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The Home-Insurance Coin Flip: Nearly Half of Claims Result in Zero Payout Home insurers pitch policies as a financial peace-of-mind safety net, but in a disaster customers can find the apparent guarantee of compensation evaporates.

In the May 2026 UCLA Economic Letter from the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate and UCLA Anderson School of Management Forecast, we explore prefab housing as an innovative solution to the cost and time difficulties facing Altadena families who lost their homes in the Eaton Fire. The research, community meetings and policy advocacy come from cityLAB-UCLA, an arm of UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, which has been on the forefront of modular housing. We spoke to Dr. Dana Cuff, cityLAB Founding Director and Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA, and other sources following the issue.

(PDF: https://bit.ly/May26-UCLA-Econ_Letter-Skelley) https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/about/centers/ucla-ziman-center-for-real-estate/faculty-and-research/ucla-economic-letter

Introducing the expert real estate panel for the UCLA Anderson School of Management Forecast & UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate Summer 2026 Economic Outlook:

➡️Tim Kawahara - Executive Director, UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate
➡️Jaymie Beckett ('07) - CEO, Housing on Merit
➡️Buddie Krugh - Vice President & Area Sales Manager, PNC
➡️Edward Ring ('03) - Founder & CEO, New Standard Equities, Inc.
➡️Oscar Wei - Deputy Chief Economist, CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®

📅 Date: June 3, 2026
⏰ Time: 9am - 12pm PT
📍 Location: UCLA Anderson School of Management
📺 In-Person & Virtual

Click ⬇️ for registration details as well as to learn more about all our speakers and sponsors!
https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/about/centers/ucla-anderson-forecast/events/Summer-2026-Economic-Outlook

To remember and honor: UCLA connects veteran community at Memorial Day event

Join us online on Monday (6/1/26) from 4-5PM (PT) for a UCLA Anderson Capstone Projects Zoom Presentation & Live Demo: THE REBUILD NAVIGATOR

How do families decide whether to rebuild after a wildfire, and what would help them coordinate? A UCLA Anderson School of Management capstone MBA team will present a year of primary research on post-wildfire recovery and give a live demo of the REBUILD NAVIGATOR, a prototype map-based platform designed to make block-level rebuilding momentum visible to residents, planners, and policymakers.

The team, Chris Jager, Jeff Leonard, Rodney Phillips, and Veronica Valerio, will share their findings, walk through the prototype, and take audience questions.

No registration required. Join Zoom Meeting:
https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95282047469?pwd=GyRQ4IMdl0KdthIV1TB8ZhaMu8KMgF.1

This online event is open to the broader UCLA community, and we particularly welcome local policymakers and others engaged in fire recovery work. Please feel free to forward this invitation to anyone who would find it relevant.

Data Center’s Water Use Draws Community Outrage This incident intensified local frustration over the rapid growth of data centers in drought-stricken Georgia…

UCLA BA '94/UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs MURP '96 alumna Lourdes Castro Ramirez, President and CEO of THE Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, joins Taylor Avakian on the NO VACANCY PODCAST for an in-depth conversation on the affordable housing crisis, Section 8 vouchers, public housing, and strategies to address homelessness in Los Angeles.

She Runs The Biggest Section 8 Housing Program In LA Lourdes Castro Ramirez, President and CEO of HACLA (Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles), joins Taylor Avakian on the No Vacancy Podcast for an in-d...

"Los Angeles Tried to Tax Mansions. Apartment Construction Tanked. Developers say the levy is making L.A.’s housing shortage worse. The city is considering changes: “There have been some unintended consequences,” said Miguel Santana, CEO of the California Community Foundation, a nonprofit that supported the tax when it was on local ballots in 2022."

Los Angeles Tried to Tax Mansions. Apartment Construction Tanked. Developers say the levy is making L.A.’s housing shortage worse. The city is considering changes.