Los Angeles faces twin crises — a housing shortage and a climate emergency — and the solutions are more intertwined than our policy conversations typically reflect. This panel brings them together.

The panelists will discuss how land use in Los Angeles impacts our ability to address climate change. Where we build housing, how densely, and how close to transit are among the most consequential decisions our region makes for its carbon future. Compact, infill development reduces vehicle miles traveled, limits the urban sprawl that devours habitat at the region’s edges, and concentrates investment in communities that already have infrastructure and opportunity.

Panelists

• Nancy Barba, Portfolio Director at Frontier Energy

• Loraine Lundquist, Ph.D., Board Consultant on clean energy and air quality to LA County Supervisor Holly Mitchell at the South Coast AQMD, City of LA Rent Adjustment Commissioner, and Board Chair of LA Forward

• Stephanie Pincetl, Ph.D., Founding Director of the California Center for Sustainable Communities and Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

• Chris Rhie (Moderator), Founder and Principal of Rhie Planning LLC and Co-Founder of Urban Environmentalists Los Angeles