This session engages broadly on the role of public and private sectors in housing low-income citizens, reviewing the history of housing up through modern-day applications and techniques.

Speaker

Lance Freeman, University of Pennsylvania
Professor Freeman has joint appointments in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the Weitzman School of Design and in the Department of Sociology in the School of Arts & Sciences. Neighborhoods fascinate Freeman, motivating his research into how they change and evolve over time, the role they play in people’s lives, and how they can be more equitable places. He has published books and articles on gentrification, urban poverty, housing policy, urban sprawl, the relationship between the built environment and public health and residential segregation, including There Goes the Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up (Temple University Press), A Haven, and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black America (Columbia University Press), Planning and Control of Land Development (University of North Carolina Press) with Daniel Mandelker, Carol Necole Brown, Stuart Meck, Dwight H. Merriam, Peter W. Salsich, Jr., and Edward J. Sullivan. Prior to academia, Freeman worked as a professional planner in New York City and as a social science researcher in Washington, DC.

Key takeaways

  • Overview of affordable housing policy in the United States, how it arose, where it is at today, major approaches to affordable housing, and connecting that to the work that is done through anchor institutions

Reading material & resources

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