UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy

🕊️Rest in Power Benito Flores

Brilliant organizers & artists make for brilliant discussions. Shoutouts to #UCLA Activists-in-Residence Lupita Limón Corrales & @jaisuazo.bsky.social for bringing light💫 to struggle @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social. The "(Dis)placement" 📽️series continues thru August>> cinema.ucla.edu/events/displ...

📽️Looking forward to this on Friday, July 18 @ 7:30pm 👇

REMINDER: This Sunday @ 7pm>> "Fluctuations of Home: Short Films From LA to DC" feat. #UCLA Activists-in-Residence @jaisuazo.bsky.social & Lupita Limon Corrales. Proud to co-sponsor this @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social film series, "(Dis)Placement: Fluctuations of Home." cinema.ucla.edu/events/fluct...

If you missed this fascinating talk organized by @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social, tune in at your convenience👇

Featuring our very own Associate Faculty Director Hannah Appel, this brilliant trio explore how the legacies of imperialism & debt continue to shape the world order.

‘Wall you can't get over’: When corporate landlord denies relief payments Some Black tenants are disproportionately being evicted by Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) in LA, a new UCLA study finds. KCRW hears from two sisters who’ve experienced this.

📻Interview w/@challengeineq.bsky.social researcher, Alex Ferrer>> Data from the #TenantPowerToolkit along with interviews reveal significantly disproportionate evictions of Black tenants in LA by REITs which have long-lasting effects on tenants' credit & housing access. www.kcrw.com/news/shows/p...

Thx to @reporterliz.bsky.social for this coverage. Meaningful relationships w/communities on the frontlines of struggle along w/public scholarship are key to abolishing structures of inequality. Full report co-published w/Venice Justice Committee👇 challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/06/25/k...

Demonstrators holding a sign that says "Comite de la Esperanza."

Two women sitting and talking in a living room.

A man teaching a boy to float in water.

Two women and a baby sitting on a balcony.

“(Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home”
Jul 13–Aug 17

The films in this series examine the fragile, shifting meaning of home — not just as shelter, but as identity, belonging and collective memory — in Los Angeles and global contexts.

Free: ucla.in/43Pmv0H
Co-presented by @challengeineq.bsky.social

A photo of downtown LA. A winding dirt path in the foreground. The LA skyline in the background.

INSURGENT GROUND: LAND, HOUSING, PROPERTY The Liberatory Politics of Land: From Los Angeles to Palestine Jessi Quizar, Mpho Raboeane, Kareem Rabie

INSURGENT GROUND: LAND, HOUSING, PROPERTY UCLA LUSKIN INSTITUTE ON INEQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY ORGANIZED 2016 INSURGENT GROUND: LAND, HOUSING, PROPERTY Edited by Ananya Roy, Terra Graziani, Annie Powers PUBLISHED BY UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy DESIGNED BY Em Dash PUBLICATION MANAGEMENT BY Marisa Lemorande PUBLICATION DATE May 5, 2025 ISBN 978-1-7351062-8-1 Photo credit (cover): Anthony Orendorff

I got (a photo) published in an academic publication. A picture I took on my Olympus XA2 film camera during a bike ride accompanies a wonderful piece about LA and Palestine. @challengeineq.bsky.social pub Insurgent Ground can be found here:

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LA laws criminalize Westside vehicle dwellers, plunging them into parking ticket debt A UCLA survey of nearly 100 people living in their vehicles found many also report harassment from housed neighbors, businesses, and police.

"If some ppl prefer living in rundown RVs to the sorts of housing pgms offered, if any are offered to begin with, then govt officials ought to critically question the efficacy of their pgms rather than...destroying residents' vehicles & leaving them on the streets.” lapublicpress.org/2025/06/ucla...

“Keep Moving”: West LA Vehicle Residents Survey A Venice Justice Committee Report via UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy

REPORT RELEASE: "Keep Moving" by the Venice Justice Committee & co-published by the Institute. Developed in collaboration w/organizers, community members w/lived experience of vehicle residency & university-based researchers. Report+virtual launch👇 challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/06/25/k...

Earlier this month we celebrated our phenomenal 2025 cohort of #UCLA Activists-in-Residence: Kari Okubo, Romarilyn Ralston, Kaya Dantzler, @jaisuazo.bsky.social & Lupita Limón Corrales! "Turning the university inside out,” they shared invaluable community-rooted knowledge & pedagogy with our campus.

A Retrospective on the Directorship of Professor Grace Hong Professor Grace Kyungwon Hong concludes her five-year tenure as Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center.

"Through her leadership, CSW not only expanded its institutional impact, but also reaffirmed its commitments to being a refuge for research in social justice and community collaboration." Congrats to our colleague, comrade, and friend, Prof. Grace Hong🔥 csw.ucla.edu/2025/06/11/a...

👇Read this thread and then go read @rahimk.bsky.social's newest publication, "Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing." We've added it to our summer reading list 📚

Can't pay, won't pay.

Excited to partner with @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social on the upcoming film series "(Dis)Placement: Fluctuations of Home." Join us for opening night on July 13th with #UCLA Activists-in-Residence @jaisuazo.bsky.social, Lupita Limon Corrales & filmmaker Diego Robles>> cinema.ucla.edu/events/displ...

"Corporate landlords are systematically attracting Black residents into white, upmarket neighborhoods, stripping their wealth, and then kicking them out again." The Institute's own graduate researcher, Alex Ferrer, reveals striking findings with unprecedented data from the #TenantPowerToolkit.

The rise of end times fascism The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Naomi Klein | Challenge Inequality

What an honor it was to have @naomiaklein.bsky.social give the Institute's Third Annual Distinguished Lecture in Ideas and Organizing. "Climate justice is not a luxury policy for better days. It is how we fight fascism." View her full lecture here>> challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/naomi-klein/

So excited for this!! Naomi Klein at @challengeineq.bsky.social

Insurgent Ground: Land, Housing, Property | Challenge Inequality Edited by Ananya Roy, Terra Graziani, Annie Powers via UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy

Hot off the press🔥"Insurgent Ground: Land, Housing, Property"📚An edited volume of collective scholarship from Freedom School 2024, which brought together a phenomenal group rooted in movements and engaged in organizing knowledge towards liberation. challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/05/05/i...

As authorities in Oregon displace over 100 vehicle residents and provide no alternative place to go, all in the name of environmental management, it is worth revisiting Institute fellow Sam Lutzker and Deike Peters' call for "multispecies justice" >> metropolitics.org/A-Crisis-of-...

We couldn't be more proud to support work by The Rent Brigade, a group of dedicated scholars & organizers who are exposing the LLCs, trusts, and investment vehicles that are rent gouging folks across LA County, alongside the epic failure of enforcement. Read this➡️ www.rentbrigade.org/report-april...

📣Postdoc opportunity! The selected candidate will develop the research, "Evictions and forced displacements: new urban dynamics from the mobilization of ‘risk’ as a device for territorial restructuring" under the supervision of the incomparable Professor @raquelrolnik.bsky.social 👇

🔥Badass is right! UCLA Activist-in-Residence Lupita Limón Corrales of @latenantsunion.bsky.social made a presentation to a group of tenants, and what became the Mohawk Street Tenants Association grew from there. Read more about this badass group of individuals who are changing policy citywide 👇

Grateful to have @movelbforward.bsky.social Exec Director @jaisuazo.bsky.social as our 2025 #UCLA Activist-in-Residence. Speaking to #UCLA students on the topic of community organizing: "How we organize is based on relationships - relationships are the bedrock of how we approach any social issue."

Corporate practices of racial banishment in Los Angeles Using a new dataset of eviction records produced through the Tenant Power Toolkit in Los Angeles and interviews with affected tenants, I trace the role of corporate landlords in driving new geograp...

📣New article out now by Institute graduate researcher, Alex Ferrer, thanks to data generated by the #TenantPowerToolkit, a legal mutual aid collaborative of @debtcollective.bsky.social @challengeineq.bsky.social and the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Looking forward to hearing from @challengeineq.bsky.social comrade and #UnequalCities researcher, Professor Gautam Bhan, on April 16th👇

🎊Kick off the weekend in Chicago & join the National Public Housing Museum for its grand opening, April 4-6. Thrilled to announce selections from the "Tents and Tenants: After Echo Park Lake" exhibition are on view inside the last remaining building of the Jane Addams Homes: nphm.org/event/grand-...

The National Public Housing Museum opens this week in Chicago. Here’s a sneak peek. The museum tells a less familiar story about the history of public housing. “It was a decent, lovely place to live,” a former resident says.

The National Public Housing Museum opens Friday. While many Chicagoans are familiar with the disinvestment, decaying buildings and gang violence associated with the projects, the museum aims to paint a fuller picture of the history of public housing.

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