presence also raises concerns about ongoing immigration enforcement in everyday travel spaces. luskin.ucla.edu/?p=122987
🚨 New research brief:
Non-citizens in the highest-rate state were 30x more likely to be arrested than in the lowest.
📊Arrest rates were strongly tied to Trump 2024 support
📈Latino non-citizens were disproportionately impacted
📄bit.ly/45e4v0C
ALT Map showing ICE arrest rates per 1,000 non-citizens by U.S. state (Feb–June 2025). Highest rates concentrated in the Deep South; lowest along the West Coast and Northeast.
UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge retweeted
Wildfires continue to devastate LA County, taking lives and homes.
UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge retweeted
I'll be presenting on this @ucla_its research—the historical biases and current legacy of the siting of the 210—to @PasadenaGov at Pasadena City Hall on Wednesday, March 20 at 6:30 P.M.: cityofpasadena.net/city-mana…
Stark historical findings from @ucla_its & @KnowledgeLuskin: city & state planners routed the 210 freeway through NW Pasadena Black neighborhoods instead of an alt. route by the Rose Bowl, destroying 8× more homes & sparing a pop. 22 pct. pts. whiter storymaps.arcgis.com/stories… (1/4)
UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge retweeted
📊 A recent survey by UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute and the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge reveals crucial insights into the emergency preparedness of small businesses in California!
A thread🧵:
UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge retweeted
Research led by Paul Ong, dir. of @KnowledgeLuskin, will help guide a master plan for rebuilding Pasadena neighborhoods razed decades ago to make way for the 710 Freeway extension, a project that has now been abandoned. #UCLALuskin #UCLA @UCLA luskin.ucla.edu/lingering-im…
UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge retweeted
Read the Zocalo article authored by researchers from the @KnowledgeLuskin on the thriving Asian enclaves of Stockton, CA, that were razed in the mid-20th century in the name of “progress” — and efforts today to make amends. #UCLALuskin #UCLA @UCLA luskin.ucla.edu/how-stockton…
UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge retweeted
NEW Research: Our new study investigates the experiences of ethnic small business owners in AZ regarding access to capital, enviormental sustainability practices, & the impacts of COVID-19 and climate change. latino.ucla.edu/research/bus…
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UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge retweeted
This Friday, DEC 8 Paul Ong and @KnowledgeLuskin will present on the impacts of freeways on communities of color during the inaugural Select Committee meeting on Reconnecting Communities. @AlvarezSD
SD meeting details below⤵️
a80.asmdc.org/event/20231208…
UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge retweeted
The team at @KnowledgeLuskin and @ucla_its uncovered another example of the stark racial disparities between alternative freeway routes—and also, a rich description of Stockton's Asian enclaves and their communities' reaction and resistance to the freeway: its.ucla.edu/project/the-imp…
Xenophobia and racism placed Asian American communities in the path of the freeway and urban renewal. The neighborhood surrounding an unchosen route was predominantly white, whereas that of the chosen route was predominantly home to people of color: knowledge.luskin.ucla.edu/bu…. (2/4)
UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge retweeted
Historical research findings from @KnowledgeLuskin and @ucla_its: state and city planners routed the SR 4 freeway through the heart of Stockton’s Asian neighborhoods, displacing over a 1K people and destroying nearly 800 housing units. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories… (1/4)
Historical research findings from @KnowledgeLuskin and @ucla_its: state and city planners routed the SR 4 freeway through the heart of Stockton’s Asian neighborhoods, displacing over a 1K people and destroying nearly 800 housing units. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories… (1/4)
We are forever grateful to Lillian Galedo, Laurena Cabanero, Luna Jamero, Valerie Lee Acoba, Victor Mow, and Reverend LaVerne Senyo Sasaki for sharing their personal and community histories with us. (3/4)
Thanks to @JacobLWasserman @annehyoon @CaltransHQ @CaltransDist10 and many more for helping with this research. The full report, brief, and storymap can be found here: knowledge.luskin.ucla.edu/20…
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UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge retweeted
Led by @UCLASustainLA, UCLA's analysis brought together research expertise from several centers and departments: @UCLAIoES, @CCSCatUCLA, @KnowledgeLuskin, @UCLAlatino, @UCLASustainLA, @UCLAFSPH, @uclanaidcenter, and UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.
UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge retweeted
💡NEW @UCLALatino Research💡
A new study investigates the experiences of ethnic small business owners in Texas regarding access to capital, digital technology, environmental sustainability practices, and the impacts of COVID-19 and climate change.
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latino.ucla.edu/research/bus…
UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge retweeted
Information opens up opportunities for action. Read what Paul Ong, dir. of @KnowledgeLuskin, had to say to @AP about new Census Bureau projections showing an older, more diverse U.S. population by the end of the 21st century. #uclaluskin @UCLA #UCLA luskin.ucla.edu/ong-on-how-t…