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Public Affairs Discussion Group
"Mixed
Income Development as an
Approach to Addressing Urban Policy"
April 20, 2007
Crawford Hall, Room 9 - The Inamori Center
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
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Mark
L. Joseph, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor Mandel School
of Applied Social Sciences Case Western Reserve
University
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Dear Colleagues:
Our next-to-last Friday Lunch discussion of Spring
2007 features one of the big questions about urban
renewal policy.
For years, the problems of the poor were addressed
with programs for the poor. So, for example, housing
programs emphasized providing units for the people
who needed help most. Need was the primary criterion
for priority to receive housing subsidies.
This seems eminently sensible. Unfortunately, the
result was to create housing projects in which the
residents were disproportionately victims (or, in
some cases, perpetrators) of social pathologies that
made managing the projects difficult and the odds
that people who grew up in the projects would have a
healthy start to their lives quite low. For about 15
years, therefore, analysts and advocates have sought
to alter the demographics of public housing,
creating more of a socioeconomic mix within the
communities.
How is that working? Our Mandel School of Applied
Social Sciences has a long history of involvement in
these issues, with the late Art Naparstek being a
nationally-known leader in housing policy. Mark
Joseph joined MSASS this past Summer after
completing his dissertation on this policy area, at
the University of Chicago. He’ll lead our discussion
this Friday. As usual, hot beverages from the SAGES
café are kindly provided by the Office of University
Communications, and cookies by generous souls.
This semester’s Friday lunches
conclude on April 27 as Christine Cano, Associate
Professor of French, and Vincent E. McHale, the
Marcus A. Hanna Professor of Political Science,
discuss the French elections.
Best regards,
Joe White
More About Our
Guests
Mark L. Joseph is graduate of the
University of Chicago, and joined the Mandel School
of Applied Social Sciences faculty as an Assistant
Professor on July 1, 2006. Mark L. Joseph provides
Mandel students with even greater opportunities for
study in community development, one of the most
important areas of study in the field of social
work.
Mark L. Joseph earned his undergraduate degree from
Harvard University, was a visiting scholar at Oxford
University, and earned his PhD from the University
of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy Studies.
Dr. Joseph has a commitment to social justice and
experience in community development in the context
of social problems and the role of community in the
lives of individuals and families.
Spring Semester
Schedule
Beginning on February 2, the Friday Lunch will
move back to Crawford Hall, in ROOM 9. Room 9 is within
the Inamori Center, on the basement level of Crawford.
It is very kind of Bill Deal, Director of the Inamori
Center, to make this room available on a regular basis.
Thank you, Bill!
Room 9 seats 35, with a central table and also chairs
along the wall. It should be a better setup than
Guilford. If we expect a large crowd, we may be able to
open a partition and join up with Room 11.
There will, however, be a class in the room until 12:20.
Therefore it will not be possible to get there much
before the lunch begins. On the other hand, people who
are a bit early should be able to hang out in the
Tomlinson food court. I believe the underground passage
from Tomlinson to Crawford will be restored when
construction is finished.
Coffee will be provided from the SAGES Cafe'. Which
should mean very good coffee.
The tentative schedule of speakers, so far:
January 26: Phil (Perkins Professor of
Physics-Case Western Reserve University) and Sarah
Taylor, Wind Power and All of It's Aspects -
Environmental, Energy, Economic, Aesthetic, and
Maybe More.
February 2: Ken Grundy, Marcus Hanna Professor
Emeritus of Political Science, on subject to be
determined
February 9: Paul Schroeder, Visiting Lecturer in
Political Science and from Families of the Fallen for
Change, on what to do in Iraq
February 16: Mark Turner, Professor of Cognitive
Science, on cognition and politics
February 23: Mel Goldstein, Professor of
Anthropology, on why the Chinese are winning in Tibet
March 2: Susan Helper, Professor of Economics, on
strategies for American workers within the current
global competition.
March 9: Baiju Shah, President, Bioenterprise
Corporation, on the new economic prospects in Cleveland.
March 16: Break
March 23: Mike Aronoff of Cuyahoga County on the
evaluation of sexual predators for the courts―are they
really dangerous, and can we predict if they will reoffend?
March 30: Lewis R. Katz,
John C. Hutchins Professor; Director of the Master
of Laws in U.S. and Global Legal Studies program at Case
Western Reserve University,
on the Ups and Downs of Running for
Congress.
April 6:
Horst von Recum, Assistant Professor of Biomedical
Engineering; Insoo Hyun, Assistant Professor of
Bioethics; and Greg Eastwood, Interim President of Case
Western Reserve University on Stem Cell Research.
April 13: Marixa Lasso, Assistant Professor of
History: Drugs, War, and Coffee in Colombia
April 20: Mark Joseph, Assistant Professor,
Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences: Mixed-Income
Development as an Approach to Addressing Urban Poverty
April 27: Christine Cano, Associate Professor of
French, on the French elections (this date falls between
the first round and the runoff election)
Parking: Normally 6 parking spaces are reserved in
the CWRU visitors lot off of Euclid Avenue for the
Friday Public Affairs Discussion Group lunches.
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