LOIS TAKAHASHI, PHD

Session 2 AAPI Hidden Homelessness: The Problem and Potential Solutions Assemblymember Phil Ting Dr. Lois M. Takahashi Joyce Pisnanont Lisa Hasegawa ================= 2024 Asian American & Pacific Islander Policy Summit "Moving from Collective Knowledge to Action" Friday, March 8, 2024 8:00am to 6:30pm Featuring Keynote Speaker ROB BONTA California Attorney General Join us this year as we build upon the momentum of the 2023 Summit that focused on reimagining California by developing solutions that establish more equitable institutions, policies, and systems that work toward social justice for all — a future inclusive of Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander communities. This year's summit pushes for collaboration across sectors around critical advocacy for higher education, ethnic studies, hidden homelessness, civic engagement and voter participation, and other timely topics. Panel sessions will offer a dynamic platform for dialogue, collaboration, and strategic visioning towards the broader goal of transforming communities through collective knowledge, action, and care. The Summit brings together lawmakers, researchers, community-based organizations, students, philanthropic and private sector leaders working to break down silos, deepen coalition-building, and invest in a policy-research-advocacy infrastructure to better serve the needs of AAPI communities. The Summit is made possible in part by the Asian and Pacific Islander Equity Budget, which was a result of a statewide coalition of 116 community-based organizations and the California Asian American & Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus who advocated for these funds to support California's diverse AAPI communities. This event is co-organized by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, California Asian American & Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus, and Commission on Asian & Pacific Islander American Affairs.

From Health Equity to Health Justice: A Discussion of William Jahmal Miller’s book Equity, Equality, & Justice for All: Born to Be an Advocate Please join a panel of health-equity champions for a wide-ranging discussion motivated by the publication of Jahmal Miller’s book, “Equity, Equality, & Justice for All.” The panelists have deep experience in research, state government, and health delivery, and will discuss the themes raised by Miller's book in their own work to attain health justice at the community, regional, and state levels. Featuring: William Jahmal Miller Chief Administrative Officer, Dignity Health Mercy Medical Group Author, Equity, Equality, & Justice for All Michael Valle Deputy Director, California Department of Health Care Access and Information LaVonna Blair Lewis Professor (Teaching), USC Price Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lois M. Takahashi Professor (Teaching), USC Price Houston I. Flournoy Professor of State Government Coordinator, Master of Public Administration - Sacrament This event is hosted by USC Price in Sacramento, the USC Price School Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis and the USC Price Dean's Office DEI Initiative.

Lois M. Takahashi Houston I. Flournoy Professor of State Government and Director of the USC Price School in Sacramento The USC Sol Price School of Public Policy presents Price Talks: Policy in a Pandemic, a virtual series examining policy challenges around the COVID-19 pandemic. USC Price faculty share their expert perspective on the critical policy issues that are important to us all in 30-minute lunchtime Zoom presentations open to the entire Price community. Topics will include examining the impact of the crisis on the economy, the homeless crisis, voter turn-out in this year’s election, local government services and our public health infrastructure. Videos mentioned in Video: Web tracker of coronavirus/COVID-19 discrimination by A3PCON, Chinese for Affirmative Action, and SFSU Department of Asian American Studies: http://www.asianpacificpolicyandplanningcouncil.org/stop-aapi-hate/ “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” http://www.pbs.org/pov/watch/whokilledvincentchin/ Video reenactment of trial (Vincent Chin) by UC Hastings Law: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZtGm4XMO4w Michael Omi and Howard Winant; Racial Formation in the United States: https://www.routledge.com/Racial-Formation-in-the-United-States-3rd-Edition/Omi-Winant/p/book/9780203076804 Herbert Gans; War Against the Poor: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/herbert-gans/the-war-against-the-poor/9780465019915/ #USCPrice #PriceTalks

The State of California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) estimated that 70,000-110,000 new housing units are needed per year to keep housing prices from rising faster than the national average. What are the most important barriers to new housing construction and what can be done about them? Scholars Evgeny Burinskiy (Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Development, USC Price), Lois Takahashi (Houston Flournoy Professor of State Government and Director, USC Price in Sacramento), and Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) gather with industry experts Bert Selva (President and Chief Executive Officer, Shea Homes) and Dan Dunmoyer (President and Chief Executive Officer, California Building Industry Association) to discuss results from a new survey of California homebuilders, planning commissioners, and housing advocates. The survey, supported by a grant from the California Homebuilding Foundation, highlights the differences in perceptions stakeholders have about the development review process. Overall, each stakeholder group universally sees both traffic congestion and affordable housing as a crucial hurdle to overcome as California grows. More: https://lusk.usc.edu/perspectives

Can we design and build places that are beneficial to people’s physical, mental, and emotional health, while also advancing equity and protecting the health of the planet? Yes! Join the editors of the book, “Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Well-Being, Equity, and Sustainability”, together with moderator Dr. Lois M. Takahashi, Director of the USC Price School in Sacramento, for a conversation about how to make that happen. The panel will discuss the relationship of the built environment to equity and health disparities, climate change and resilience, new technological developments in the built environment, and the evolving impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. This 75-minute session will feature a moderated conversation among our panel of experts and then move into audience questions. Participants of the webinar will: - Learn some of the latest research on health and well-being, equity, sustainability, and resilience related to the built environment. - Gain practical information on the role of the built environment in addressing major societal challenges. Panel: - Katherine Catalano, Deputy Director, Center for Climate, Health and Equity at APHA - Nisha D. Botchwey, PhD, MCRP, MPH is the Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota - Andrew Dannenberg, MD, MPH, is an affiliate professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and in the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington in Seattle - Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH is Senior Vice President of the Trust for Public Land, and professor emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health

Lois Takahashi (Houston Flournoy Professor of State Government and Director, USC Price in Sacramento) moderates a panel of public and private stakeholders on the roadblocks and success stories of rebuilding housing after fire in California, including Dave Sanson (CEO, DeNova Homes), Geoffrey Ross (Deputy Director, Financial Assistance -- Federal Programs, California Department of Housing and Community Development) and Dan Dunmoyer (President and CEO, California Building Industry Association). As California currently has a housing crisis due in part to the difficulties of constructing new and large-scale housing in the state, the panel concludes that rebuilding communities impacted by natural disaster remains a challenging process. Sanson points out that though most communities lack the resources to act quickly in rebuilding that requires federal support, a lack of unity via local control and NIMBYism also can hamper rebuilding efforts. Ross acknowledges that the federal system is not yet attuned to the unique needs of responding to fire, having focused for some time on flood, tornado, or hurricane relief. Though the question “should we rebuild” in fire-affected areas deserves examining, Dunmoyer identifies that homebuilding is not immune to natural disaster anywhere in California or even the US and emphasizes safe and smart building as a responsible solution.

Project 19th is a collaboration with Cambria Solutions/kappy to design a modernized tool to recruit women to run for US elected office. Cambria Solutions was acquired by Ernst & Young in 2022. We are currently on hiatus and are revisiting our approach. Stay tuned!

This is a poster presentation on a research project that studied violence in the workplace for Chinese and Korean women who work in sexually oriented massage parlors. The poster presentation was given at the American Public Health Association annual conference in 2020.

Lois Takahashi (USC Price Sacramento) moderates a discussion on how COVID-19 is impacting state and local budgets with Tracy Gordon (Urban Institute) and Carolyn Coleman (League of California Cities). Gordon outlines the nationwide declines in revenue are dramatic and could take up to 10 years for unemployment to fully recover. Coleman’s focus on the local picture illustrates that across the board, cities of all sizes are coming up against a variety of shortfalls in revenue and likely reductions in services. Richard Green (USC Lusk Center) fields questions alongside Takahashi regarding how online retail is impacting tax revenue, how inequities are increasing during the pandemic, and the opportunities that this massive fiscal and social shakeup may provide. #USCPrice #USCLuskCenter #LuskCenter