Urban renewal, highway construction, gentrification, HOPE VI, foreclosure crisis: a long list of policies and programs have led to the displacement of communities.  What is little understood is that these policies have led to repeatedly upheaval in American cities, destroying housing and undermining health.  This conference will explore the history, tactics and consequences of serial displacement.  

Program:

Keynote: Thomas Hanchett, Author of Sorting Out the New South City

Morning Panel: Serial displacement and health

• Mindy Thompson Fullilove, NYS Psychiatric Institute
• Rodrick Wallace, NYS Psychiatric Institute
• Pat Sharkey, Columbia University
• Susan Saegert, Vanderbilt University, and co-authors Desiree Fields and Kimberly Libman

Working Groups: Linking Serial Displacement to Our Work

LUNCH

Afternoon Panel:

• Mehret Mandefro, TruthAIDS
• Patrick Morrissy, HANDS, Inc., Orange NJ
• Terri Baltimore, Hill House, Pittsburgh

Working Groups: Identifying New Perspectives

Summary of workgroups: David Vlahov, NY Academy of Medicine

• Kiara Nagel
• Zeinab Eyega

NYAM Working Group on Serial Displacement

Community Research Group, NYSPI & Columbia University

Columbia Center for Youth Violence Prevention

Columbia Center on Homelessness Prevention