Janet L. Smith, PhD
Co-Director and Professor
Contact
Building & Room:
CUPPA Hall
Address:
412 S. Peoria Street, Suite 400 (MC 410)
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About
For the past 20 years, Dr. Smith's teaching, research, and community service has focused on equity issues in local and national housing planning and policy. The majority of Dr. Smith's research and outreach activities are conducted in partnership with community organizations and policy stakeholders through the UIC Voorhees Center. She has led several large-scale housing research projects in Chicago including a regional homeless needs assessment and a rental market study funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Along with Larry Bennett and Patricia Wright (former Voorhees director), Smith co-edited and co-authored Where are Poor People to Live? Transforming Public Housing Communities (ME Sharpe 2006). She and John Betancur recently published Claiming Neighborhood: New Ways of Understanding Urban Change (University of Illinois 2016).