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[UrbanStudiesCircular] CUNY Board of Trustees Queens Public Hearing
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 22 Mar '18

22 Mar '18

The CUNY Board of Trustees will hold a public hearing at Queens College on Monday, April 30th. It will begin at 4:30 pm and end by 8:00 pm. If you would like to speak on any issue--from adjunct salary to student housing insecurity to food scrap collection--you will need to follow the procedures available here: http://www2.cuny.edu/about/trustees/borough-hearings/rules/ -- Natalie B. Vena, J.D., Ph.D. Phone (773) 401-1496

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Wed., Mar 28: Tales of Two Americas
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

Book Launch: Tales of Two Americas Wednesday, March 28 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor For more information: https://ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-launch-tales-of-two-americas/ NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for the launch of Tales of Two Americas: Story of Inequalities in a Divided Nation<https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/551458/tales-of-two-americas-by-ed…>, a new anthology of essays edited by John Freeman. The editor will be in conversation with contributing authors Jess Ruliffson and Rickey Laurentiis, moderated by Sewell Chan. America is broken. You don't need a fistful of statistics to know this. Visit any city, and evidence of our shattered social compact will present itself. From Appalachia to the Rust Belt and down to rural Texas, the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest stretches to unimaginable chasms. Whether the cause of this inequality is systemic injustice, the entrenchment of racism in our culture, the long war on drugs, or immigration policies, it endangers not only the American Dream but our very lives. In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world's most exciting writers look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation. Their extraordinarily powerful stories, essays, and poems demonstrate how boundaries break down when experiences are shared, and that in sharing our stories we can help to alleviate a suffering that touches so many people. John Freeman was the editor of Granta until 2013. His books include How to Read a Novelist, Tales of Two Cities, and Tales of Two Americas. Maps, his debut collection of poems, was published last fall. He is the executive editor at Literary Hub and teaches at the New School and New York University. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review, and has been translated into twenty languages. Jess Ruliffson is an award-winning cartoonist who has traveled across the United States interviewing veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, documenting their injuries in hospital rooms at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, listening to stories at kitchen tables in Georgia, libraries in New York, dive bars in Mississippi, and back porches in Vermont. Her comics have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, The Gainesville Sun, BuzzFeed, The Nib, The Boston Globe, Pantheon Books, WilsonQuarterly, and The Oxford American. She has lectured on comics journalism at the Drawing Center and the Center for Cartoon Studies, and teaches at the Sequential Artists Workshop in Gainesville, FL and the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Rickey Laurentiis is an award-winning poet. He is the author of Boy with Thorn, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the Levis Reading Prize, and a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery award, as well as named one of the top ten debuts of 2015 by Poets & Writers Magazine and a top 16 best poetry books by Buzzfeed, among other distinctions. Individual poems have appeared widely, including in the Boston Review, Feminist Studies, The Kenyon Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, New Republic, The New York Times, and Poetry. Sewell Chan is an American journalist who currently serves as The New York Times international news editor, for which he has worked since 2004. In February 2011, he was named deputy opinion page editor of the Times. He was previously a Washington correspondent covering economic policy. From 2007 to 2009, he was the founding bureau chief of City Room, the newspaper's local news blog.?

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Wed., Mar 28: Thinking Beyond the Market: Housing Alternatives from the People
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

Thinking Beyond the Market: Housing Alternatives from the People Wednesday, March 28 | 6:30 - 8:30 PM NYU's Urban Democracy Lab 1 Washington Place For more information: http://urbandemos.nyu.edu/event/thinking-beyond-the-market-housing-alternat… Unaffordable and precarious housing has become the new normal, as America's protracted housing crisis continues to deepen. Has the time come to think beyond the market? How viable are bottom-up, non-market alternatives like Community Land Trusts and Tenement Syndicates? The Urban Democracy Lab is proud to host a panel discussion that takes up the question, featuring scholars and activists at the forefront of that very discussion while celebrating the release of Right To The City's report, "Community Over Commodities," and the UDL's background report, "Under One Roof." Participants include: Val Orselli, Project Director, Cooper Square Community Land Trust Mo George, Picture the Homeless Anya Irons, Director of Operations/General Counsel, UHAB Tom Angotti, Professor Emeritus, Hunter College, Department of Urban Policy and Planning and The Graduate Center, CUNY?

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fri., Mar 23: Health Equity: Shaping Just Societies
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

Health Equity: Shaping Just Societies Friday, March 23 | 1:00 PM Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation 116th St. & Broadway Avery Hall, Room 114 For more information & RSVP: https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/807-health-equity-shaping-just-societi… Health Equity: Shaping Just Societies presents efforts from the global to the local focused on addressing health inequities. Panelists highlight the ways in which institutions, policies, programs, and practices at multiple scales are working to achieve health equity through urban planning and public health practices. Keynote lecture by Jason Corburn, Professor of City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley, followed by panel discussion. Panelists Nupur Chaudhury '11 MPH, Program Officer, New York State Health Foundation Malo Hutson, Associate Professor in Urban Planning, Columbia GSAPP Mandu Sen, Program Manager, Regional Plan Association Moderated by Justin Garrett Moore '04 MSAUD, Executive Director, New York City Public Design Commission, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia GSAPP Nupur Chaudhury is a bridge builder and translator in the fields of urban planning and public health. For more than ten years, she has developed and implemented strategies to support residents, communities, and neighborhoods challenge power structures to build just, strong and equitable cities. She has led coalition building efforts after Superstorm Sandy, redeveloped power structures in villages in India, and developed a citizen planning institute for public housing residents in Brownsville, Brooklyn. At the New York State Health Foundation, she serves as the Program Officer for the Foundation’s Building Healthy Communities priority area, focusing on a multi-year place based initiative in 6 communities across the state. She holds degrees from Columbia University (MPH), New York University (MUP), and Bryn Mawr College (BA in Growth and Structure of Cities). Jason Corburn is a Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. Corburn co-leads a participatory planning team working to improve the lives of residents in the informal settlements of Nairobi, Kenya. He also works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Institute of Social Medicine, the Center for Health Promotion (CEDAPS), and FioCruz, on evaluating the health impacts of policies and programs focused on improving conditions in favelas. Corburn is a 2007 recipient of an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. His book, Street Science: Community Knowledge and Environmental Health Justice (The MIT Press, 2005), won the 2007 Paul Davidoff best book award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP). Corburn has held academic appointments at Columbia University and Hunter College, was a fellow at Harvard Law School, and worked as a senior planner with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection. Malo Hutson is an Associate Professor in Urban Planning and Director of the Urban Community and Health Equity Lab at Columbia GSAPP. His specific focus is on community development and urban equity, racial and ethnic inequalities and urban policy, as well as the built environment and health. His most recent book, The Urban Struggle for Economic, Environmental, and Social Justice: Deepening Their Roots (Routledge, 2016), explores the efforts by coalitions of residents, community leaders, unions, and others to resist displacement as a result of neighborhood change and gentrification. Hutson is also co-founder of The NIAM Group, which develops policy recommendations for local government and leads community engagement for local development projects. He received his Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and earned both his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Master of City Planning degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. Justin Garrett Moore '04 MSAUD is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture in Columbia GSAPP's urban design and urban planning programs. He is an urban designer and the Executive Director of the New York City Public Design Commission. Moore is a former Senior Urban Designer for the NYC Department of City Planning where, for over a decade, he was responsible for conducting complex urban design plans and studies of the physical design and utilization of sites including infrastructure, public spaces, land use patterns and neighborhood character. He is the co-founder of Urban Patch, a social enterprise based in Indianapolis that focuses on community revitalization and design in American inner cities. His professional affiliations include the American Institute of Certified Planners, the Urban Design Forum, and Next City’s Vanguard. He also serves as a board member for ioby.org, Mary Miss—City as Living Laboratory, and Made in Brownsville. Mandu Sen is a program manager at Regional Plan Association, working primarily on the Fourth Regional Plan. She focuses on how long term planning can improve health and equity and works to translate the impact of digital technologies into policies around infrastructure and governance. Prior to joining RPA, she worked as a planning consultant for the Chinatown Working Group, focusing on demographic analysis, economic development and banking. Mandu has an undergraduate degree from Yale and a graduate degree in urban planning from the Pratt Institute, where she received the 2013 AICP Outstanding Student Award. She also was a founding member of the Collective for Community, Culture & Environment and co-organized the Brooklyn Food Conference. Before becoming an urban planner, she was a vice president at J. P. Morgan Chase in the investment bank legal and compliance department. Organized by Columbia GSAPP.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fw: Fwd: [EESSTDNT-L] Fw: Paid CUNY student summer internship positions at the Natural Areas Conservancy
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 20 Mar '18

20 Mar '18

We are hiring 13 summer intern positions limited to current CUNY students at The Natural Areas Conservancy [naturalareasnyc.org] for the 2018 field season. Please share with your students or interested colleagues. * Undergraduate Current CUNY Students: Field Work Intern * Graduate Current CUNY Students: Field Supervisor [naturalareasnyc. org] * * Field coordinator (not limited to CUNY students): Seasonal Field Coordinator Keep in mind all positions are only for CUNY students except the field coordinator. Any questions can be sent to my email. Thanks! Leila Leila Mougoui Forest Management Analyst T 212.360.1483 E leila.mougoui(a)parks.nyc.gov<mailto:leila.mougoui@parks.nyc.gov> [NAC grey and green logo]

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] The NYFC Nick's Scholars Program is Now Accepting Applications for Fall 2018!!!
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

From: Ellen Ampofo <eampofo(a)newyorkersforchildren.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 3:58:59 PM Subject: The NYFC Nick's Scholars Program is Now Accepting Applications for Fall 2018!!! Greetings! Now accepting Applications: http://www.newyorkersforchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/NICK27S_SCH… The New Yorkers For Children Nick’s Scholars Program The Nicholas Scoppetta Scholarship (Nick’s Scholars) Program was developed by New Yorkers For Children to support New York City youth aging out of foster care to attain a college degree. It is a comprehensive program for youth in foster care and foster care alumni in New York City who are enrolled in any college in New York City. The Nick’s Scholars Program provides essential personalized wraparound services in the form of financial, academic, and emotional support to help students transition to, and succeed in college. Nick’s Scholars receive a monthly stipend to help them cover their educational and living expenses and allow them to focus on school. The program connects these students to academic and personal resources to help them overcome challenges as they navigate college on their own. As Nick’s Scholars, they belong to a larger community where they are provided the opportunity to build relationships with other Nick’s Scholars and supportive adult mentors to encourage them on their path to a college degree. Selected scholars could receive the following for up to 5 years: * $500 - $750 per month for living expenses * $1000 - $1,200 per year for books * Up to $1000 per year for tuition * Academic advisement * Peer mentoring * Career exploration * Networking opportunities Eligibility Students are eligible to apply if they are: * Currently or formerly in foster care in New York City * If formerly in foster care, student must have aged out * Enrolled or have been accepted and plan to enroll in a CUNY school for the 2018-2019 academic year * Enrolled in a private college in New York City and have completed at least their first year * In good academic standing with a minimum GPA of 2.5 * 24 years old or younger Please see attached flyer for details. Application deadline: Tuesday, April 17, 2018. How to Apply: Applications and supporting materials can be downloaded at: http://www.newyorkersforchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/NICK27S_SCH… Program Information: Detailed information about the scholarship can be found at: http://www.newyorkersforchildren.org/youth-resources/ Please share with your friends who may be eligible to apply. If you have additional questions, please feel free to reach out! Best, Ellen Ampofo Youth Academic Advisor NEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN 450 Seventh Ave, Suite 403 New York, NY 10123 Eampofo(a)newyorkersforchildren.org

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Queens Community House - Now Hiring- Youth Advocate @ PS 149
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

Queens Community House @ PS 149 is NOW HIRING for a Youth Advocate. I'm hoping that reaching out to you and your office can be mutually beneficial. Please see the job posting below and help us spread the word. STATUS: Part-Time, Non-Exempt SALARY: $21.00 P/Hour SCHEDULE: 19 Hours per week Monday – Thursday: 11AM-3PM; Friday: 11AM – 2PM with flexibility needed for meetings, events, etc. Queens Community House (QCH) is a multi-site, multi-service settlement house that serves the diverse population of Queens through a broad network of programs and services for Children and Youth, Adults and Families, and Older Adults. Our mission is to provide individuals and families with the tools to enrich their lives and build healthy, inclusive communities. We are a modern interpretation of the traditional settlement house, bringing to our work current best practices, cost-effective management, innovative leadership, and a passion for social and economic justice. Our mission is to provide individuals and families with the tools to enrich their lives and build healthy, inclusive communities. We welcome amazing individuals who have diverse backgrounds and experiences, are inspired by our mission and are highly motivated to change lives. The PS 149 Community School Success Mentor Program is an evidence-based, data-driven school mentoring model that seeks to improve attendance, behavior and educational outcomes for at-risk students in our neediest communities nationwide. Youth Advocates are trained to serve as advisors, motivators, connectors, confidence-builders, and early warning systems for chronically absent students at risk of getting off track – both in school and in life. Using early warning systems and data to identify struggling students before they get off track or drop out. This is the nation's largest effort to use evidence-based, school-linked mentoring to drive school and life success. The Youth Advocate (YA) plays a valuable role in the Community School Success Mentor Program. The YA develops key relationships and makes regular, weekly contact with participants and their parents of an identified cohort in order to guide them, and to reach attendance and other goals. The Youth Advocate also promotes learning, communication skills, self-esteem and socialization skills for youth participants in the program. The YA, in collaboration with the parents, teachers and staff members, actively support participants in setting and achieving goals, and in working on improving overall behaviors. The Youth Advocate plays a very important role in the child’s development. Responsibilities: • Meeting with participants on a weekly basis. • Documenting weekly contacts in chart. • Setting Goals for each participant and regularly following up on the progress of the goals. • Completing monthly stats in a timely manner. • Maintaining an active case load. • Making contact with parents and school officials regularly. • Running small group sessions with participants. • Collecting report cards every marking period from participants. • Participating in bi-monthly staff meetings and other training opportunities. • Regularly reviewing and maintaining attendance and outcome data and submitting attendance reports in a timely manner. • Attending field trips where necessary. • Obtaining and making copies of all relevant forms and necessary paperwork for all participants. • Creating individual folders for each participant and maintaining accurate and updated notes. • Maintain an efficient filing system for all participants folders and general correspondences. Qualifications: · Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree  · Minimum of two (2) years' experience working with elementary school-aged children. · Track record of developing strong relationships with parents · Demonstrated ability to plan and facilitate one on one meetings or small group meetings.    · Must have a commitment to work from a strength-based and/or youth development perspective.   · Demonstrate cultural competency   · Demonstrated attendance and punctuality in meeting required schedule.   · Excellent organizational, prioritization, communication and interpersonal skills.   · Ability to maintain confidentiality and use appropriate discretion.   · Bilingual (English/Spanish) a requirement. Additional Details: This position is available immediately. Application Method: We are a passion-led, mission-driven organization – one that looks to continually enrich the lives of our diverse member community. If you would like to join our team, please e-mail your cover letter and resume, with subject line “Youth Advocate” to Domingo Espinal Jr. at: despinal(a)qchnyc.org<mailto:despinal@qchnyc.org> Cover letter should state why you think you would make a good candidate, including your specific skills, talents and experiences that would contribute to our team. Thanks! Ozzie Ozzie Araujo Director, Beacon Services Queens Community House 108-25 62nd Drive Forest Hills, NY 11375 Tel: (917) 714-9732 www.queenscommunityhouse.org<http://www.queenscommunityhouse.org/> Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/QueensCommunityHouse>, Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/qchnyc/>, Twitter<https://twitter.com/QCHnyc?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5E…><https://twitter.com/QCHnyc?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5E…><https://twitter.com/QCHnyc?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5E…> [1506007068304_image001.png]

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Apr 27: Gentrification and the Future of Work in New York City's "Chinatowns"
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 08 Mar '18

08 Mar '18

Gentrification and the Future of Work in New York City's "Chinatowns"? Friday, April 27 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM Asian American / Asian Research Institute - CUNY 25 West 43rd Street, Room 1000 For more information & RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gentrification-and-the-future-of-work-in-new-y… DESCRIPTION New York City's "Chinatowns" are becoming increasingly inhospitable to both long-term residents and recent immigrants from working class backgrounds. Such immense changes in the landscape and intensive re-routings of both people and money can often be traced back to a political crisis-the attacks of September 11, 2001-and an economic crisis-the financial meltdown that peaked in Fall 2008. These recent events and forces represent a significant shift in the overall function of multi-ethnic Chinese neighborhoods in New York City, and their relationship to both the broader U.S. and Chinese economies. This talk, based on an article for Asian American Matters: A New York Anthology, utilizes employment data from the New York State Department of Labor (DOL) to document fundamental shifts in Chinatown, Flushing and Sunset Park's local economies, and examines the transition of New York City's "Chinatowns" from sites of surplus labor to sites of surplus capital. Using this Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) data, Tarry Hum and Samuel Stein compared the neighborhood economies of New York City's "Chinatowns" during two periods, in 2000 (pre-9/11 crisis), and in 2015 (post-2008 "Great Recession"). The transformations that Chinatown, Sunset Park and Flushing are undergoing not only are remaking the neighborhoods' built environments and economic sectors, but also the modes of struggle labor utilizes to reproduce itself and make political claims. Tarry Hum is a Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College/CUNY and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn's Sunset Park which received a 2015 Honorable Mention for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning's Paul Davidoff Award. Hum is co-editing a forthcoming volume from Temple University Press, Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, NY.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Mar 26: Book Launch | The Help-Yourself City
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 08 Mar '18

08 Mar '18

Book Launch: The Help-Yourself City Monday, March 26 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM NYU's Institute fore Public Knowledge 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor For more information: https://ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-launch-the-help-yourself-city/ NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for the launch of Gordon Douglas's The Help-Yourself City: Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism.<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-help-yourself-city-978019069132…> The author will be present in conversation with Caroline Lee and Harvey Molotch. When local governments neglect public services or community priorities, how do concerned citizens respond? In The Help-Yourself City, Gordon Douglas looks closely at people who take urban planning into their own hands with homemade signs and benches, guerrilla bike lanes and more. Douglas explores the frustration, creativity, and technical expertise behind these interventions, but also the position of privilege from which they often come. Presenting a needed analysis of this growing trend from vacant lots to city planning offices, The Help-Yourself City tells a street-level story of people's relationships to their urban surroundings and the individualization of democratic responsibility. Gordon C. C. Douglas<https://ipk.nyu.edu/people/gordon-douglas/> is Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the Institute for Metropolitan Studies at San José State University. He is a multidisciplinary urbanist whose work sits at the intersection of urban political-economy, community studies, and cultures of planning and design. Prior to joining the Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning at San José State, he was the Rebuild by Design Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University, where he also served as Associate Director (2015-2016) and Acting Director (2016-2017) of the Institute for Public Knowledge. Caroline W. Lee<https://sites.lafayette.edu/leecw/> is Professor of Sociology in the Anthropology & Sociology Department at Lafayette College. She is a comparative institutional sociologist with research and teaching interests in the following areas: political sociology, social movements, economic sociology, law, sociology of knowledge and culture, urban and environmental sociology, and research methods. She is the author of Do-It-Yourself Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2015) and an editor of the volume Democratizing Inequalities (NYU Press, 2015). Harvey Molotch<https://ipk.nyu.edu/people/harvey-molotch/> is Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies at New York University. His writings focus on cities with special attention to economic development, urban security, artifacts, and product design. He is the author of several books including Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger. (Princeton University Press, 2012.); Where Stuff Comes From: How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers and Many Other Things Come to Be as They Are (Routledge, 2003); and Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place (with John Logan) (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1987. 20th anniversary edition, 2007).

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Mar 29: The Struggle for Housing
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 08 Mar '18

08 Mar '18

The Struggle for Housing: A Panel Discussion Thursday, March 29 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue, Room TBA For more information: http://cunyadjunctproject.org/ * Marina Ortiz<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__about.me_marinajortiz&…>, an anti-gentrification activist with East Harlem Preservation<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__eastharlempreservation…>and VirtualBoricua<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__virtualboricua.org_&d=D…>; * Chaumtoli Huq<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lawatthemargins.com_cha…>, a labor and immigration attorney and founder and editor-in-chief of Law at the Margins<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lawatthemargins.com_&d=…>; * Susanna Blankley<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nyf.org_speakers_susann…>, a housing organizer and coalition coordinator ofRight to Counsel NYC<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.righttocounselnyc.…>; * Julian Brave Noisecat<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.julianbravenoiseca…>, a writer, activist, and policy analyst at 350<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__350.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=mR…>; and * Sam Stein<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__gc-2Dcuny.academia.edu…>, a PhD candidate and urban-studies scholar at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Labor insecurity and housing insecurity go hand in hand: if you don't have a job, it's hard to keep yourself housed, and if you don't have housing, it's hard to keep a job. Meanwhile, if your employment is precarious, your housing likely is too, and if your housing is precarious-whether threatened by gentrification, shady landlords, or municipal negligence-your ability to labor is affected. But how are labor issues specificallyconnected to housing issues? How does labor exploitation ramify in housing exploitation and vice versa? How can we think of struggles for housing, variously considered, as labor issues, and why should we consider them as such? What can labor movements learn from housing movements, and how can we think these movements together? We're thinking of gentrification, tenants' rights, and housing for people without homes, but also of Native dispossession, deportation, and other structures and practices that produce housing (and labor) insecurity. In other words, the connections between land, settlement, borders, and racial capital as they work together in the present moment, renovating (or not) their past entanglements as they produce and reproduce labor and housing issues. "The Struggle for Housing" is part of theCUNY Adjunct Project's<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunyadjunctproject.org_…> ongoing series "Toward a Just Contract" that investigates dimensions of labor and workers' experiences beyond the so-called "bread-and-butter" issues of pay and employment conditions that are generally prioritized in contract bargaining (see previous eventshere<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunyadjunctproject.org_…> and here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunyadjunctproject.org_…>). Based at the Graduate Center, CUNY, the Adjunct Project organizes in collaboration with and advocates for adjunct and other contingent faculty across CUNY. We also endeavor to hold space for vital conversations about labor in its manifold dimensions and connections to other areas of life, politics, and society. Selected Resources Julian Brave NoiseCat, "A Tale of Two Housing Crises, Rural and Urban," High Country News, 5 Feb. 2018. https://www.hcn.org/issues/50.2/tribal-affairs-a-tale-of-two-housing-crises…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.hcn.org_issues_50.…> Shahana Sharif, "A Year in Review: We Keep Resisting," Law at the Margins, 2 Feb. 2018. http://lawatthemargins.com/year-review-keep-resisting/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lawatthemargins.com_yea…> Picture the Homeless, "A Victory Ten Years in the Making: We Passed the Housing Not Warehousing Act!!," 21 Dec. 2017. http://picturethehomeless.org/victory-ten-years-making-passed-housing-not-w…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__picturethehomeless.org_…> Sam Stein, "Progress for Whom, Toward What? Progressive Politics and New York City's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing,"Journal of Urban Affairs, 13 Dec. 2017. https://www.academia.edu/35562223/Progress_for_whom_toward_what_Progressive…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.academia.edu_35562…> "Gentrification Express: Breaking Down the BQX," documentary, 2 Aug. 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8XmFjZOSSo<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-…> Picture the Homeless, "Banking on Vacancy: Homelessness and Real Estate Speculation," 17 Aug. 2015. https://www.dropbox.com/s/y5l9089k9c7o4nj/Banking_on_Vacancy%283%29.pdf?dl=0<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.dropbox.com_s_y5l9…> ### The Adjunct Project, an affiliate of the Doctoral Students' Council, CUNY http://cunyadjunctproject.org/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunyadjunctproject.org_…>

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