"Climate Change" and Home Ownership

UCLA prof: 'We need to seriously question the ideal of private home ownership'

Mary Rose CorkeryTexas Campus Correspondent @corkery_mrose on Jan 08, 2020 at 1:59 PM EDT

• Professor Kian Goh is an urban planning professor at UCLA.
• She recently made her views on how to solve climate change public in an op-ed, titled, suggesting the need to rethink home ownership.

A University of California-Los Angeles professor made her views on climate change public in a recent op-ed, questioning American private homeownership in response to climate change, particularly California’s forest fires.
Professor Kian Goah, assistant professor of urban planning at UCLA, whose expertise includes urban ecological design, spatial politics, and social mobilization in the issues of climate change and global urbanization, argued in an op-ed for The Nation that what makes the California forest fires even worse is urban planning. Its subtitle reads, "if we want to keep cities safe in the face of climate change, we need to seriously question the ideal of private homeownership."

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