Evan Farrar is a fourth-year undergraduate majoring in Public Affairs with a minor in Professional Writing. This year, he is completing a departmental honors thesis focused on quantifying neighborhood-level predictors of opposition to dense development in Los Angeles. As a supporter of the pro-housing movement and an elected councilmember serving on the North Westwood Neighborhood Council, he has noticed that incumbent homeowners often succeed in stopping or delaying proposed apartment buildings and other dense projects in Westwood. This exacerbates an already dire housing shortage, and it is for that reason that Westwood is now the most expensive neighborhood for renters in all of California. Evan’s current research aims to quantitively assess when and where these anti-development forces are successful, and why. Aside from serving on the North Westwood Neighborhood Council, Evan is an avid local volunteer for pro-housing causes and is President Emeritus of Bruin Democrats, UCLA’s largest political student organization. After graduation, he plans to work at the intersection of urban land use and real estate development before applying to PhD programs in urban planning.