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
Edward Goetz
Edward G. Goetz is director of CURA and a faculty member at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs.
Ed specializes in housing and local community development planning and policy. His research focuses on issues of race and poverty and how they affect housing policy planning and development. Before coming to the University of Minnesota in 1988, he worked at the mayor's Office of Housing and Economic Development in San Francisco and for several nonprofit community developers in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He has served on the board of directors of nonprofit housing agencies in the Twin Cities, and on several regional commissions related to affordable housing and development.
He is the author of The One-Way Street of Integration: Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities (Cornell University Press, 2018), New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy (Cornell University Press, 2013), Clearing the Way: Deconcentrating the Poor in Urban America (2003, Urban Institute Press), Shelter Burden: Local Politics and Progressive Housing Policy (1993, Temple University Press), and co-editor of The New Localism: Comparative Urban Politics in a Global Era (1993, Sage Publications).
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