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Subprime Housing Crisis: Interdisciplinary Policy Perspectives

Posted Sep 25 2008

National symposium on October 10 & 11, 2008, organized by the University of Iowa's Public Policy Center. The symposium responds to the urgent need for well-formulated policies to address the home foreclosure crisis.

This two-day event features several nationally-acclaimed speakers from diverse academic fields, government agencies, financial institutions and non-profit entities. The sessions are geared towards providing a deeper, comprehensive understanding of the causes and consequences of the foreclosure crisis using information from multiple perspectives. Several presenters will critique past policy interventions, discuss new and emerging policy measures at local, state and federal levels, and share best practices.

Dates
October 10 & 11, 2008

Location
hotelVetro in downtown Iowa City
See http://www.hotelvetro.com

Information on sessions, speakers and registration
See http://ppc.uiowa.edu/subprimesymposium

Contact
Jerry Anthony, Ph.D., AICP
Associate Professor
Graduate Program in Urban & Regional Planning
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA - 52242.
email: jerry-anthony@uiowa.edu
phone: (319) 335-0622

Note: The event has been approved for eight hours of Continuing Legal Education credit.

SOURCE: University of Iowa's Public Policy Center