How can city governments make neighborhoods healthier and safer? Researchers affiliated with the Bloomberg Center for Cities and expert practitioners from US cities will discuss cutting edge practice at the intersection of community development, code enforcement, and social services.
Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath exposed stark socioeconomic inequities in greater New Orleans. It also spurred historic public spending for post-disaster aid and protective infrastructure. But little is known about whether this spending improved the ability of households to withstand and recover from future natural disasters.
In this talk, Meyer Fellow and PhD candidate Valentine Gilbert will discuss research he conducted with Robert French that asks whether continued suburban expansion can alleviate rising housing costs in urban areas, or whether urban centers will have to grow denser to become more affordable.
Magda Maaoui, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center, will report on research she is doing with Whitney Airgood-Obrycki and Sophia Wedeen to examine whether the uneven geography of rental housing bolsters patterns of socioeconomic and racial segregation in the nation’s largest metro areas.
For over three decades, Dr. Margot Kushel has both cared for people who experience homelessness and studied the causes, consequences, and solutions to homelessness particularly in California, which is home to 30 percent of the people experiencing homelessness in the US. Kushel, who recently led the largest representative study of homelessness in the United States since the mid-1990s, will discuss insights that have emerged from her work as a physician and researcher.
Community Land Trusts (CLTs), Shared Equity Homeownership programs, and other innovative approaches to affordable housing that grew out of the Civil Rights movement can help sustain changing communities and allow them to thrive for generations to come. In this talk, Tony Pickett, CEO of Grounded Solutions Network, will draw on efforts from across the United States.
Across the country, organizations centered around arts, led by resident African American artists, have reinforced communities, strengthened social bonds, and preserved culture in historically African-American neighborhoods.
The 2023 Annual Homeless Assessment Report found that 650,000 people were experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2023, a 12 percent increase from 2022. Jeff Olivet, from the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, will discuss the report, which provides a snapshot of the number of individuals in shelters, temporary housing, and in unsheltered settings.
