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Theme: Another Housing System is Possible: Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives in Theory and in Practice
Speakers:
Joshua Newton – Postdoctoral Scholar at the UCSD Homelessness Hub
Grant Ruroede – Planner at the City of San Diego, presenting as a housing policy advocate, not on behalf of the City of San Diego Planning Department
Kim Coontz – Director of the California Center for Cooperative Development,
…on the history, practice, and value of the Housing Cooperative model for social mobility, community wealth building, and meeting housing needs.
Date: March 3rd, 2025
Theme: Assessing the Potential of Senate Bill 4 for Affordable Housing Development in San Diego County
Speaker: Kate Zegans – UC San Diego Center for Housing Policy and Design, on the results of a GIS analysis of the affordable housing potential of land owned by faith based organizations and nonprofit colleges.
Date: November 21st, 2024
Theme: Casa y Comunidad: Latino/a/x Housing in Oregon (COVID 19 and Intergenerational Housing)
Speaker: Dr. John Arroyo – UC San Diego Department of Urban Studies and Planning, on Casa y Comunidad, an oral history-based limited documentary series about housing access issues affecting the Latino/a/x community in Oregon.
Date: May 13th, 2024
Theme: Gender Inequality and Female Homeownership: An Experience in Tijuana, Mexico
Speakers:
Dr. Dinorah González – El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, A.C
and Dr. Paloma Giottonini – UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, on barriers and opportunities for increased female homeownership in Tijuana.
Date: March 11th, 2024
Theme: Digital Twins of Tijuana and San Diego
Speakers:
Nora Marquez and Luis García– Tijuana Metropolitan Institute of Municipal Planning, on the process and progress towards their digital twin of Tijuana, and the implications of this technology for modelling formal and informal housing and environmental risk.
Peter van Oorschot and Teddy Martinez – TNO San Diego EDC, on the creation and application of TNO’s pilot of their “Urban Strategy” Digital Twin of San Diego for research, land use planning, and education.
Date: March 11th, 2024
Theme: Modelling the Housing System: Implications for Public Health
Speaker: Dr. Eliah Aronoff-Spencer – Director of Health Technology and System Design at the UC San Diego Center for Health Design, on the role housing plays in his work modelling infectious disease communication, and the process of modelling the housing system more broadly.
Date: February 12th, 2024
Theme: Community-Based Interventions
Speakers:
Ellen Nash – Chair of the Leon L. Williams San Diego County Human Relations Commission, and the Black American Political Association of California, on outreach practices for Black people experiencing homelessness.
Erik Hekler – Director of the Center for Wireless & Population Health Systems; Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine & Public Health, on the role of modelling housing in the Streetwyze project, a data driven tool using mapping and sms data for placemaking and public health initiatives.
Date: January 8th, 2024