Michael C. Lens

Michael C. Lens

University of California, Los Angeles

H-index: 19

North America-United States

About Michael C. Lens

Michael C. Lens, With an exceptional h-index of 19 and a recent h-index of 15 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of California, Los Angeles, specializes in the field of Housing, crime, zoning, segregation, neighborhood effects.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Built out cities? A new approach to measuring land use regulation

California’s Strengthened Housing Element Law

Centering the institutional life of eviction

Fair Housing in California: Moving Forward or Spinning Wheels?

Do Land Use Plans Affirmatively Further Fair Housing?

Land use regulation and residential segregation

What is an Opportunity Enthusiast to Do?

Affirmatively Furthering Public Participation: Are California Municipalities Engaging their Communities in Planning for Fair Housing?

Michael C. Lens Information

University

Position

Associate Professor of Urban Planning

Citations(all)

1094

Citations(since 2020)

805

Cited By

578

hIndex(all)

19

hIndex(since 2020)

15

i10Index(all)

23

i10Index(since 2020)

21

Email

University Profile Page

University of California, Los Angeles

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Michael C. Lens Skills & Research Interests

Housing

crime

zoning

segregation

neighborhood effects

Top articles of Michael C. Lens

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Built out cities? A new approach to measuring land use regulation

Journal of Housing Economics

Paavo Monkkonen

Michael Manville

Michael Lens

2024/3/1

California’s Strengthened Housing Element Law

Cityscape

Paavo Monkkonen

Michael Manville

Michael Lens

Aaron Barrall

Olivia Arena

2023/1/1

Centering the institutional life of eviction

The sociology of housing: How homes shape our social lives

Kyle Nelson

Michael C Lens

2023/10/19

Fair Housing in California: Moving Forward or Spinning Wheels?

Paavo Monkkonen

Michael Lens

Moira O'Neill

Christopher Elmendorf

Gregory Preston

...

2023/9/12

Do Land Use Plans Affirmatively Further Fair Housing?

Journal of the American Planning Association

Paavo Monkkonen

Michael Lens

Moira O’Neill

Christopher Elmendorf

Gregory Preston

...

2024/4/2

Land use regulation and residential segregation

Paavo Monkkonen

Michael Lens

2023/12/1

What is an Opportunity Enthusiast to Do?

Housing Policy Debate

Michael C Lens

2023/7/4

Affirmatively Furthering Public Participation: Are California Municipalities Engaging their Communities in Planning for Fair Housing?

Available at SSRN 4628132

Paavo Monkkonen

Erik Felix

Shane Phillips

Moira O'Neill

Michael Lens

2023/11/7

Just housing: The moral foundations of American housing policy, by Casey J. Dawkins: Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, $40.00 (hardcover), 2021

Michael C Lens

2023/1/2

Renter nonpayment and landlord response: Evidence from COVID-19

Housing Policy Debate

Michael Manville

Paavo Monkkonen

Michael C Lens

Richard Green

2023/11/2

American murder mystery revisited: Do housing voucher households cause crime?: Housing Policy Debate, 2012

Ingrid Gould Ellen

Michael Lens

Katherine O'Regan

2022/7/14

Spatial Concentration and Spillover: Eviction Dynamics in Neighborhoods of Los Angeles, California, 2005-2015

Housing Policy Debate

Kyle Nelson

Ashley Gromis

Yiwen Kuai

Michael C Lens

2021/9/3

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

2019/9/3

Know your price: valuing black lives and property in America’s black cities: by Andre M. Perry, Washington, DC, Brookings Institution Press, 2020, 224 pp., $24.99 (paperback …

Katrin B Anacker

2021/9/14

Racial Justice and Housing Justice: Two American Illusions

Michael Lens

2022/10/2

Zoning and affordability: A reply to Rodríguez-Pose and Storper.

Urban Studies

Paavo Monkkonen

Michael Lens

Michael Manville

2022

Zoning, land use, and the reproduction of urban inequality

Michael C Lens

2022/7/29

It's time to end single-family zoning: Journal of the American Planning Association, 2020

Michael Manville

Paavo Monkkonen

Michael Lens

2022/7/14

Incorporating Data on Crime and Violence into the Assessment of Fair Housing

Michael C Lens

2021/3/19

Research roundup: The effect of market-rate development on neighborhood rents

Shane Phillips

Michael Manville

Michael Lens

2021/2/17

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Co-Authors

H-index: 46
Ingrid Gould Ellen

Ingrid Gould Ellen

New York University

H-index: 37
Michael A Stoll

Michael A Stoll

University of California, Los Angeles

H-index: 28
Paavo Monkkonen

Paavo Monkkonen

University of California, Los Angeles

H-index: 25
Michael Manville

Michael Manville

University of California, Los Angeles

H-index: 19
Kirk McClure

Kirk McClure

University of Kansas

H-index: 13
Vincent J. Reina

Vincent J. Reina

University of Pennsylvania

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