CURA is proud to announce that our director Dr. Edward Goetz is one of the recipients of the 2026 Contribution to the Field of Urban Affairs from the Urban Affairs Association (UAA). The recogniation is for his research that focuses on issues of race and poverty and how they affect housing.
The UAA is an international professional organization for 1000+ urban scholars, researchers, policy analysts, and public service providers and is dedicated to creating interdisciplinary spaces for engaging in intellectual and practical discussions about urban life. Through theoretical, empirical, and action-oriented research, USS fosters diverse activities to understand and shape a more just and equitable urban world.
The formal presentation of this award will be made at the upcoming International Conference in Urban Affairs in Chicago, Illinois on April 29, 2026. The theme of this year's conference is No Little Plans: Realizing Urban Futures in Times of Crisis. The conference will convene 1100+ participants from 55 countries and representing 20+ field of study.
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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