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The UCLA Voting Rights Project is a project of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs aimed at creating an accessible and equitable system of voting for all Americans through impact litigation, research, and clinical education to expand access to the ballot box.

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News Articles & Media Coverage → Demography & Population Studies

Sonja F. Diaz in Boulevard Sentinel: “Redistricting and the future of NELA’s Council District 14”

The commissioner for CD 14 is Sonja F. Diaz, a civil rights attorney, policy advisor and the Founding and Executive Director of the Latino Policy and Politics Institute at UCLA. In a recent interview with Univision, Diaz said that the census’ undercount of some communities is still unclear. What is clear, she said, is that…

UCLA LPPI STATEMENT ON THE PASSAGE OF NEW VOTING RIGHTS LEGISLATION IN THE U.S. HOUSE ON AUG. 24

View as PDF Chad Dunn, Director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project, an advocacy arm of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute, issued the following statement in response to the U.S. House of Representatives passage of H.R.4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act: “Recent events have tested our country’s commitment to democratic elections, and demonstrated the…

Read More | August 25, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Sonja Diaz in Los Angeles Times: “Column: Gavin Newsom has been one of the most pro-Latino governors in California history, and he’s under attack for it”

Sonja Diaz, UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute founding director, said a successful recall would be a “lotto ticket for the Republican Party.” Republicans would use it in midterm election ads to rally national support for a right-wing agenda detached from science.

Read More | August 25, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Criminal Justice

Amada Armenta in Los Angeles Times: “ICE poised for changes as Biden nominee heads to Senate for confirmation vote”

That’s still not enough for Amada Armenta, a UCLA associate professor of urban planning who specializes in immigration enforcement. She’d like to do away with the collaboration programs altogether. When “immigrants [are] afraid to engage” with law enforcement, she said, “that’s bad for all of us.”

Read More | August 25, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Housing & Homelessness

José Loya in Houston Chronicle: “The secret bias hidden in mortgage-approval algorithms”

“Lenders used to tell us, ‘It’s because you don’t have the lending profiles; the ethno-racial differences would go away if you had them,’” said José Loya, assistant professor of urban planning at UCLA who has studied public mortgage data extensively and reviewed our methodology. “Your work shows that’s not true.”

Read More | August 25, 2021

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