Recent CHURP Activities
CHURP Leadership Participates in the 2024 annual National HBCU Week Conference
On September 15-16 Drs. Haydar Kurban and Rodney Green participated in this year’s annual National HBCU Week Conference in Philadelphia, PA alongside CHURP collaborator Dr. Musibau A. Shofoluwe from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and Maria L. Milligan from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. On day 2 of the conference, President Biden announced a promise to add $1.3 billion in funding for historically Black colleges and universities.
CHURP Leadership Participates in Freedom and Justice Summer Conference
CHURP was well-represented at the 8th Annual Freedom and Justice Summer Conference, August 1-3, at Spelman College in Atlanta Georgia. The conference was organized by three economics organizations representing Black, Hispanic, and Native American social scientists and activists. Rodney Green, CHURP Associate Director, presented his latest research on police accountability in a session entitled, “Systemic Racism and Its Components”. His research analyzed an original, novel pooled dataset of 30 jurisdictions over 20 years, leading to the finding that US Department of Justice interventions in local police departments failed to reduce police misconduct. Other papers at the session included “The Murder of George Floyd and the Behavior of the Minneapolis Police Department”, “The Economics of the Montgomery Bus Boycott”, and “What Makes Systemic Discrimination ‘Systemic’? Exposing the Amplifiers of Inequity.” Selections from the over 30 papers presented at the conference are available at Freedom & Justice Conference
CHURP Director Haydar Kurban Presents at Urban Institute's "Policies to Expand Equity-Oriented Affordable Housing" Discussion
On June 18, 2024 Haydar Kurban presented at Urban Institute. Urban Institute collaborated with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Policies for Action research program to discuss policies to expand equity-oriented affordable housing. Haydar Kurban presented in panel 2 about CHURP’s Inclusionary Zoning research.
CHURP Leader Participates in Conference Entitled "Reparations from California to DC"
On May 23, 2024, CHURP Associate Director Rodney Green participated in The University of California Washington Center’s conference on reparations. This event feature reparations scholars and activists from California universities to discuss the advances of reparations legislation in California at both the state-wide and local levels. The scholarly examination of reparations is especially relevant to the District of Columbia, which established, on the initiative of Howard University alumnus Councilperson Kenyan McDuffie, a task force on reparations in 2023. The task force will address the racial wealth gap due to centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, land theft, redlining, and discriminatory legislation including the racially discriminatory GI Bill of the 1950s and the 1935 exclusion of agricultural and domestic labor from social security benefits. See a review of the legislation from the DC Fiscal Policy Institute here.
CHURP Director Haydar Kurban Joins the German Marshall Fund's Convening of "Breaking Barriers: Transatlantic Conversations on Housing for All" on May 13, 2024
Dr. Haydar Kurban, Director of CHURP, participated in this conference’s discussion about how cities can support the development of mixed-used, transit-adjacent housing. HUD leaders, including Todd Richardson and Solomon Greene, were instrumental in this project that compared urban development policy approaches in the United States and Germany. The report that served as the foundation for the discussion is available at the German Marshall Fund website: https://www.gmfus.org/news/breaking-barriers-affordable-and-abundant-housing