Collective Study Hour: Evidence from the HOPE VI Program
Join us for a series of small group conversations around a new report that examines the long-term impacts of the HOPE VI housing program
Raj Chetty in Conversation
On Economic Mobility and Housing Justice
Photos courtesy of David Schalliol and Opportunity Insights.
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Student Center East, University of Illinois Chicago, 750 S. Halsted Street, Chicago, 60607
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Join us for a conversation with Dr. Raj Chetty.
Earlier this year, economist Raj Chetty and Opportunity Insights published a consequential report examining the long-term impact of replacing large public housing developments with mixed-income communities, a federal program known as HOPE VI. One of the largest and most ambitious efforts to break up urban concentrations of poverty in U.S. history, HOPE VI transformed communities. With over $17 billion in public and private investments made across decades, the program—not without controversy—demolished or rehabilitated over 250 public housing projects, and developed new, mixed-income neighborhoods across the country.
Presented by the National Public Housing Museum in collaboration with the Chicago Community Trust and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chetty’s talk will share data and insights from his latest findings on how revitalized neighborhoods impact children’s long-term trajectory. Chetty will be joined in conversation with Marisa Novara, Vice President of Community Impact at The Chicago Community Trust and former Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Housing, and Salin Geevarghese, President of SGG Insight and former HUD Deputy Assistant Secretary, for a timely conversation about the pitfalls and possibilities of mixed income communities, the redress of racial and economic segregation and the future of housing justice.
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About the speakers
Raj Chetty is the William A. Ackman Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the Director of Opportunity Insights, which uses big data to study the science of economic opportunity and understand how we can give children from all backgrounds better chances of succeeding. Chetty’s work has been widely cited in academia, media outlets, and policy discussions in the United States and beyond.
Chetty received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2003 and is one of the youngest tenured professors in Harvard’s history. He has received numerous awards for his research, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the John Bates Clark medal, given to the economist under 40 whose work is judged to have made the most significant contribution to the field, and Harvard’s George Ledlie prize, awarded for research that made the most valuable contribution to science, or in any way for the benefit of mankind.
Marisa Novara is Vice President of Community Impact at The Chicago Community Trust and former Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Housing.
Salin Geevarghese is President & CEO of the impact consultancy SGG Insight, Senior Fellow at NP3: Nurturing People.Power.Place (OH), Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Social Policy (DC), and former Deputy Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Obama Administration.
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This event is presented as part of the National Public Housing Museum’s Transformation event series, an ongoing program series that explores the Plan for Transformation, its impact on the civic life of Chicago, and related policies that are shaping the future of public housing
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