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Voting Rights Project in The Seattle Times: “Washington state added as defendant in Yakima Valley voting rights lawsuit”

The UCLA Voting Rights Project, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Campaign Legal Center, plaintiffs in the voting rights case, have requested that the court prohibit defendants from using the map and order the use of a new plan that does not dilute the strength of area Latino voters in the Yakima Valley.

Paula Nazario in Daily Bruin: “Study finds less relief given to Asian American, Latino renters during pandemic”

Paula Nazario, a policy fellow at UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Initiative and a co-author of the report, said the study determined that 15% of California renters experienced housing-related stress during the pandemic, adding that low-income renters and renters of color were more likely to struggle with paying rent.

UCLA Latino Applied Policy Research Awards 2022-2023

The UCLA-LPPI Latino Applied Policy Research Awards will support the translation of academic research into public-facing briefs that will inform local, state, or national policies. Through these awards, LPPI will support investigators and their teams through awards of up to 12 months to expedite the uptake of evidence-based practices, interventions, and policies to policymakers and other non-academic stakeholders that will use the findings to generate positive change for Latinos and other communities of color.

Eric Avila in Daily Beast: “The Growing Cap and Cover Movement That Wants to Bury American Highways to Undo Racial Inequities”

“In downtown Boston it’s made a huge difference in the experience of public space,” Eric Avila, a professor of history and urban planning at UCLA, told The Daily Beast. “Now, when you are in that part of Boston, you’re not standing in the shadow of an elevated interstate freeway, you’re standing in the middle of a green park that’s now reconnecting neighborhoods that were formally separated or divided.”

David Hayes-Bautista in Seattle Times: “How the U.S. lost 1 million people to COVID-19”

David Hayes-Bautista, a professor of medicine and the director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at UCLA, said more crowded housing might also have contributed to higher transmission rates, hospitalizations and deaths in Black and Hispanic families.

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