Evans School Research Seminar Series: Nicole Esparza, University of Southern California
February 1, 2010
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Parrington Hall, Forum Room 309
Nicole Esparza, an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning and Development is serving as the Consortium on Collaborative Governance speaker for 2009-2010. Professor Esparza will be speaking at the Evans School Faculty Seminar series on "Skid Rows or Suburban Services: How the Spatial Concentration of Antipoverty Can Explain Sector Size." Nicole Esparza received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton in 2007. Her research interests include organizational dynamics, urban inequality, and economic sociology. This series is co-sponsored by the West Coast Poverty Center.
Abstract:
This paper examines the spatial distribution and size of homeless service sectors in twenty-six metropolitan areas. The two issues are interrelated in that where the sector is geographically constrained, the sector is boxed-in, limiting its size in ways that are decoupled from need for services. The paper explains these patterns of outcomes by the beggar thy neighbor dynamics of fragmented governance and the NIMBYism catalyzed by segregation and home ownership. Finally, it closes with a discussion of the difficulties public managers face when pursuing fair-share policies for dealing with chronic urban problems.
For more information about this event, please contact Aubri Wall via email or by phone at (206) 685-7134.
This event is open to: students, faculty, staff.