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7:15am EDT

TH7.00.03 Creating Livable Communities: Academic Perspectives Grand Ballroom (2nd floor)Roger Caves • Cecilia Giusti, Texas A&M University • Fritz Wagner

9:15am EDT

TH9.15.01 Informal Urbanism in North America (PART 1, Proposal for a two-panel session) Trinity (2nd floor)Anthony Barnum • Renia Ehrenfeucht • Nabil Kamel • Gregory Morrow • Renia Ehrenfeucht

11:00am EDT

TH11.00.03 The Politics of Neighborhood Revitlization in the Post-Industrial City Windsor (2nd floor)Juliet Musso • Ellen Shiau • Robert Stoker • Martin Horak, Western University • Clarence Stone TH11.00.02 Using Making Connections Data to Explore Influences, Experiences and Perceptions of Urban Life in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Balmoral (2nd floor)Julia Burdick-Will • Megan Gilster • Amanda Roy • Carlos Siordia • Anita Zuberi • Catherine Haggerty

1:30pm EDT

TH1.30.03 Economic, Social, and Political Disruption in San Francisco Alhambra (2nd floor)Corey Cook • Rachel Brahinsky, University of San Francisco • Tim Redmond • Corey Cook TH1.30.20 Miami Thrives: Building a “Place-based Change” Community of Practice Raphael (2nd floor)Gretchen Beesing • Shekeria Brown • Arden Shank • Gretchen Beesing TH1.30.01 Mixed Income Redevelopment and the Questions of Who Loses and Who Finds Community? Balmoral (2nd floor)Ashley Brown-Burns • James Fraser • Kim Skobba, University of Georgia • Dennis Watson • Deirdre Oakley, Georgia State University TH1.30.02 Informal Urbanism in North America (PART 2, Proposal for a two-panel session) Gusman (lobby level)Evan Casper-Futterman • Kimberley Kinder, University of Michigan • Jason Neville • Kimberley Kinder, University of Michigan

3:15pm EDT

TH3.15.03 Community Information: A Quarter-Century of Innovation Sandringham (2nd floor)G. Thomas Kingsley • Meg Merrick • Lisa Nelson • Kathy Pettit • Sabina Deitrick, University of Pittsburgh • Kathy Pettit TH3.15.01 Housing Policies in the Global South: Innovative versus Traditional Approaches Windsor (2nd floor)Lan Deng • Ashok Das, University of Hawaii at Manoa • Giorgio Talocci • Paavo Monkkonen, University of California Los Angeles

8:05am EDT

FR8.05.03 Place-Making for the Poor: Creative Destruction and Security of Home Windsor (2nd floor)Jeffrey Lowe • Edward Goetz, University of Minnesota • Susan Saegert • Benjamin Teresa • Kathe Newman, Rutgers University • Susan Saegert FR8.05.01 Preserving access to the city through housing policy Balmoral (2nd floor)Elizabeth Mueller, University of Texas at Austin • Todd Nedwick • Melinda Pollack • Barbara Brown Wilson • Barbara Brown Wilson

9:50am EDT

PS11.0 Waking Up in Our Own House: Homeless Mothers’ Perspectives on Housing Stability and Child Well-Being Biscayne Ballroom (2nd floor)Scott Brown PS13.0 Buying In: Putting a Price on Urbanity in the Digital City Biscayne Ballroom (2nd floor)Luc Guillemot PS14.0 Transformation of Low-income Settlements into Public Housing: A Case of Kadifekale Biscayne Ballroom (2nd floor)Melis Kural PS15.0 Do Affordable Homes Look Different? Biscayne Ballroom (2nd floor)Cody Price PS18.0 Gentrification's Pace: How Senior Citizens are Affected in the Urban Core Biscayne Ballroom (2nd floor)Katherine Wilson

10:30am EDT

FR10.30.02 Methodological challenges and associated key research findings: The payoff of tackling complex and labor-intensive data issues Hibiscus (lobby level)Daniel Brisson • Claudia Coulton • Robert Goerge • Brett Theodos • Emily Zimmerman • Ned English FR10.30.07 Urban Research and Activism: Housing and Community Development Alhambra (2nd floor)Janet Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago • Andrew J. Greenlee, Ph.D. • Susan Saegert • Elizabeth Sweet • Kathe Newman, Rutgers University • Lisa K. Bates, Portland State University • Janet Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago FR10.30.01 The Context, Scale and Transferability of Housing Policies in the Global South Balmoral (2nd floor)Adauto Lucio Cardoso • Anuradha Mukherji • Richard Tomlinson • Richard Ronald

1:45pm EDT

FR1.45.01 Housing the Senior Surge: Emerging Issues as the Boomers Pass 60 Balmoral (2nd floor)Claudia Aranda • Jennifer Molinsky • Rolf Pendall • Robert Pitingolo • Sandra Rosenbloom • Diane Levy

3:40pm EDT

FR3.40.01 The End of “Public” Housing? Policy Frameworks and Implementation on HUD’s 50th Anniversary Balmoral (2nd floor)Prentiss Dantzler • James Hanlon • Leah Hendey • Amy Khare • Lawrence J. Vale • Amy Khare

9:00am EDT

SA9.00.01 Place-based Change: Housing and Community Development Initiatives in Miami Raphael (2nd floor)Emily Eisenhauer • Arden Shank • Claudia Villalta • Emily Eisenhauer SA9.00.03 Policy Making Towards Informal Housing Production in the US: Unanticipated Consequences and Workarounds Sandringham (2nd floor)Carlos Olmedo, University of Texas at Austin • Noah Durst • Jake Wegmann • Jake Wegmann