Tag: affordable housing

September 15 CURE Seminar Series with Sarah DeGiorgis

Fall 2022 Cure Seminar Series - Upcoming seminars

Housing Policies and Home:  Tenant Experiences in Public Housing

Thursday, September 15
12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Campus Center, West Conference Room (also live-streamed on Zoom)
Lunch will be served
Open to the public

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Abstract:

How do public housing authorities and public housing residents differ in their views of key aspects of public housing policy such as the concept of home?  Public housing residents are bound by public housing policies but we know very little about the experiences of the residents themselves.  Sarah DeGiorgis became interested in this topic while working as the Program Manager for the Choice Neighborhoods Planning and Implementation Grants at the Housing Authority of the City of Camden.  Her interviews with residents will provide important insight into understanding how public housing policies directly affect residents’ lives, centered on the concept of home.

About the speaker:

Sarah DeGiorgis is a Ph.D. candidate in Public Affairs at Rutgers University. She holds a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers and a bachelor of arts in English from Oberlin College.  Sarah’s research interests include affordable and public housing, community erasure, the financialization of housing, and participatory mapping/GIS.

 

CURE virtual roundtable: Community-based approaches to creating sustainable affordable housing

“Community-based approaches to creating sustainable affordable housing”

Thursday, January 28th 12:30pm – 1:30pm via Zoom.

This virtual roundtable we discussed housing cooperatives, community land trusts, and shared equity housing models as viable alternative approaches to creating sustainable affordable housing and building community wealth. Non-market strategies have proliferated over recent years as many lower-income communities, especially in “hot” real estate markets like NYC, experience rising housing cost, fewer affordable housing options, and long-term housing insecurity. The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a brighter light on the chronic and dire state of housing insecurity in the US as millions of lower-income households are facing evictions and potential homelessness. In this virtual roundtable, our panelists shared their insights on the processes of creating affordable housing collectives, and discussed the role of public policy, community organizing, and housing advocacy in the quest for fair housing.

Panelists:

  • Edward Garcia is lead community organizer and involved with community development at the Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition and member of the Northwest Bronx Community Land Trust.
  • Judy Meima works with tenant groups and cooperatives as an independent consultant. She previously worked at the D.C. nonprofit Mi Casa Inc. and served as the manager of the organization’s TOPA program. In a recently published article in Shelterforce, she shares lessons from 20 years of enabling tenants to buy their buildings.
  • Ruoniu (Vince) Wang is research manager at Grounded Solutions where he focuses on evaluating affordable housing policies and programs, geography of inequality, and residential mobility. He has recently co-authored a report with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy that presents the most comprehensive study of shared equity housing programs conducted to date.
  • Stephanie Rivera, Esq. is a member of the nascent East New York Community Land Trust Initiative

Moderator:

  • Natasha O. Fletcher, PhD, Assoc. Director of CURE