Panel 1
Neighborhood Change & Displacement: Research and Analysis from Experts in the Field
10:00 – 11:15 am (panel)
11:15 – 11:45 am (facilitated discussion with audience participation)
This panel will share research on neighborhood change and involuntary displacement and identify current gaps in data. The panel will be asked to examine the key consequences of urban neighborhood change on low- and moderate-income households, define best practice research methodologies, identify policies that promote equitable growth, and suggest data and tools that local and state governments can use to understand and address displacement in cities.
Andrew Haughwout, Senior Vice President and Function Head Microeconomic Studies Function, Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Moderator)
Andy Haughwout is a Senior Vice President and Head of the Microeconomic Studies Department in the Research and Statistics Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is a co-editor of the Liberty Street Economics blog and a coeditor of the Bank's Economic Policy Review. In addition to his duties at the Bank, he is a Penn Institute for Urban Research Scholar and serves on the Advisory Board of the Journal of Regional Science. Prior to joining the New York Fed, Mr. Haughwout served as Assistant Professor and Director of the Urban and Regional Planning program at Princeton University. He holds a BA from Swarthmore College and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
Karen Chapple, Professor of City & Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley
Karen Chapple, Ph.D. is a Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Chapple specializes in housing, economic development, and regional planning. Her recent book is titled Planning Sustainable Cities and Regions: Towards More Equitable Development. In Fall 2015, she launched the Urban Displacement Project, a research portal examining patterns of residential displacement, as well as policy and planning solutions. In 2015, her pioneering work on climate change and tax policy won the UC-wide competition for the Bacon Public Lectureship, which promotes evidence-based public policy. Chapple holds a B.A. in Urban Studies from Columbia University, an M.S.C.R.P from the Pratt Institute, and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley.
Ingrid Gould Ellen, Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, NYU Wagner; Faculty Director, NYU Furman Center
Ingrid Gould Ellen is Director of the Urban Planning Program at NYU Wagner and Faculty Director of the NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. She is author of Sharing America's Neighborhoods: The Prospects for Stable Racial Integration and has written numerous journal articles and book chapters related to housing policy, community development, and school and neighborhood segregation. Professor Ellen has held visiting positions at the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution. She attended Harvard University, where she received a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics, an M.P.P., and a Ph.D. in public policy.
Jackelyn Hwang, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University
Jackelyn Hwangstudies the relationship between neighborhood change and inequality by race and class in U.S. cities. Her current projects focus on gentrification and the recent housing crisis and draw on innovative forms of data, such as street-level imagery from Google Street View, to measure neighborhood and property characteristics. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard University in June 2015. In the fall of 2017, She will join the Sociology Department at Stanford University as an Assistant Professor.
Nancy Mirabal, Associate Professor and Director of the U.S. Latina\o Studies Program, University of Maryland
Nancy Mirabal is Associate Professor and Director of the U.S. Latina/o Studies Program at the University of Maryland. She is a historian who has published widely in the field of Afro-diasporic communities in the United States. She is also interested in the politics of territoriality, gentrification, and spatiality, and has published several pieces examining displacement and gentrification in the Mission District of San Francisco. She is currently working with Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, on a collected volume examining the impact of gentrification and displacement on Latina/os. She holds a B.A. in History from University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. in History from University of Michigan.