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Ep. 108: Building Wealth by Renting with Shane Phillips and Bob Simpson
UCLA Housing Voice
UCLA Housing Voice
Ep. 108: Building Wealth by Renting with Shane Phillips and Bob Simpson
Mar 05, 2026
Season 5
Episode 13
UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
Joined by a 20-year veteran of Fannie Mae, Shane shares findings from his work on a proposed new model for building renter wealth: shared prosperity rental housing.
Show notes:
- Phillips, S. (2025). Building Renter Wealth: An Evaluation of Shared Prosperity Rental (SPR) Housing Program Design and Feasibility. UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies.
- Executive summary for the SPR report.
- Shane’s 2021 article in The Atlantic, “Renting is Terrible, Owning is Worse.”
- Shane’s blog posts preceding and following the article in The Atlantic.
- Monkkonen, P., Carlton, I., & Macfarlane, K. (2020). One to four: The market potential of fourplexes in California’s single-family neighborhoods. UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies.
- The Multifamily Impact Council’s Multifamily Impact Framework.
- Enterprise Community Partners’ Renter Wealth Creation Fund website.
- Colorado Renter Rewards program website.
