Dear Friends:
I am pleased to share new updates from the Price Center for Social Innovation. Today, we launched the USC Area Housing Dashboard, which was developed in partnership with the Los Angeles Housing Department and the United Neighbors in Defense Against Displacement (UNIDAD) Coalition. The Dashboard is a product of community interest and advocacy, and its purpose is to inform community members, community-based organizations and local policymakers of housing trends in the community surrounding USC. I invite you to explore the dashboard here.
As always, thank you for your interest and support of the Price Center. I can be reached directly at gpainter@usc.edu if you would like to connect.
Best,
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Gary Painter
Director, USC Price Center for Social Innovation
Director, Homelessness Policy Research Institute
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USC Area Housing Dashboard |
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The USC Price Center for Social Innovation is pleased to announce the launch of the USC Area Housing Dashboard, developed in partnership with the Los Angeles Housing Department and the United Neighbors in Defense Against Displacement (UNIDAD) Coalition, a group of community-based organizations in South Central Los Angeles. The dashboard seeks to highlight the neighborhood data trends of the community surrounding USC including: resident characteristics, the built environment, and housing affordability and stability.
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Commentary | Biden Is Trying to Make Housing More Affordable. Without State Action, It's Not Enough
By: Dr. Gary Painter
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The Biden administration announced plans to provide 100,000 affordable homes to address the U.S. housing crisis. In his latest op-ed featured in Barron's, Dr. Gary Painter argues that state and local policy initiatives are also critically needed in order to increase the affordable housing supply.
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Research Article | Tax Equality for Immigrants: The Indispensable Ingredient for Remedying Child Poverty in the United States
By: Roberto Suro and Hannah Findling
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This report examines the unequal treatment of citizens and non-citizens in the US tax system and how it impacts the lives of immigrant families and plans to combat child poverty which are now under debate in Congress. Immigrants, chiefly the unauthorized, who do not qualify for a Social Security Number are required to pay taxes with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN). ITIN filers have the same income tax due as Social Security filers, but they do not receive the same credits. ITIN filers have never been eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and some of their children were excluded from the Child Tax Credit (CTC) in the Trump administration’s 2017 tax bill. Substantial expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit are critical to the ambitious initiative to halve child poverty that the Biden administration and Congressional Democrats are pursuing through budget reconciliation. Unless these efforts also include ITIN filers, they will leave behind about one of every five children in poverty. Nearly 2 million children – 1.6 million US citizens and 270,000 non-citizens – are living in poverty yet are ineligible for poverty-fighting tax credits because they have at least one undocumented parent. In a positive development, seven states recently have extended state EITC programs to ITIN filers, and others are debating similar measures. The paper proposes a full agenda of actions government and civil society actors could take to provide tax equality to immigrants. |
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New Data Story:
Neighborhood Wellbeing and Environmental Quality for Latino/a Communities in Southeast Los Angeles
By: Meghan Nazareno & Aileen Qin
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The environmental conditions one lives in is a social determinant of health that can impact an individual’s quality of life and risk of diseases, as well as the overall physical and mental well-being of the entire community. Historically, communities of color have long experienced multiple forms of environmental racism, which includes higher levels of pollution and overall worse environmental quality compared to majority White neighborhoods. To accompany the Latino/a Scorecard released by Alliance for a Better Community (ABC), this data story looks at Latino majority neighborhoods in Southeast Los Angeles and how environmental quality and neighborhood access affect community health.
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Unhoused: Addressing Homelessness During and After the Pandemic |
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The Price Center and the Schwarzenegger Institute are hosting a virtual event to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on homelessness and the housing crisis. Gary Painter, Director of the USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation and Director of the Homelessness Policy Research Institute, will provide a research briefing. Saba Mwine, Managing Director of the Homelessness Policy Research Institute, will moderate a panel that discusses lessons learned from the pandemic and ways to transform some of the short-term pandemic innovations into long-term solutions.
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UCLA's 2021 E.R. Brown Symposium:
Opening Doors for All: Improving Health in Housing and Homelessness
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The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) is bringing together thought leaders in the fight to end homelessness, to help identify past successes and lessons learned. Dr. Gary Painter, Director of the Sol Price Center for Social Innovation and the Homelessness Policy Research Center (HPRI) will be speaking at the symposium.
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Social Innovation Speaker Series:
Papia Debroy and Kate Naranjo
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On Thursday, October 21st, Papia Debroy, Senior Vice President of Insights at Opportunity@Work, and Kate Naranjo, Director of Opportunity@Work's STARs Policy Project, will discuss why the American Dream is not being realized by millions of families, particularly families with people of color. An analysis of workers and their jobs shows some clues on how we might change this. |
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From the Homelessness Policy Research Institute |
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Saba Mwine
Managing Director
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Having worked for three years as a Senior Program Manager at the Corporation for Supportive Housing, Saba Mwine joins HPRI as the new Managing Director. She will be responsible for advancing the Institute’s strategic vision to accelerate equitable and
culturally informed solutions to homelessness. She will also support the implementation of HPRI’s research agenda, and continue to work in close leadership with HPRI’s Race Equity Working Group and other stakeholders to establish equity frameworks for key areas of the HPRI’s work.
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Expanding NY's Earned Income Tax Credit Could Aid Thousands of Families |
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Will housing legislation ease crisis in California |
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Fight isn't over for many opponents of SB 9 and 10 |
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Outlet: USC Annenberg Media |
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ONGOING AT THE PRICE CENTER |
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Our Commitment
TO ANTI-RACIST VALUES
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In the wake of our nation’s call to dismantle systemic racism in our society, the Price Center is redoubling our commitment to embedding anti-racist values in all of the work that we do. Policy and systems change is necessary to address the deep-rooted structural inequities. |
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COVID-19
NDSC COVID-19 DATA MAP
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Our map will help our community better understand where cases of COVID-19 exist within the county, as well as the underlying vulnerabilities faced by Los Angeles residents. It is updated daily with information from the LA County Department of Public Health. |
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The USC Price Center for Social Innovation develops ideas and illuminates strategies to improve the quality of life for people in low-income urban communities. |
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LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CENTER
Contact Megan Goulding, Head of Strategy and External Relations,
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