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Developing Affordable Housing with EB-5The Capstone team worked with McCormack Baron Salazar (MBS), a leading national developer of low- and mixed-income housing, to ascertain the viability of securing funding from the EB-5 immigrant investor program to urban residential development. The EB-5 …
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Japan's Universal and Affordable Health Care: Lessons for the United States?Health care has emerged as perhaps the most urgent issue in America, and health care reform as the most ambitious initiative in domestic policy since the New Deal. Japan, on the other hand, already boasts the world's lowest infant mortality rate and …
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Planning for Opportunity: How Planners Can Expand Access to Affordable Opportunity Bargain AreasAlthough there is strong evidence that living in high-opportunity neighborhoods can improve the long-run educational and economic outcomes of children, translating this into practical advice for planners is difficult. There is little consensus about how …
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Medicaid coverage in substance use disorder treatment after the affordable care actThe Affordable Care Act (ACA) prompted sweeping changes to Medicaid, including expanding insurance coverage to an estimated 12 million previously uninsured Americans, and imposing new parity requirements on benefits for behavioral health services, …
Capstone Projects
Preserving Affordable Housing: Navigating the Acquisition of Expiring Use Properties by Nonprofit Community OrganizationsThe Abyssinian Development Corporation (ADC) is a nonprofit community development organization based in Harlem. This Capstone project provides a policy analysis focused on expiring use, distressed Section 8 properties. The policy analysis and resulting …
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The CBO’s Crystal Ball: How Well Did It Forecast the Effects of the Affordable Care Act?The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a nonpartisan agency of Congress, made official projections of the Affordable Care Act’s impact on insurance coverage rates and the costs of providing subsidies to consumers purchasing health plans in the insurance …
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Still Searching for Social Entrepreneurship: A Clustering Analysis of the Stanford Social Innovation ReviewKeynote Paper, 15th Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference, University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business, November …
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Inequalities in hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in New York City before and after the affordable care actThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law by U.S. President Obama in 2010 and fully implemented in 2014. The ACA expanded health insurance by expanding the Medicaid program, creating health insurance exchanges (now called …
News
NYU Wagner Dean's issue paper for Commonwealth Fund examines CBO's Forecasts about Affordable Care ActThe Commonwealth Fund has just published an issue paper by Sherry Glied, Dean of NYU Wagner, that examines how well the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecast the effects of the Affordable Care Act. The new study is entitled “The CBO’s …
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Study: Market Concentration Has Differing Impact On Affordable Care Act Marketplace PremiumsA new study published by the journal Health Affairs and coauthored by NYU Wagner dean Sherry Glied looks at the growth in health insurance premiums from 2014 to 2015 in two state-based Affordable Care Act Marketplaces: NY State of Health, and Covered …
Capstone Projects
The Tools of Public Action: Cataloguing Government Efforts to Increase the Availability of Affordable Housing in New York"Over the past five decades, there has been an increase in the variety of ""tools of public action"" that the government has at its disposal. Analytic work on the crosscutting and integrated nature of these tools is still relatively nascent in the …
Faculty Profile
Julia Watt-RosenfeldJulia Watt-Rosenfeld has been a community organizer in New York City for 20 years, working to preserve affordable housing, improve schools, prevent displacement of working class BIPOC New Yorkers and, most recently, pass climate legislation. She has …
Faculty Profile
Leon Hovsepian IIILeon Hovsepian is an Adjunct Associate Professor teaching real estate finance in the Urban Planning program. He recently transitioned from the public sector back to the private, going to Omnibuild to help start a new development practice. Already an …
Capstone Projects
Determining the Potential Impact of the Affordable Care Act’s New Models of Care on Healthcare Access and Delivery in Southern New JerseyThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provides healthcare coverage to one out of every three Americans, and it is currently playing a paramount role in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The CMS Region II Office requested a …
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Japan's Universal and Affordable Health Care: Lessons for the United StatesVictor G. Rodwin …
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Using a Down Market to Launch Affordable Housing Acquisition StrategiesIngrid Ellen, Erin Graves, Katherine O’Regan, and Jenny Schuetz …
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Addressing Affordability Challenges: The Role and Scope of Local Housing PlansIngrid Ellen …
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Housing America's Cities: Promising Policy Ideas for Affordable HousingIngrid Gould Ellen …
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Strategies for Increasing Affordable Housing Amid the COVID-19 Economic CrisisThe Brookings Institution. …
Faculty Profile
Laura KavanaghLaura served as the 34th New York City Fire Commissioner, overseeing the nation’s largest fire department—with 17,000 employees, a $2.3 billion budget, and 1.6 million annual 911 calls. She was the first woman to lead the historically male-dominated …
News
Alumni Spotlight: Elizabeth Olsson (MPA-PNP 2011)Elizabeth Olsson (MPA-PNP 2011), director of community grants, Marguerite Casey Foundation Elizabeth is a philanthropic and nonprofit leader whose career has centered on advancing racial equity through systems change, community partnership, and public …
Alumni In Action
Sandra Goldstein“Urban planning and economic development are two of the most stimulating and intellectually satisfying types of work one can do,” says Sandy Goldstein (MS 1998). “And a business improvement district,” she adds, “is an incredible way of helping to create a …
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Seven NYU Wagner Alumni Named to 2025 Brooklyn Power 100 In City & State’s annual homage to the borough’s standouts in business, politics, public service and more, seven NYU Wagner were named to the 2025 Brooklyn Power 100. 19. Randy Peers (MPA 2005), President and CEO, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Peers …