“For which his employers fired him. “
They fired him for being right?
As I understand it, the real estate industry provides funding to UCLA for the Anderson Forecast. No industry funding, no Anderson Forecast. My feeling is that while the industry likes having the Anderson Forecast issue blue sky predictions while the industry is on an up trend, it would prefer not to have the public react to predictions of multi-year declines while the industry is on a down trend. After all, markets are based in part on sentiment, and there's a lot of raw land and in-process inventory (i.e. finished and unfinished homes) riding on that sentiment.