The UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy advances research and scholarship concerned with displacement and dispossession in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the world. The Institute's UCLA Downtown presence will create a Research Justice Hub that shares and disseminates research justice methodologies with other centers at UCLA and beyond.
Services Provided
Research focused on key sites of struggle within and against racial capitalism: housing, land, and property; money and finance; and migration and border regimes.
Who We Serve
Policymakers, academics, and the public.
Mission and Goals
To advance research and scholarship concerned with displacement and dispossession in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the world. Working in alliance with social movements and communities on the frontlines of struggle, the Institute seeks to abolish structures of inequality.