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9:15am CDT

TH1.15 Mixed Income Housing and Neighborhood Issues Madero Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Robert Chaskin, The University of Chicago • James Hanlon • JoDee Keller, Pacific Lutheran University • Lawrence J. Vale • Mark L. Joseph • Janice Laakso • Shomon Shamsuddin • Florian Sichling • Christine A. Stevens • Cathy Tashiro • James Hanlon TH1.16 Planning, Revitalization, and Displacement Carranza Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Tara Bengle • Karl Besel • Renia Ehrenfeucht • Rachel Brahinsky, University of San Francisco • Christopher Prather • Viviana Andreescu • Muthusami Kumaran • Barrett Lee • Barrett Lee TH1.17 The City After Abandonment Villa Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Kimberley Kinder, University of Michigan • Margaret Dewar, University of Michigan • Emily Rosenman • Jason Hackworth, University of Toronto • Matthew D. Weber • Oana Druta • Eric Seymour • Jason Hackworth, University of Toronto

10:55am CDT

TH2.17 Community Land Trusts: Challenging Concepts of Propertied Citizenship Carranza Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Hillary Caldwell • Deshonay Dozier • Jeffrey Lowe • Susan Saegert • Deirdre Oakley, Georgia State University • Susan Saegert TH2.14 Suburban Issues for the 21st Century Zapata (Westin 2nd Floor)Whitney Airgood-Obrycki • Lineo Devecchi • Ryan Allen, University of Minnesota • Katrin Anacker, George Mason University • Bernadette Hanlon • Ryan Allen, University of Minnesota TH2.15 Housing Values, Foreclosure, and Neighborhood Change Madero Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Melissa Currie • Andrew T. Carswell, University of Georgia • Christopher Goodman • Deborah Carroll • Ron Malega • Martin Seay • Andrew T. Carswell, University of Georgia TH2.16 Housing Issues from Cities Around the World Villa Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Khaled Alawadi • Yiping Fang • Cristiana Griz • Sarah Dooling • Yiping Fang

1:30pm CDT

TH3.16 Place-Based Philanthropy and Community Development – Challenges, Innovations, and Lessons from the Field Villa Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Mirle Rabinowitz Bussell • Joe Horiye • Maria Martinez-Cosio • Maria Martinez-Cosio TH3.19 Detroit, A City in Crisis: Recent Research in the Journal of Urban Affairs (JUA) Madero Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Peter Eisinger • George Galster • Tim Hodge • Erica Raleigh • Laura Reese, Michigan State University TH3.14 Affordable Housing Preservation and Gentrification Zapata (Westin 2nd Floor)Kathryn Howell • Jackelyn Hwang • Jacob Rugh • Karen Gibson, Portland State University • Maxine Fitzpatrick • Derek Hyra • Kathryn Howell TH3.15 Public Housing and the Community Carranza Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Prentiss Dantzler • Kirstin Frescoln • Amy Khare • Beverly McLean • Tho Tran, Texas A&M University • Mary K. Donegan • Mai Nguyen • William M. Rohe • Beverly McLean

3:10pm CDT

TH4.17 Place-based Initiatives of the Obama Administration: Emerging Findings about Choice and Promise Neighborhoods Madero Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Megan Gallagher • Sarah Gillespie • Laura McKieran • Molly Scott • Peter Tatian • Amy Khare • Rolf Pendall TH4.15 Social Cohesion, Capital, and Tenure in Low Income Neighborhoods Villa Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Daniel Brisson • Thomas Howarth • Nancy Kinney • Sara Martucci • Zhilin Liu, Tsinghua University • Lu LIAO • Elizabeth Shockey • Janni Sorensen • Laurie Walker • Sara Martucci TH4.16 Using Community Development to Leverage Systems Change: Early Lessons from The Integration Initiative Carranza Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Ziona Austrian • Scott Hebert • Kathryn Hexter • Avis Vidal, Wayne State University • Devon Winey • Serineh Baboomian • Beth Siegel • Avis Vidal, Wayne State University

7:00am CDT

FRI-BRT Creating Livable Communities: Academic Perspectives Navarro Ballroom (Westin 2nd Floor)Elise Bright • Jane Brooks • Roger Caves • Fritz Wagner

9:15am CDT

FR1.14 Affordable Housing and Homeownership Zapata (Westin 2nd Floor)Joshua Ambrosius • Meagan Ehlenz • Kristen Hackett • Jeffrey Lowe • Deshonay Dozier • W. Dennis Keating • John Hans Gilderbloom, University of Louisville • Mariya Marinova • Wesley Meares • Susan Saegert • William Steele • Jeffrey Lowe FR1.15 Planning, Revitalization, and Displacement II Villa Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Andre Ortega, University of the Philippines • Peter Rosenblatt • Shomon Shamsuddin • Steven Sacco • Lawrence J. Vale • Peter Rosenblatt FR1.16 The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program at 40 Carranza Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Leah Brooks • Kevin Gotham • Derek Hyra FR1.17 Housing Instability: Causes and Consequences Madero Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Kim Skobba, University of Georgia • Rachel Garshick Kleit • Andrew J. Greenlee, Ph.D. • Corianne Payton Scally • Debra Brucker • Rachel Garshick Kleit • Edward Goetz, University of Minnesota • Rachel Garshick Kleit

10:55am CDT

FR2.15 Urban Blight, Foreclosures, and Low Income Households Madero Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Mark Lindblad • Megan K. Peppel • Deirdre Pfeiffer • Elora Raymond • Jesseca Short • Simon A. Andrew • Alexandra F. Browning • Yutuan Gao • Joanna Lucio, Arizona State University • Deirdre Pfeiffer FR2.16 Global Issues of Housing, Residential Segregation, and Development Carranza Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Ayse Pamuk • Sarah Tynen • Ayoung Woo • Xuefan Zhang • Kenneth Joh • Joanna Lucio, Arizona State University • Ayse Pamuk FR2.17 The Contested Value of Place: Land, Property, and Community Development Villa Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Ryan M. Good • Derek Hyra • Joseph Pierce • Lee Polonsky • Benjamin F Teresa • Kathe Newman, Rutgers University • Ryan M. Good

2:05pm CDT

FR3.04 Ethnicity and Neighborhood Economics I Carranza Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Julia Elmer • C. Aujean Lee • R. Varisa Patraporn • Julia Elmer FR3.12 Perceiving and Experienceing Risk in Urban Neighborhoods Zapata (Westin 2nd Floor)Erin Krcatovich • Lyke Thompson • Yilan Xu • Laura Reese, Michigan State University • Lyke Thompson FR3.13 Neighborhood Effects and Housing (In)Stability Villa Room (Westin 2nd Floor)David Bartelt • Jesus J. Lara • Jane Rongerude • Charisma S. Acey • Q. Victoria Chen • Karin Eyrich-Garg • Brian Lockwood • David Bartelt FR3.14 Resistance to Public Housing Transformation Madero Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Janet Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago • James Fraser • Amy Howard • Ken Reardon • Deirdre Oakley, Georgia State University • Thad Williamson • Edward Goetz, University of Minnesota

3:30pm CDT

FR-PS12 [POSTER] Analyzing the Use of Affordable Housing Development as a Neighbourhood Revitalization Tool in Shrinking Cities Navarro Ballroom (Westin 2nd Floor)Julie Mah, University of Toronto FR-PS15 [POSTER] Early Effects of Neighborhood Stabilization in Los Angeles Navarro Ballroom (Westin 2nd Floor)Kenya Covington • Geoffrey West

4:05pm CDT

FR4.14 Ethnicity and Neighborhood Economic Development Carranza Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Sangmin Kim • Elizabeth Korver-Glenn • Ivis García Zambrana, PhD • Elizabeth Korver-Glenn FR4.15 The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program at 40 (Panel II) Madero Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Laurence Pearl • Karen Beck Pooley • Brett Theodos • Keith Wiley • George Galster FR4.16 Living in the Boundaries. A Comparative View of Livability Conditions in the Mexico City Periphery. Villa Room (Westin 2nd Floor)María Cristina Bayón • María Teresa Esquivel • Angela Giglia, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana • Vicente Moctezuma • Landy Sánchez • Clara Salazar • Ann Varley

9:00am CDT

SA1.09 Regional and Local Solutions to Affordable Housing Carranza Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Xiang Cai • Spencer T. Clayton • Megan Hatch • Darrel Ramsey-Musolf • Anaid Yerena • Karl Ho • Darrel Ramsey-Musolf SA1.10 Low Income Housing Policies, Housing Choice Vouchers, and Economic Opportunity Madero Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Shakil Kashem • Han (John) Park • Alex Schwartz,The New School • Rebecca Walter • Serge Atherwood • Auntaria Brown-Davis • Yanmei Li • Rachel Meltzer • Bev Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Alex Schwartz,The New School SA1.11 Cities, Communities, and an Aging Population Villa Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Andrew Aurand • Fernando Ortiz-Moya, University of Nottingham Ningbo China • Jihei Lee • Rebecca Miles • Andrew Aurand

10:30am CDT

SA2.12 Finance, Regulations, and Neighborhood Governance Madero Room (Westin 2nd Floor)Michael Lens, University of California, Los Angeles • Robert Blair • Ken Steif • Kathe Newman, Rutgers University • Tonya Sanders, Morgan State University • Gary Anderson • Jerome Deichert • Josh Shirk • Ken Steif