Rashad Williams at UAA
CURA Researcher Rashad Williams presenting on mobile
home owners and displacement at UAA

CURA researchers and research projects were well represented at the recent Urban Affairs Association (UAA) conference in Los Angeles, April 24-27, 2019. In addition to the sessions below, Dr. Brittany Lewis was asked to participate on an activist scholarship panel by Professor Lisa Bates from Portland State University.

Sessions presented by CURA researchers:

  • Gentrification and concentrated poverty by Professor Edward G Goetz, Anthony Damiano, Dr. Brittany Lewis, and Molly Calhoun
  • Typologies of Fear in the Gentrifying City: Studying the politics of fear in Minneapolis and St. Paul by Molly Calhoun, Dr. Britany Lewis, Professor Edward G Goetz, and Anthony Damiano
  • Neighborhood effects of new housing supply in Minneapolis by Anthony Damiano
  • Residential segregation of low to moderate income households in Beijing: An empirical study of private sector rental housing by Yi Wang
  • Saving the Park: Mobile home owners against displacement by Rashad Williams and Professor Edward G Goetz 
  • Black men are locked up, Black women are locked out: An in-depth mixed methodological study of evictions in North Minneapolis by Dr. Brittany Lewis, Molly Calhoun, Professor Edward G Goetz, and Anthony Damiano