Associate professor Kelly Lytle Hernandez and professor Caroline Ford of the UCLA Department of History have received $10,000 seed grants from the Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy for 2016-2017 to support their research.
Lytle Hernandez is working on a project with the Million-Dollar Blocks, a digital mapping code and protocol that allows researchers to visualize the costs of incarceration by showing how much a city, state, and/or county government spends per block on incarceration. She is working to apply the Million-Dollar Blocks code and protocol to Los Angeles County, which maintains the largest jail system in the United States. Lytle Hernandez also received a $107,488 Major Research Grant from the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation in support of this project.
Ford is pursuing the research project, “The Paris Housing Crisis and the Campaign for Affordable Housing, 1894-1940.” The project will begin with explorations of the origins of the concept of both private and state-sponsored affordable housing in the late 19th century, which was shaped by the Haussmannization’s failure to address the need for housing for the poor.
Find more details in this UCLA History announcement.
