Tuesday, November 17th, 2015
Dr. Gloria Bonilla Santiago Building, Cooper and Broadway, 12^th floor 

Agenda

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8:30am – 9am 

• Registration and breakfast             
• Opening Remarks:
  Phoebe Haddon, Chancellor, Rutgers University-Camden
  Paul Jargowsky, Director, Center for Urban Research and Education

9am – 10:30am

• Panel 1: Neighborhoods and Social Mobility
  Chair: Paul Jargowsky
  Discussants: Paul Jargowsky, Michael Hayes
  
  Amy E. Schwartz, Keren M. Horn, Ingrid G. Ellen, & Sarah A. Cordes: “Do housing vouchers improve academic performance? Evidence from New York City”
  Presenter: Sarah A. Cordes
  
  Peter Rich: “White parental flight and avoidance: Neighborhood choices in the era of school district desegregation”
  
  Stuart Andreason: “How housing regulation and segregation change the labor market benefits associated with increased educational attainment”
  
  Edward G Goetz: “Choice and burden: Looking for fair housing’s greatest possible impact”

10:45am – 12:15pm

• Panel 2: Affordable Housing and Neighborhood Composition    
  Chair:  Prentiss Dantzler
  Discussants:  Greg Squires, Prentiss Dantzler
  
  Cody Price: “Why affordable home design matters”
  
  Lei Ding, Jackelyn Hwang & Eileen Divringi: “Gentrification and residential mobility in Philadelphia”
  Presenter: Jackelyn Hwang  
  
  Frederica D. Kramer: “Eating the seed corn: Loss of social diversity in urban revitalization and potential of social impact assessment to fix it”
  
  Willow Lung-Amam, Katrin Anacker & Nick Finio: “Worlds away in suburbia: The changing geography of concentrated poverty in the Washington, DC metro”
  Presenter: Willow Lung-Amam

12:15pm – 1:45pm

• Lunch Roundtable on Metropolitan Equity 
  David Troutt (Rutgers University, Newark)
  Alex Schwartz (The New School)
  Edward G. Goetz (University of Minnesota)
  Moderator: Paul Jargowsky

2pm – 3:30pm      

• Panel 3: New Directions in Housing Policy
  Chair:  Chris Wheeler
  Discussants:  Melanie Bowers, Chris Wheeler
  
  Mai Thi Nguyen, Michael Webb, William Rohe & Kristin Frescoln: “Can housing vouchers and supportive services move families out of poverty? Lessons learned from a 5-year evaluation of HOPE VI in Charlotte, North Carolina”
  Presenter: Mai Thi Nguyen
  
  Jessica Simes: “Neighborhood attainment after prison”  
  
  Ingrid G Ellen, Keren M. Horn & Katherine M. O’Regan: “Using tax policy to reduce poverty concentration: Evidence from the low income housing tax credit”
  Presenter: Keren M. Horn
  
  Nicolas Vergara: “Ultra liberalized land market, social housing, and urban segregation. Lessons from the Chilean recent experience”

3:45pm – 4pm

• Concluding thoughts/emerging themes:
  Paul Jargowsky                               
• Introduction of Keynote Speaker:
  Natasha Fletcher, Associate Director Center for Urban Research and Education

4:15pm – 5pm

• Keynote Address:  
  Professor Mark Stephens, MA, MSc, PhD, FAcSS, FRSA
  Institute for Social Policy, Housing, Environment and Real Estate, School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.

5pm-6pm

• Reception                                                                                                             

_{This symposium would not have been possible without the generous support of: The Centers for Global Advancement and International Affairs (GAIA) and the Edward J. Bloustein School for Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University-New Brunswick; The Center for Law in Metropolitan Equity (CLIME) and The Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies at Rutgers University-Newark; The Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice, the Office of the Dean of Arts & Sciences, and the Office of the Chancellor at Rutgers University-Camden; The Department of Community Development Studies and Education at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.}