Public Scholarship

Lecture by Joel Kotkin, Senior Research Fellow, Davenport Institute, School of Public Policy, Pepperdine University. Co-Sponsors: BonTerra Consulting, UCI Department of Planning, Policy, and Design; UCI School of Social Ecology.

The Fall lecture was delivered by noted futurist Joel Kotkin, Senior Research Fellow at Pepperdine University’s Davenport Institute in the School of Public Policy. Kotkin’s remarks illustrated how Orange County has become more urbanized and highlighted how urbanization had impacted the region. He discussed how issues such as traffic congestion, population growth, declining air quality, the lack of affordable housing, and the absence of jobs with livable wages, is forcing middle-class families to leave the region, or look to the areas, such as San Bernadino and Riverside, to live. Kotkin argued that this trend, known as the “San Francisco effect,” if continued, would eventually make the region a place for only “the wealthy and those that work for the wealthy.”

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Lecture by Dr. Natsu Saito, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado. Co-Sponsors: UCI Department of Asian American Studies; UCI Department of Planning, Policy, and Design; UCI Department of Criminology, Law and Society; The Center for Unconventional Security Affairs; The Center for Research on Latinos in a Global Society

Legal scholar Dr. Natsu Saito delivered a lecture on homeland security. Her lecture examined the implications of the USA Patriot Act on Civil liberties for immigrant groups and for the rest of the population.

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Panelists: Professor Victoria Basolo, UCI Department of Planning, Policy, and Design; Jeff Prostor, President, Brookfield Homes; Laura Archuleta, Executive Director, Jamboree Housing Corporation; Scott Darrel, Executive Director, The Kennedy Commission; Pam Portillo, Director of Housing and Community Development, Chicano Federation of San Diego County. Co-Sponsors: Brookfield Homes, UCI Department of Planning, Policy, and Design.

This lecture examined strategies for increasing affordable housing in Orange County. A panel of for-profit and non-profit developers and affordable housing advocates, discussed successful strategies to produce housing for working and middle-class families.

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