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Join us for the Architects' Renewal Committee in Harlem (ARCH) @ 60: Bridging Past Visions and Current Reality keynote lecture, "Race, Gentrification and the Financialization of Housing", by Dr. Seumalu Elora Lee Raymond, Director, Ph.D. Program and Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning at Georgia Institute of Technology, and a response from Moses Gates, Vice President for Housing and Neighborhood Planning at the Regional Plan Association.
Dr. Seumalu Elora Raymond is an urban planner and Associate Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning in the College of Design at Georgia Tech. She is interested in the financialization of housing and property in land, displacement and dispossession through housing systems, housing and disasters, and housing justice. Dr. Raymond has explored widening housing wealth inequality following the real estate and financial crises of the 2000s, and the relationship between financialization of rental housing and eviction-led displacement. Dr. Raymond has ongoing projects on housing, displacement and disasters, including work on eviction and migration following disasters.
Moses Gates is Regional Plan Association's Vice President for Housing and Neighborhood Planning, leading the organization’s planning, research and advocacy efforts in affordable housing, economic development, and urban design. He also leads RPA’s efforts to build international partnerships.
Dr. Seumalu Elora Raymond is an urban planner and Associate Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning in the College of Design at Georgia Tech. She is interested in the financialization of housing and property in land, displacement and dispossession through housing systems, housing and disasters, and housing justice. Dr. Raymond has explored widening housing wealth inequality following the real estate and financial crises of the 2000s, and the relationship between financialization of rental housing and eviction-led displacement. Dr. Raymond has ongoing projects on housing, displacement and disasters, including work on eviction and migration following disasters.
Moses Gates is Regional Plan Association's Vice President for Housing and Neighborhood Planning, leading the organization’s planning, research and advocacy efforts in affordable housing, economic development, and urban design. He also leads RPA’s efforts to build international partnerships.
Since joining RPA in 2016, Moses has led RPA’s recommendations on affordability, economic development, and livable neighborhoods for the Fourth Regional Plan and authored or overseen several reports on housing policy and neighborhood planning. Prior to joining RPA, Moses was director of planning and community development for the Association for Neighborhood Housing Development, where he initiated New York City’s first Community Development Fellowship program. He has a master’s of urban planning from Hunter College, a bachelor’s in history from the University of Wisconsin, and is the author of the memoir “Hidden Cities” (Tarcher/Perigee 2013).
