Recent research led by Associate Dean Ryan Allen examines one of the more effective tools for ensuring affordable housing in rural areas, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Section 515 program.
Professor and Associate Dean Ryan Allen and PhD candidate Kimberly Horner co-authored a paper, “Penalties and payoffs: The short‐term economic consequences of human capital acquisition for resettled refugees in the United States,” published in International Migration.
Associate Professor Ryan Allen, along with former Humphrey School Associate Dean Carissa Slotterback, have received the 2022 Best Article in the Journal of Urban Affairs Award for their article, “Building immigrant engagement practice in urban planning: The case of Somali refugees in the Twin Cities.”
Humphrey School researchers are members of three interdisciplinary teams receiving grants from the Human Rights Initiative to pursue projects in the upcoming academic year.
Associate Professor Ryan Allen was appointed as a member of the Presidential Task Force on Anti-Racism within the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP). ACSP President Marlon G. Boarnet established the task force in 2020, "to review all ACSP practices to identify barriers to maintaining a sustained anti-racist focus, with recommendations for institutional changes to overcome those barriers as well as the ways and means of moving forward."
Associate Professor Ryan Allen's report concludes that unauthorized immigrants and their families likely experience a disadvantage in the housing market in the United States.