The State of the Nation’s Housing 2009
Eric Belsky, Executive Director, and Daniel McCue, Research Analyst, Joint Center for Housing Studies

Brown Bag Lunch Discussion
Fixing Broken Cities: The Implementation of Urban Development Strategies
John Kromer, Senior Consultant, Fels Institute of Government, University of Pennsylvania

Brown Bag Lunch Discussion
Cross-Border Cooperation on the Island of Ireland
Minister Conor Murphy, Minister for Regional Development in Northern Ireland

Brown Bag Lunch Discussion
Shared Legacies, Diverging Systems: Post-Colonial Approaches To Land, Housing and Planning In Ireland and Massachusetts
Karen Keaveney, Lecturer in Spatial Planning, SPACE Erasmus Programme Director, School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering (SPACE), Queen's University Belfast

Building the Road to Recovery: Using Transparency and Other Tools to Ensure Federal Aid Creates Jobs and Lays a Foundation for Economic Growth
Jeffrey Simon, Director, Massachusetts Office of Infrastructure Investment
Commentary by:
Archon Fung, Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship and Co-Director, Transparency Policy Project, Harvard Kennedy School
Pam Wilmot, Executive Director, Common Cause Massachusetts

10th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture

Toward a More Sustainable Future:
Housing, Place and the New Federalism

The Honorable Shaun Donovan
Secretary
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Co-sponsored by:
National Housing Endowment
Harvard Kennedy School
Real Estate Academic Initiative

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Brown Bag Lunch Discussion
Tackling the Nation’s Toughest Housing Challenges: Homelessness
Philip Mangano, The American Round Table to Abolish Homelessness

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Brown Bag Lunch Discussion
Tackling the Nation’s Toughest Housing Challenges:
A Neighborhood in Providence
Barbara Fields, Executive Director, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, and Frank Shea, Executive Director, Olneyville Housing Corporation

12:00 noon
Harvard Graduate School of Design
48 Quincy Street
Gund Hall, Room 505

Brown Bag Lunch Discussion
Tackling the Nation’s Toughest Housing Challenges: Boston Neighborhoods—Planning Challenges
Evelyn Friedman, Chief of Housing and Director of the Department of Neighborhood Development, City of Boston

Brown Bag Lunch Discussion
Tackling the Nation’s Toughest Housing Challenges
Bruce Marks, Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America

12:00 noon
Harvard Kennedy School
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Taubman Building, Nye C