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2023

Article: Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending at Older Ages: Do Caregiving Arrangements Matter?
January 2023
Esther M. Friedman, Scott R. Beach, & Richard Schulz
Journal of Applied Gerontology
CNN: About 53 million adults in the United States were unpaid family caregivers in 2020, up from 43.5 million in 2015. "Around half of those were caring for a parental figure, said Scott Beach, a social psychologist at the University of Pittsburgh."

2022

Report: State of Aging, Disability, & Family Caregiving in Allegheny County
Released Dec 14th, 2022
By Scott Beach, PhD (UCSUR); Christopher Briem, MPA (UCSUR); Janet Schlarb, MS (UCSUR); Everette James, JD, MBA (HPI); & Meredith Hughes, JD, MBA (HPI) - Funded by the Henry L. Hillman Foundation
Webinar: Pittsburgh's Affordable Housing Crisis: Is Privitization the Solution?
Thursday March 3, 12:00 Noon (Eastern standard time) (Online)

Panel discussion marks the release of a new UCSUR report on the social impacts of Pittsburgh’s economic development policies
(Registration link)

Mayor Gainey’s Transition Team has charged a team of community leaders with the task of generating recommendations for his administration to help make Pittsburgh a city that serves the needs of all of its residents. This new UCSUR report explores how the city’s emphasis on public-private partnerships and other privatization schemes to address housing needs has affected the availability of affordable housing. Authors evaluate the social impacts of such policies and show what has been learned from extensive research on privatization in other cities and countries. Is there a connection between privatization of housing and the long-term decline of the city’s African American population? The report provides an overview of alternative approaches that could better address the affordable housing needs of Pittsburgh residents. The research team will join community leaders who are part of the Mayor’s Transition Team in discussing how this work can inform the new administration.

Panelists:
* Randall Taylor, Penn Plaza Support & Action Coalition
* Daniel McClymonds, Connor Chapman, & Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh

Discussants:
* Monica Ruiz, Executive Director, Casa San Jose & Co-Chair, Gainey Transition Equitable Development Committee
* Jamil Bey, President, Urbankind Institute & Co-Chair, Gainey Transition Infrastructure & Environment Committee

Moderators:
Sabina Deitrick & Chris Briem, University Center for Social and Urban Research

Sponsors:
University of Pittsburgh University Center for Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh Human Rights Working Group, & Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance

Register: here

Download the corresponding report and presentation slides.
March 3^rd Webinar
Pittsburgh's Affordable Housing Crisis: Is Privitization the Solution?
Released Feb. 2022
By Daniel McClymonds, Jackie Smith, PhD, & Connor Chapman (University of Pittsburgh Department of Sociology) with Randall Taylor (Penn Plaza Support & Action Network)

Research Paper by Sabina Deitrick & Christopher Briem
Quality of life and demographic-racial dimensions of differences in most liveable Pittsburgh
Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, 15 (2), 193-209 (2022)
Sabina Deitrick, PhD: Co-editor
When Fracking Comes to Town: Governance, Planning, and the Economic Impacts of the Shale Gas Boom
(Cornell University Press)
Steven D. Manners Research Development Awards:
2022 Announcement
Released January 2022