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2025 APN & Next Gen | MUST Writing and Dissemination Workshop

Blantyre, Malawi From February 24 to February 27, the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) program of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), in partnership with the Malawi Institute of Science and Technology (MUST), hosted the 2025 APN and Next Gen | MUST Writing and Dissemination Workshop from at the Amaryllis Hotel in Blantyre, Malawi. The workshop brought together the 2024 APN and Next Gen fellows’ cohorts, esteemed facilitators, and distinguished keynote speakers to help enhance fellows’ writing and dissemination capacities. On February 24, Ignasio Jimu, Head of Department for the Department of …

Neighborhood Effects, Housing Mobility, and Place-Based Policies: Evidence from Experiments and Quasi-Experiments

The inaugural lecture in the Council’s 2025 lecture series on government innovation will cover Professor Lawrence Katz’s pathbreaking work with federal and local housing agencies to learn how public housing policy might more effectively support economic opportunity. This lecture will discuss three landmark projects: Moving to Opportunity, enabling residents of public housing to move to lower-poverty neighborhoods; Creating Moves to Opportunity, providing additional support to families considering leaving high-poverty neighborhoods; and HOPE VI revitalization grants, investing in mixed-income developments in neighborhoods with distressed public housing.

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