POLICY BRIEFINGS

Presentation to Participating Housing Authorities in Moving to Work Demonstration, April 2023.

Plenary speaker, White House, Summit on Evidence for Action, hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, in partnership with the Office of Management and Budget (with Raj Chetty and Andria Lazaga). April 7th, 2022.

Presentation to Participating Housing Authorities in HUD Housing Mobility Demonstration, October 6th, 2021.

Research briefing podcast for Baltimore County Commissioner’s Office on HOME Act Bill, October 25th, 2019.

Research briefing meeting with Secretary Ben Carson, Department of Housing and Urban Development, August 23rd, 2019.

Research presentation “Lessons from Mixed Methods Mobility Research About How Parents and Children Adapt to New Neighborhoods” to Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, March 21st, 2019.

“How Housing Policy Can Make a Difference in Child and  Family Outcomes,” Family Impact Seminar on Housing Policy. Briefing to Oregon State Legislators. September 24-25th, 2018.

“Brokering the Geography of Opportunity: How Landlords Affect Access to Housing and Neighborhood Quality Among HUD Assisted Renters.” Briefing to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. November 18th, 2016.

Briefing on Coming of Age in the Other America to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services. October 12th, 2016.

Briefing on Coming of Age in the Other America to the Interagency Working Group on Youth. Department of Health and Human Services. October 12, 2016.

“What Does Poverty Mean for Children?” Briefing on youth and poverty for Representative Rosa DeLauro (D), Rayburn House, Washington D.C. June 23rd, 2016.

Panel on Baltimore, Education and Integration, at interagency listening session on strategies to close racial and socioeconomic gaps, Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Dept. of Transportation, Dept. of Education, June 8th, 2016.

Testimony on Housing Mobility, Neighborhoods and Families. Connecticut State Legislature Informational Hearing. February 29th, 2016.

Testimony on HB 759 Maryland HOME Act, at the Maryland House of Delegates, February 23rd, 2016

“Regional Housing Mobility Programs: Practitioner Convening.” Department of Housing and Urban Development, January 22nd, 2015.

“A Dialogue about the Intersection of School Choice & Housing Choice.” Invited panel at the Fordham Institute, Washington, September 29th, 2015.

“Understanding Voucher Families’ Search for Housing.” Invited presentation at the Poverty and Race Research Action Council’s Conference on Housing Mobility, Chicago, July 16th, 2010.

"Leveraging Housing Opportunity for Educational Opportunity: Lessons from Families,” Briefing to the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA), Washington, D.C. March 28th, 2014.

“Neighborhoods and Education: What Can Housing Mobility Accomplish?” After Thompson: Implications for the Wellbeing of Children, a symposium with local policymakers, practitioners and researchers, Annie E. Casey Foundation, February 7th, 2014.

“Brokering the Geography of Opportunity: How Landlords Affect Access to Housing and Neighborhood Quality Among HUD Assisted Renters.” Briefing to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Jan. 30th, 2014.

“How Housing Policy Intersects with the Lives of Poor Families: Reflections on Recent Fieldwork in Mobile, AL and Baltimore, MD.” Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, Department of Housing and Urban Development. July 24th, 2012.

“Learning from Voucher Families: Close-ups of the Search Process in Mobile and Baltimore.” Invited talk at the Fifth National Conference on Assisted Housing Mobility, sponsored by the Urban Institute and Poverty and Race Research Action Council. June 12th, 2012.

“Housing Mobility and Access to Educational Opportunity.”  Invited talk at the Fifth National Conference on Assisted Housing Mobility, sponsored by the Urban Institute and Poverty and Race Research Action Council. June 12th, 2012.

“Housing the Poor: Families, Subsidized Housing Programs and the Rental Market”. Policy briefing for local and state policymakers, sponsored by the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL. April 30th, 2012.

“Increasing Access to High Performing Schools in an Assisted Housing Voucher Program.” Invited Talk for the Research and Policy Roundtable: Coordinating Housing and Education Policy to Support Racial and Economic Integration. Department of Housing and Urban Development/Department of Education Joint Meeting. Washington, D.C. February 3rd. 2011.

“Housing Opportunity Through Assisted Mobility Programs” Invited presentation to state and local policymakers at the Connecticut Fair Housing Conference, Hartford. October 27th, 2010.

“Sustaining and Promoting Opportunity Through Assisted Mobility: A Focus on Schools and Residential Stability.” Invited presentation at the Poverty and Race Research Action Council’s Conference on Housing Mobility, Urban Institute, Washington. DC. June 10th, 2010.

“Residential Mobility, Neighborhoods and Poverty: Results from the Chicago Gautreaux Program and the Moving to Opportunity Experiment.” Invited presentation at the Department of Housing and Community Development, Washington, D.C. April 6th, 2010.

“Residential Mobility, Neighborhoods and Poverty: Results from the Chicago Gautreaux Program and the Moving to Opportunity Experiment.” Presented to the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, Department of Housing and Urban Development, November 17th, 2009.

“Special Education and Race.” Briefing at the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, convened to address IDEA reauthorization. Rayburn House, March 7th, 2003