Affiliated CURE scholar Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn
is currently attending the Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organisation’s (EHRO) congress on the advances in happiness economics held at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Hilary Silver is Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies and Professor of Public Policy at Brown University, and Editor of the journal, City & Community. Her research focuses on urban poverty, social exclusion, and discrimination, and analyzes social, employment, and housing policies in the US and Europe. She is currently editing a book, Comparing Cities (Routledge), on internationally comparative urban studies. Her 2009 film, Southside: The Fall and Rise of an Inner-City Neighborhood, will be followed by Last Resorts, currently in production, on long-term trajectories of the chronically homeless. Silver is also a Commissioner of the Providence Housing Authority. Her talk is based on “Mixing Policies: Expectations and Achievements” in Cityscape (2013) and “Obama’s Urban Policy” in City & Community (2010).
Dr. Jargowsky accepted the invitation to serve a 3-year term on the editorial board of the prestigious peer-reviewed academic journal Housing Policy Debate. The journal provides a venue for original research relating to U.S. housing policy. Subjects include affordable housing policy, fair housing policy, land use regulations influencing housing affordability, metropolitan development trends, and linkages among housing policy and energy, environmental, and transportation policy.
Housing Policy Debate is published quarterly. Most issues feature a Forum section and an Articles section. The Forum, which highlights a current debate, features a central article and responding comments that represent a range of perspectives. All articles in the Forum and Articles sections undergo a double-blind peer review process. On a recurring basis, Housing Policy Debate also features an Outlook section where the editors, occasionally with expert guest writers, comment on emerging areas of housing and metropolitan research or current events.
Returning to Tacony, his old neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia, Spencer Clayton has quickly grown to relish his new role. As an intern for Councilman Bobby Henon, who represents the Sixth District, he routinely provides citizens – including longtime neighbors and friends – with the latest news and information regarding government-related programs and services. That is, when he isn’t listening to their questions or concerns.
“Sometimes it’s just helping them with the little things, such as filling out forms,” says Clayton, a Rutgers–Camden Ph.D. student in public affairs. “But more than that, I can help make sure that the residents’ voices are being heard. It has always been my plan to come back to this neighborhood and to help make a difference.” Link to full article
“The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual’s dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.”
-Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965