Dr. Neal Richman has twenty years of experience
in affordable housing management and development, contributing
to the rehabilitation and construction of more than one
thousand dwelling units in Southern California. His development
work has relied on expanding resident-controlled housing
and broadening opportunities for ownership by lower income
households.
Currently, as the associate director of UCLA Advanced
Policy Institute, he has been exploring the use
of new information and communication technologies
to support grassroots community development activities.
He is the director of Neighborhood
Knowledge Los Angeles (NKLA), which provides
access to a searchable database that provides information
on property tax delinquencies, code violations, and
other city and country data. In partnership with
the Southern California Association of Governments,
Dr. Richman has also been conducting training programs
for government officials, and representatives of
private industry on how new technologies will reshape
urban development and finance.
He received a doctoral degree for his cross-national
research on housing provision from the Department of
Development and Planning at the University of Aalborg
in Denmark where he sometimes teaches a module in planning
theory. He received his Master's Degree in Urban Planning
from UCLA in 1982.
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