A Case for Promoting Infrastructure Equity for the Olympics

In2017, the Los Angeles City Council approved the bid for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games (LA28), a mega event, opening <a href="https://la28.org/en.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">on July 14th, 2028</a>, that occur across the county, drawing an estimated 15,000 athletes, most of whom will be stationed at <a href="https://la28.org/en/games-plan.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">UCLA’s Olympic village</a>. While the city’s bid has promised that no additional permanent sports infrastructure needs to be erected, there is still the matter of temporary event space and venue refurbishments to consider. The actual infrastructural lift for the events, however, will be the additional transportation and housing required. Both transportation and housing, as <a href="https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/unaffordable-housing-is-pushing-angelenos-far-from-their-jobs-thats-a-climate-issue-too" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Angelenos know all</a> too well, fall well short of residents’ needs on a daily basis. The added complication of a global event tees up many added complications to these already fraught forms of infrastructure. <a href="https://medium.com/rand-corporation/a-case-for-promoting-infrastructure-equity-for-the-olympics-648a9505b2ab">Read More</a>