People in Transit-Rich Neighborhoods Don’t Spend Less on Transportation
The Atlantic’s “City Lab” quoted Lisa Schweitzer of the USC Price School about the practicali
How do we know what works?
by Lisa K. Bates When thinking about assessing the impact of Humboldt Gardens’ GOALS program, which is the project‘s version of HUD‘s Family Self-Sufficiency Program (FSS), it is useful to know the program‘s context. The concept of FSS is straightforward — parents participate in programming designed to promote employment and Read more…
Access to Opportunity, the conceptual policy framework
by Dr. Raphael Bostic, President & Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Professor, University of Southern California, Price School of Public Policy and Sheryl Whitney, Partner, Whitney Jennings In our last post, which also happened to be our first post, we introduced the Access to Opportunity project, including the Read more…
HUD at 50
On January 12th in Washington DC, HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research commemorated HUD’s 50 years. Raphael Bostic, the Judith and John Bedrosian Chair in Governance and the Public Enterprise at the Sol Price School of Public Policy, co-authored HUD at 50: Creating Pathways to Opportunity (see Chapter 3) and was a discussant on the panel Read more…
Rez Life
In Rez Life David Treuer spirals in and out of personal story, interviews, and historical narrative to paint a full picture of life as an Ojibwe from Leech Lake Reservation. An important book about the power of individual and collective action, the power of place, and how history lives on in our (collective) lives today.
With N.J. in desperate need of affordable housing aid, federal funding faces ax
Raphael Bostic, Director of the Bedrosian Center and Interim Director of the Lusk Center for Real Estate, was cited in an opinion piece by Holly Leicht on the website NJ.com. Leicht is the regional administrator covering New York and New Jersey for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. Leicht’s Read more…
Director Raphael Bostic Interviewed on New Fair Housing Rule
by Justine Dodgen Bedrosian Center Director Raphael Bostic recently spoke with DS News to discuss HUD’s new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Rule, which was announced in early July. AFFH intends to help communities that receive HUD funding meet long-standing fair housing obligations. During the interview, Bostic discussed what he hopes AFFH will help accomplish: My Read more…
HUD chief on new housing rules: ‘ZIP code should never determine a child’s future’
In an article about HUD’s new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, which reaffirms the tenets of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, Bedrosian Center Director Raphael Bostic is optimistic that community planning process can be inclusive and honest about issues of residential segregation and access to resources. “Americans really do care about Read more…
Vincent Reina at APPAM
Vincent Reina will be presenting a paper at the APPAM Fall Research Conference: Are They Protected? a National Analysis of What Happens to Subsidized Tenants When an Owner Opts out Abstract: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) financed roughly 850,000 units of housing through the project-based Section 8 program. Read more…
Policy Design and Implementation
On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 our Director Raphael Bostic gave his perspective on his time in Obama’s Washington for the Urban Growth Seminar Series. In this seminar, Bostic shared some lessons learned from the policy making space. One of the things he is most proud of is the housing scorecard, Read more…
Policy Design and Implementation: A Perspective from Obama’s Washington
Director of the Bedrosian Center on Governance, Raphael Bostic, will speak on October 15th for the USC Urban Growth Seminar Series. USC Urban Growth Seminar Series October 15, 2013 12:15pm to 1:30pm University Park Campus Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) Room 101 In this seminar, Dr. Bostic will reflect on Read more…