Lance Freeman

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Professor in the Urban Planning Program & the Director of the Doctoral Program in Urban Planning at Columbia University

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Lance Freeman Biography

Lance Freeman is a Professor in the Urban Planning Program and the Director of the doctoral program in Urban Planning at Columbia University in New York City. He is the editor of the journal City & Community. His research focuses on affordable housing, gentrification, ethnic and racial stratification in housing markets, and the relationship between the built environment and well-being. Professor Freeman teaches courses on community development, housing policy and research methods. He has also taught in the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Delaware. Prior to this, Dr. Freeman worked as a researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, a leading social policy research firm in Washington D.C. Dr. Freeman holds a Masters degree and a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dr. Freeman has published several articles in refereed journals on issues related to neighborhood change, urban poverty, housing policy, urban sprawl, the relationship between the built environment and public health and residential segregation. Dr. Freeman is the author of the book "There Goes the Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up" by Temple University Press and "A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black America" by Columbia University Press. Dr. Freeman also obtained extensive experience working with community development groups while working as a Community Development coordinator for the North Carolina Institute of Minority Economic Development and as a Research Associate at the Center for Urban and Regional Studies in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Dr. Freeman also has professional experience working as a City Planner for the New York City Housing Authority, and as a budget analyst for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 01/19/2024.

Lance Freeman Videos

  • Lance Freeman on The Ghetto in Black America
    Black ghetto can be a loaded term. The knee-jerk thought is of a place with rundown housing, high crime rates, family dissolution, unemployment....
  • What Happens When Neighborhoods Gentrify? | The Business of Life
    Lance Freeman discusses the money behind gentrification—what happens when neighborhoods are transformed, & whether you can afford to live there.

Lance Freeman Books

  • A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black America
    A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black America
  • There Goes the 'Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up
    There Goes the 'Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up

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