Associate Professor, Urban Policy and Chair of Policy Programs, Alex Schwartz will be speaking at the University of Kansas on “Housing after the Crisis”.
Given the recent election, Schwartz said that his presentation would also look at the Obama administration’s housing policies, including the shortcomings of its foreclosure prevention strategy, and its inability to address the nation’s housing problems after the Republicans gained control of Congress in 2010.
Professor Schwartz is the author of Housing Policy in the United States: 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2010). His research has also appeared in such journals as Cityscape, Economic Development Quarterly, Housing Policy Debate, Housing Studies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, the Journal of Urban Affairs, and the Journal of the American Planning Association. In addition, he is the Managing Editor for North America for the international journal Housing Studies.
Professor Schwartz currently teaches Policy, Policy Analysis, Laboratory Issue Analysis.
