Scott Laurie
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- Milken Institute1h 3m
2016 CA Summit - If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home by Now: Addressing California's Housing Shortfall
Jonathan Woetzel, Richard Bloom, Carol Galante, Scott Laurie, Aaron Wade
A comprehensive analysis details California's severe housing crisis, characterized by a 50-billion-dollar financial gap and 49th-place national ranking driven by tripled land costs, skyrocketing construction expenses, and restrictive local policies. Regulatory hurdles like unenforced regional housing allocations and NIMBY opposition have stunted supply growth while shifting market leverage toward labor trades and tightening financing requirements. Addressing this structural deficit demands explicit state intervention to standardize impact fees, modernize parking mandates, and accelerate modular construction adoption to align housing output with demographic shifts and economic realities.
- Milken Institute1h 2m
2015 CA Summit - Rescuing the California Dream: Policies for an Affordable Future
Evelyn Larrubia, Sean Burton, Scott Laurie, Manuel Pastor, Van Ton-Quinlivan
Speakers Scott Laurie, Manuel Pastor, and Sean Burton characterize Los Angeles as the nation's least affordable rental market, where severe supply constraints and regulatory hurdles have severed the link between housing production and growing household demand. Panelists identify critical bottlenecks including a collapse in construction activity, the wealth-exclusionary impacts of Proposition 13, and a shifting labor market that leaves high school graduates without viable employment pathways. To address these crises, the experts advocate for a coordinated cross-sector strategy integrating community college workforce training, streamlined entitlement processes for density, and proactive business leadership to stabilize wages and housing access.