How I Made It: Richard Green, director of USC's Lusk Center
Los Angeles Times
By Alejandro Lazo
The gig: Richard Green, 52, is the director of USC's Lusk Center for Real Estate, a research and academic program based at the university's Marshall School of Business and the school of policy, planning and development. Green, who is also a professor, is widely quoted on housing issues in the national media, and his book "A Primer on U.S. Housing Markets and Housing Policy," with Stephen Malpezzi, is used at universities throughout the country.
A political upbringing: When he was growing up in Wisconsin, "my parents were really big on the social consciousness stuff. When I was a kid, we had campaigners for the '68 McCarthy campaign in our basement.... These were volunteers from all over the place who would come to Wisconsin to campaign for [Eugene] McCarthy against LBJ, so they would sleep over and my mother would feed them gobs and gobs of spaghetti."