Frederick Zimmerman

Dr. Frederick Zimmerman is an economist and a professor of Public Health at UCLA. Since 2008, he has lived in Santa Monica, and he bikes to and from UCLA, sometimes on Wilshire. Zimmerman also has a particular interest in how economic structure—including poverty and inequality—influence population health. He also blogs about finding public health in unexpected places at http://uclacha.org/blog

Joined: April 29, 2016
Articles: 2

Housing, Opinion

Opinion: The Only Certain Thing is Uncertainty

On Tuesday, the Santa Monica City Council faced a difficult choice: whether to require 20-30 percent of units in new construction downtown be affordable, or whether to leave the requirement at only 15-20 percent. This is a difficult decision, with…

Frederick Zimmerman
July 27, 2017

Election 2016, Housing, Opinion, Politics

LUVE’s Labour’s Lost

[pullquote align=left] Residocracy wants to reduce traffic—the time price of accessing Santa Monica—by limiting the number of people who live here. That’s like trying to reduce the cost of the box seats behind home plate by reducing the number of…

Frederick Zimmerman
April 29, 2016