Boris Santos is a former elementary school teacher and legislative staffer at the New York City Council and New York State Senate. Mr. Santos currently resides in Cypress Hills and is the Treasurer of the East New York Community Land Trust Steering Committee.
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Event Overview
Where we live and grow has deep implications on our life trajectories: It determines where we go to school, the healthcare we can access, and the opportunities available to us. This panel discussion will focus on understanding housing in the context of U.S. suburban and urban residential fabrics through its origins and the ways in which structural racism and bias are ingrained in our housing system. Panelists will address some of the physical, social, and economic changes currently taking place that either deepen inequality or — through policy innovation, community action, and organizing — reassert control over the built, social, and natural environments in neighborhoods, providing vehicles to create generational wealth and thriving communities.
What You'll Learn
- History and contextualization of U.S. suburban and urban residential fabrics
- The physical, social, and economic changes currently taking place
- How a range of processes, from immigration and gentrification to structural racism, continue to shape our housing policies and built form
- Ways in which communities organize to resist eviction and displacement while creating generational wealth
Speakers
Treasurer of East New York Community Land Trust
Suzanne Lanyi Charles
Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning
Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning; College of Architecture, Art, and Planning; Cornell University
Suzanne Lanyi Charles’s teaching and research examine physical, social, and economic changes in older, inner-ring suburban neighborhoods. In particular, her research addresses infill redevelopment and mansionization, the financialization of housing, and single-family rental housing (SFR). Dr. Charles’s current research examines whether SFR provides access to spatially constituted opportunity structures in suburbia or instead reinforces segregation by race and income in the region. Her research has received grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, the Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell, and the President’s Council of Cornell Women.
Willow S. Lung-Amam
Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, and Director of Community Development at the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education
University of Maryland, College Park
Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, and Director of Community Development at the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, University of Maryland, College Park
Willow Lung-Amam, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning and Director of Community Development at the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has written extensively on suburban poverty, racial segregation, immigration, gentrification, redevelopment politics, and neighborhood opportunity. Dr. Lung-Amam is the author of “Trespassers? Asian American and the Battle for Suburbia” as well as a forthcoming book on redevelopment politics and equitable development organizing in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. Her research has also appeared in various journals, books, and popular media outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, National Public Radio, New Republic, Bloomberg’s CityLab, and Al Jazeera. Dr. Lung-Amam is a nonresident fellow at the Urban Institute’s Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center and a nonresident Senior Fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies program.
Treasurer of East New York Community Land Trust
Boris Santos is a former elementary school teacher and legislative staffer at the New York City Council and New York State Senate. Mr. Santos currently resides in Cypress Hills and is the Treasurer of the East New York Community Land Trust Steering Committee.
Suzanne Lanyi Charles
Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning
Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning; College of Architecture, Art, and Planning; Cornell University
Suzanne Lanyi Charles’s teaching and research examine physical, social, and economic changes in older, inner-ring suburban neighborhoods. In particular, her research addresses infill redevelopment and mansionization, the financialization of housing, and single-family rental housing (SFR). Dr. Charles’s current research examines whether SFR provides access to spatially constituted opportunity structures in suburbia or instead reinforces segregation by race and income in the region. Her research has received grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, the Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell, and the President’s Council of Cornell Women.
Willow S. Lung-Amam
Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, and Director of Community Development at the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education
University of Maryland, College Park
Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, and Director of Community Development at the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, University of Maryland, College Park
Willow Lung-Amam, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning and Director of Community Development at the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has written extensively on suburban poverty, racial segregation, immigration, gentrification, redevelopment politics, and neighborhood opportunity. Dr. Lung-Amam is the author of “Trespassers? Asian American and the Battle for Suburbia” as well as a forthcoming book on redevelopment politics and equitable development organizing in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. Her research has also appeared in various journals, books, and popular media outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, National Public Radio, New Republic, Bloomberg’s CityLab, and Al Jazeera. Dr. Lung-Amam is a nonresident fellow at the Urban Institute’s Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center and a nonresident Senior Fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies program.
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