SESSION #5: Making the Case for Affordable Housing
Participants learn about the mechanics of preparing a case study on how to research and prepare a case study which can aid in advocating for including housing as a component of an anchor institution strategy.
Speaker for session #5: Meagan Ehlenz, PhD. Assistant Professor Arizona State University. Dr. Ehlenz’ s research interests include urban revitalization, gentrification, and community development, with an emphasis on the roles and impacts of anchor institutions in urban settings.
Key Takeaways of session #5:
- Case studies answer questions about why and how something happened, provides context and/or nuance to a generalized observation, and offers a mean of examining multiple perspectives and/or facets of a phenomenon
- Case study types:
- Exploratory
- Descriptive
- Explanatory
- Single case studies (representative) vs. multiple case studies (comparative)
- The goal with case study work is triangulation: multiple data sources that tell the same story from multiple data sources