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.}

Friday, October 30, 2015 – 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Executive Private Dining Room,  Campus Center
Lunch will be served

“Restoring the historic relationship between the labor movement and civil rights in the fight against segregation and inequality”

Paul Scully, Building One America

Building One America’s purpose is to fight for and promote a fully inclusive society that provides equal access to middle class opportunity and security for all Americans regardless of race, class, or ethnicity.

In a society where rising economic inequality and persistent racial segregation allow a small number of privileged individuals and exclusive communities to horde the re
sources of our regions and our national economy, BOA fights for a fair share and a fair chance for all American families, workers, and their communities.

BOA’s strategy is to build non-partisan, multi-racial grassroots power at a regional, state, and national level among leaders of people-based institutions, including religious congregations, labor unions, universities, schools, and local government t
o advance infrastructure investment, tax reform, fair housing, and fair school funding to end economic and social isolation, reduce disparities in wealth and income, expand middle class opportunity and promote jobs and sustainable economic growth.

By bringing together these groups and fighting for this agenda, BOA seeks to restore and rebuild the powerful and historic alliance between organized labor and the civil rights movement to fight for both racial justice and middle class opportunity for all Americans.

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