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Gabriel Cuellar

Assistant Professor of Architecture
Gabriel Cuéllar is an assistant professor in architecture. His design-research focuses on collective landholding practices, housing justice, contemporary environmental politics, and the role of architecture in struggles for spatial justice. He is an ...
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Lan Deng

Professor of Urban Planning
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734-936-0951
Lan Deng is an expert on affordable housing policies and affordable housing finance and has conducted extensive research in this area. Her research spans between the U.S. and China. In the U.S., Deng is a leading scholar in the research on the Low-In...
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Margaret Dewar

Professor Emerita of Urban Planning, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
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734-763-2528
Margaret Dewar’s research is in the broad areas of economic development, housing and community development, urban environmental planning and urban land use. Her current projects address remaking cities following abandonment and strengthening deterior...
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Robert Goodspeed

Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning
Robert Goodspeed is an associate professor of urban planning. He teaches in the areas of geographic information systems (GIS), collaborative planning, and scenario planning theory and methods. His research investigates how new information technologie...
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Carina Gronlund

Research Associate Professor, Institute for Social Research and School of Public Health
Carina Gronlund is an environmental epidemiologist and research associate professor at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research and the School of Public Health. With community and government partners, she characterizes how social, eco...
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Noura Insolera

Assistant Research Scientist at Institute for Social Research, Assistant Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Noura Insolera is an assistant research scientist at the Institute for Social Research and assistant director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Insolera's research focuses on health, educational, and socioeconomic outcomes of income inequality a...
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Joe LaBriola

Joe LaBriola is a research assistant professor at the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center, where he is faculty at the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics. His research examines the roots of social stratification in the contemporary Unite...
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Roshanak Mehdipanah

Associate Professor of Health Behavior and Health Equity; Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
Roshanak Mehdipanah specializes in innovative research methods, including realist evaluations and concept mapping to develop conceptual frameworks linking complex interventions to health. She has published in the areas of urban renewal, housing and p...
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Jeffrey Morenoff

Professor of Public Policy; Professor of Sociology; Research Professor, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research; Associate Dean for Research and Policy Engagement
Jeffrey Morenoff is a Professor in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the Department of Sociology, and Research Professor in the Population Studies Center and Survey Research Center. He also serves as Associate Dean for Research and Polic...
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Trina Shanks

Director, School of Social Work Community Engagement; Harol R. Johnson Collegiate Professor of Social Work; and Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Trina Shanks' research interests include the impact of poverty and wealth on child well-being; asset-building policy and practice across the life cycle; and community and economic development. She has been a research investigator for the Saving for E...
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Wonyoung So

Assistant Professor of Urban Technology, Director of the Reparative Technology Lab
Wonyoung So is an assistant professor of urban technology and director of the Reparative Technology Lab. He works at the intersection of urban planning, critical data studies, and data visualization to study how access to resources and opportunities ...
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Staff

Leonymae Aumentado

Senior Project Manager
Leonymae Aumentado is a senior project manager at Poverty Solutions, where she supports various research and strategic projects, including the Guaranteed Income to Grow Ann Arbor pilot program and the Detroit Home Repair Resource Guide and lead-safe ...
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Francisco Brady

Data and Policy Analyst
Francisco Brady is a data and policy analyst, working primarily on housing stability projects. Francisco has contributed to research on housing instability and homelessness in Chicago, several basic income pilots, and creating estimates of eligible p...
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Jennifer Erb-Downward

Director of Housing Stability Programs and Policy Initiatives
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734-764-5435
Jennifer Erb-Downward is the director of housing stability programs and policy initiatives at Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan. Her work focuses on the intersection of housing, health, and education with an emphasis on cross-system col...
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Amanda Nothaft

Director of Data & Analysis
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Amanda Nothaft has extensive experience in data analysis and policy evaluation and has worked across multiple levels of government and a wide variety of policy stakeholders. Prior to joining Poverty Solutions, Nothaft worked on projects as diverse as...
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Sam Stragand

Senior Program Manager, Detroit Partnership on Economic Mobility
Sam Stragand is the senior program manager for the Detroit Partnership on Economic Mobility at Poverty Solutions, where he works with community partners to conduct research and evaluation projects in Detroit. Prior to joining Poverty Solutions, Strag...
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In the Media

Three generations, one roof, and a new American dream

May 17, 2026 Business Insider
In many cultures around the world, multigenerational households — in which grandparents, parents, and grandchildren live under one roof — are a way of life. Though American culture has long prized independence and individualism, many families in the ...
Natasha Pilkauskas