| Edward G. Goetz elected president of the Urban Affairs Association  Edward
G. Goetz was elected president of the Urban
Affairs Association (UAA) at its annual meeting in April. This will be Goetz¿s
second term leading UAA, the international professional organization for urban
scholars, researchers, and public service providers.
Goetz, professor and chair of the Policy and Planning area at the Humphrey
Institute, joined the University of Minnesota in 1988. He specializes in housing
and local community development planning and policy. His research focuses on
issues of race and poverty and how they affect housing policy planning and development.
Before coming to the Institute, Goetz worked at the mayor¿s Office of Housing
and Economic Development in San Francisco and for several nonprofit community
developers in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He has served on the board of directors
of nonprofit housing agencies in the Twin Cities, and on several regional commissions
related to affordable housing and development. Goetz¿s most recent book
is titled Clearing
the Way: Deconcentrating the Poor in Urban America (Urban Institute
Press, 2003).
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