Plus, dispelling oversimplified notions of crime and police violence, and how AI is impacting election disinformation.
| California’s housing crisis Southern California’s housing shortage and resulting affordability crunch have been decades in the making and impose widespread harms on residents. Since 2017, California lawmakers have passed over 100 new laws that affect housing planning, zoning, permitting processes, and building. Jenny Schuetz and Eve Devens find that these reforms haven’t made much of a dent yet in the region’s housing affordability or production problems. |
More research and commentary Crime and police violence. “In a nation grappling with a seemingly endless cycle of violent crime and police shootings, the public narrative often perpetuates a simplistic assumption: These issues are exclusively Black experiences. However, a closer examination of the data reveals a far more complex picture that challenges this oversimplified notion,” writes Howard Henderson. AI and election disinformation. On a special Election ’24 episode of The Current podcast, Valerie Wirtschafter explains where generative AI has played a role in disinformation campaigns and how policymakers, tech companies, and voters can build up guardrails to protect the integrity of election information. |
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