Evaluating educational initiatives to improve palliative care for people with dementia: A narrative review.

Dementia accounts for one in three deaths among people aged 65 and over, but end-of-life care for people with dementia is often sub-optimal. Palliative care for people with dementia poses particular challenges to those providing services, and current policy initiatives recommend education and training in palliative care for those working with patients with dementia. However, there are few evaluations of the effectiveness of dementia education and training. This paper presents a narrative review undertaken in 2011-2012 of evaluations of palliative care education for those working with people with dementia at the end of life. A total of eight papers were identified that described and evaluated such palliative care education; none reported benefits for people with dementia. There is a clear need to develop and evaluate educational interventions designed to improve palliative and end-of-life care for people with dementia. Some suggestions for educationally sound approaches are discussed

Situating Data Sets: Making Public Data Actionable for Housing Justice

Activists, governmentsm and academics regularly advocate for more open data. But how is data made open, and for whom is it made useful and usable? In this paper, we investigate and describe the work of making eviction data open to tenant organizers. We do this through an ethnographic description of ongoing work with a local housing activist organization. This work combines observation, direct participation in data work, and creating media artifacts, specifically digital maps. Our interpretation is grounded in D'Ignazio and Klein's Data Feminism, emphasizing standpoint theory. Through our analysis and discussion, we highlight how shifting positionalities from data intermediaries to data accomplices affects the design of data sets and maps. We provide HCI scholars with three design implications when situating data for grassroots organizers: becoming a domain beginner, striving for data actionability, and evaluating our design artifacts by the social relations they sustain rather than just their technical efficacy.Comment: 16 pages including references, 4 figures, 1 table, ACM CHI 202

Housing Justice in Unequal Cities

Housing Justice in Unequal Cities is a global research network funded by the National Science Foundation (BCS 1758774) and housed at the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin. This open-access volume, co-edited by Ananya Roy and Hilary Malson, brings together movement-based and university-based scholars to build a shared field of inquiry focused on housing justice. Based on a convening that took place in Los Angeles in January 2019, at the LA Community Action Network and at the University of California, Los Angeles, the essays and interventions situate housing justice in the long struggle for freedom on stolen land. Embedded in the stark inequalities of Los Angeles, our work is necessarily global, connecting the city’s Skid Row to the indebted and evicted in Spain and Greece, to black women’s resistance in Brazil, to the rights asserted by squatters in India and South Africa. Learning from radical social movements, we argue that housing justice also requires a commitment to research justice. With this in mind, our effort to build a field of inquiry is also necessarily an endeavor to build epistemologies and methodologies that are accountable to communities that are on the frontlines of banishment and displacement

The impact of racial segregation, income sorting and risk-based mortgage pricing on housing wealth inequality: A comparison between urban regions in the United States

Housing wealth is the cornerstone of U.S. households’ balance sheets and is among the largest stores of wealth in the United States. This study examines rising housing wealth inequality between 2005 and 2015 in an urban context. Past research suggests that rising income inequality, rising income segregation, or racial segregation could be a cause. Other research highlights the role of mortgage lending in generating inequality. The subprime and foreclosure crises have a well-documented association with housing inequality. Other work highlights risk based mortgage pricing more generally as a mechanism for widening inequality. I first examine the drivers of urban housing wealth inequality with a cross-sectional regression analysis in 2000-2005. I examine how income and racial segregation affect housing wealth inequality between cities prior to the crisis, and find that income inequality is weakly correlated with housing wealth inequality, but income and racial segregation have strong effects. Then, I examine if changes in segregation explain rising housing wealth inequality during the real estate and financial crises of the 2000s, or if mortgage market factors explain the rise. I find that changes in income inequality lead to higher housing wealth inequality; that rises in Black racial segregation again explain much of the increase, and that subprime lending does not fully account for that effect. Finally, I use granular data in a series of quantile regressions to understand the drivers of housing wealth inequality during the housing market recovery years of 2010-2015. I find that risk-based mortgage pricing and income segregation interact to produce significant and meaningfully large increases in housing wealth inequality over a 5-year period, from 2010-2015. Finally, I briefly discuss the ramifications for national housing finance reform, as well as for state and local mortgage programs and policies like inclusionary/exclusionary zoning. The current administration has put housing finance reform at the top of its agenda. Many proposals suggest partial or complete privatization of the government sponsored enterprises (GSE)s, which would lead to increase in risk-based pricing and market segmentation. Additionally, reform could disrupt GSE subsidization of state and local mortgage revenue bond programs. State and local actors should seek to preserve these capacities and increase local programs to guarantee mortgages and provide down payment assistance where possible. Cities should weigh carefully the costs of exclusionary zoning not only on income segregation, but on widening wealth inequality within their region. This dissertation contributes to the literature by situating the phenomenon of rising housing wealth inequality in a spatial, urban context and describing the impact of individual, neighborhood, and regional characteristics on the production of housing wealth inequality. I also tie these results to policy remedies at the national and local levels.Ph.D

Introducing New Voices in Design Research, Fall 2019

Presented on November 7, 2019 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in the Caddell Building, Flex Space, Georgia Tech.PRESENTATION TITLE: "Everyday Materials Transformed by Computing". HyunJoo Oh is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the School of Industrial Design and the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Working at the intersection of human-computer interaction and design, she studies and builds computational design tools and methods that integrate everyday materials with computing. She explores how computing technologies can extend and transform familiar materials around us and investigates how those combinations can broaden creative possibilities for designers. Oh received her Ph.D. in Technology, Media, and Society from the University of Colorado, Boulder, with a graduate certificate in Cognitive Science in 2018 and has master’s degrees in Entertainment Technology from Carnegie Mellon University and Media Interaction Design from Ewha Womans University. Her work has been published at ACM SIGCHI conferences and maker community and widely used by K-12 teachers and maker spaces.PRESENTATION TITLE: "Discussion of Current Research". Elora Raymond is an assistant professor in the School of City and Regional Planning in the College of Design. Her research is at the intersection of real estate finance and socio-spatial inequality. She has explored the uneven housing market recovery following the real estate and financial crises of the 2000s, persistent and concentrated negative equity in the Southeast, the rise of single-family rental securitizations, and eviction rates in single-family rentals. She has ongoing projects on affordable housing issues among Pacific Islanders in the diaspora, and land tenure issues in the South Pacific. Raymond earned her Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Georgia Tech in 2017. She has a B.A. in History from Brown University. Her research has been featured in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Bloomberg’s Businessweek, NPR’s Morning Edition, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Univision, and Radio New Zealand, among other news outlets.PRESENTATION TITLE: "Permanence and Permeability: New Design, Old Buildings". Ryan Roark is the 2019-21 Ventulett NEXT Fellow at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture. The Ventulett NEXT Generation Visiting Fellows is an initiative intended for young faculty who are at the beginning of their careers and interested in interdisciplinary teaching and research that merges design, technology, and culture. As an architectural designer and writer, she focuses on the role of history in building design and urban planning. Ryan was a 2017 KPF Paul Katz Fellow in London, where she studied different typologies of design interventions into old buildings and the attitudes to history they represent. Her work at Georgia Tech continues this formal, tectonic, and historical investigation as well as examining the role augmented and mixed reality will play in the design of the 21st-century city. Alongside teaching and design, Ryan writes about the history of historic preservation, the relationship between individual and city from the 16th century through the present, and the history of intellectual cross-pollination between microbiology and architecture. She has previously taught at Rice University and has worked at architecture firms in New York and Los Angeles. She has an MArch from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Oncology from Cambridge University.Runtime: 50:41 minutesNew faculty members in the College of Design share their research

Disaster Discordance: Local Court Implementation of State and Federal Eviction Prevention Policies During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Eviction sits at the nexus of property rights and the basic human need for shelter—the former benefits from a strong framework of legal protection while the latter does not. In most eviction courts across the country, therefore, the right to housing is unrecognized, while landlords’ economic interests in property are consistently vindicated. The public health crisis unleashed by COVID-19 temporarily upended that (im)balance. Emergency federal and state eviction prevention policies issued in response to COVID-19 prioritized public health—-and the need for shelter to prevent the spread of disease—-over typically dominant property rights. In doing so, they presented courts with an unusual dilemma: how to implement policy directives that run counter to existing legal, historical, and procedural frameworks. While most studies of eviction during the COVID-19 pandemic have explored eviction trends over the period or the impact of these policies, this Article delves more deeply into the question of local implementation-—which varied widely across jurisdictions—-and asks when and why such policies may not have their full intended impact. Relying on a series of interviews conducted with judges, clerks, and lawyers working in eviction courts, the Article suggests that the phenomenon of discordance can help explain how and when policy implementation is most likely to be effective. Where accordance—-functional and norm-based alignment -—existed between judges’ understanding of the eviction process and COVID-19 policy directives, they were more likely to be proactive and focused on implementation. However, where judges experienced discordance-—misalignment between the aims of these directives and those of the underlying legal structure and process—-they were more likely to cast themselves as passive and highly restricted in their ability to act outside of the normal order of operations. Although set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, the findings and conclusions set forth in this Article are not unique to that context. The insights presented here regarding the implementation of state and federal policy at the local court level provide critical guidance to policymakers in all areas about the need to consider local dynamics in crafting policy-—particularly in times of crisis-—and how to structure policies so that local motivations can be used to spur innovation rather than obstruction

A Data Feminist Approach to Urban Data Practice: Tenant Power through Eviction Data

Acknowledging the role of data in reproducing (and disrupting) existing power relationships, this article argues data feminism is a useful intervention in data practice for planners and others interested in engaging in data ethics evaluation of complex urban problems. Through critical organizational analyses of eviction-related projects in Atlanta, Georgia, and Richmond, Virginia, we illustrate the data feminism approach to reimagining eviction data as a tool for tenant empowerment. We find that why, how, for whom, and with whom we collect, present, and organize eviction data is both driven by and drives the narratives, policy, and practice around eviction. Shifting the power, process, and participants of eviction data creation can facilitate tenant organizing and a rebalancing of the landlord-tenant power and information dynamic. Such a reorientation of the purpose, creation, and usage of data could promote data justice across a variety of urban policy areas

Day 1: Morning Sessions & Keynote Address (GSHA 12th Annual Supportive Housing Conference)

A Conversation with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities leadership will update us on the state\u27s efforts to provide housing and supports to formerly homeless persons with behavioral health and/or substance abuse disorders by providing supportive housing and services. They will update us on where we are now and share what lies ahead this year for DBHDD in the wake of the successful passage of the Mental Health Parity Act in 2022, with historic levels of federal and state funds. Strategies to Advance Housing Equity Through Federal, State, and Local State Policy Actions This session features recognized experts providing a national, state, and local perspective on important housing justice issues. Mr. Miao will discuss successful equitable housing policies implemented by local jurisdictions with support from the ChangeLab Solutions Housing Collaborative. Attorney Appley will update us on advocacy at the Georgia Capitol surrounding state policy on housing and homelessness. Dr. Raymond will provide an overview of her research on housing justice, race, segregation, and the financialization of housing. Keynote Address: Housing First - Putting Proven Best Practices to Work to End Unsheltered Homelessness The Housing First model, launched in 1992 by Dr. Sam Tsemberis, is an evidence-based intervention that uses a psych-rehab philosophy driven by consumer choice to engage, house, and keep housed individuals with long histories of homelessness, mental illness, and addiction. Housing First is based on the belief that housing is a basic human right and not something that must be earned through demonstrated periods of sobriety or other clinical or programmatic prerequisites. Housing First programs have been implemented across the United States, Canada, European Union, Australia, and New Zealand. Dr. Tsemberis is currently working with the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities and local nonprofits to expand the practice of Housing First throughout the State