A year into Seattle Public Schools’ lawsuit against social media companies, the case is gaining traction.
More than 50 school districts in Washington state — and dozens more across the country — have
Course | PUBPOL 566
Community Economic Development
Explores the relationship between local community economic development, environmental sustainability, cultural vitality, and trend in regional and national economics, with specific focus on how to make community and economic investments that yield development outcomes that contribute to economic, equitable, environmental, and cultural vitality.Course | PUBPOL 567
Community Engagement and Urban Governance
Investigates interactions between citizen participation and efforts to measure and improve policy and program performance in large cities. Develops analytic frameworks and practical strategies for sustaining and enhancing participation and performance.Course | PUBPOL 570
Foundations of Social Policy
Examines major institutions and programs in social policy including: income maintenance, social services, education, and healthcare. Focuses on American social policy with some attention to comparative welfare state development. Includes extensive discussion of different policy strategies to address social policy problems.News | February 1, 2024
History uncovered: UW research finds thousands of past racial restrictions in Kitsap
Reported in The Kitsap Sun
By Peiyu Lin
It’s not a secret that Kitsap County possesses a history of segregation, where some areas of the peninsula were only allowed to sell or rent to white people in the early …
Course | PUBPOL 564
Housing and Social Policy
Provides an overview of the field of housing policy and its interrelationships with social problems in the United States. Explores various dimensions of housing problems with an emphasis on housing affordability and examines the primary policy tools used to respond to housing problems.Scholar
Jacob L. Vigdor
Visit scholar websiteNews | July 26, 2016
Jeff Shulman and the Seattle Growth Podcast: An Office Hours Visit
Jeff Shulman moved to Seattle a decade ago to begin his career at the University of Washington. In that short time, he’s watched Seattle’s dramatic and ongoing growth transform the city. This former South Lake Union resident has put together
…Scholar
Joaquín Herranz Jr.
Visit scholar websiteScholar
Laura Evans
Visit scholar websiteNews | July 3, 2016
Looking ahead to July, Recapping June
Looking forward into July – Unlikely Allies is coming to Seattle right after July 4th weekend.
Impact Hub Seattle is hosting the Unlikely Allies: Future of Cities Festival in partnership with the Impact Hub Company – the organization that coordinates …
Scholar
Marcia Meyers
Visit scholar websiteNews | February 1, 2024
New nonpartisan AI nonprofit TrueMedia, led by Oren Etzioni, is making a political deepfake detector
Published in GeekWire
By Todd Bishop
A new nonprofit, nonpartisan technology organization called TrueMedia is developing an AI-powered tool to detect deepfake videos, photos, and audio, aiming to combat political disinformation in the leadup to the 2024 elections.
Founded and …
News | April 7, 2016
One Year On, Seattle Explores Impact Of $15 Minimum Wage Law
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with University of Washington Professor Jacob Vigdor about the state of the minimum wage in Seattle, as California and New York move to lift their minimum wages to $15.
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
Now, let’s dig deeper …
Course | PUBPOL 576
Poverty and Anti-Poverty in the United States
Examines the nature and extent of poverty in the United States, its causes and consequences, and the antipoverty effects of public policies.Course | PUBPOL 572
Race and Equity in Policy and Governance
An introduction for understanding race and equity in policy and governance. Power, privilege, and disadvantage are distributed based on race, skin color, and ethnicity. Develop the ability to identify and critique racist or racialized policies and management practices; examine your own experience of race, privilege, and oppression; and learn to use tools for increasing racial equity and inclusion in public, nonprofit, and private sectors.Scholar
Rachel Fyall
Visit scholar websiteNews | December 20, 2016
Reflections on Urban Environmental Justice in a Time of Climate Change
On November 7th and 8th Urban@UW, in collaboration with the University of Washington’s Climate Impacts Group (CIG), hosted a symposium to begin transdisciplinary conversation on the multifaceted dynamics and consequences of Urban Environmental Justice in a Time of Climate Change…
Scholar
Robert Plotnick
Visit scholar websiteScholar
Sara Curran
Visit scholar websiteScholar
Scott W. Allard
Visit scholar websiteNews | May 21, 2016
Seismic Neglect: Buildings and Earthquakes
Seismic Neglect | In the first part of a continuing series, The Seattle Times examined officials’ neglect of the most vulnerable kind of building: old, brick structures called unreinforced masonry. Here are answers to some common questions about those buildings.
…News | February 1, 2024
Should social media pay for addicting kids? Seattle schools lawsuit gains steam
Reported by KUOW
Written by Sami West
Scholar
Stephen Page
Visit scholar websiteCourse | PUBPOL 565
Topics in Urban Affairs
Examines various topics of public importance in urban policy. Integrates the political, managerial, economic, and technical dimensions of these issues.News | February 16, 2024
Transit workers fight drugs on buses and trains
Written by Joseph Gallivan for Axios Oregon
Transit companies are pushing to make it a Class A misdemeanor to use drugs on buses and trains in Oregon.
TriMet, the Oregon Transit Association, and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757 testified yesterday …
News | January 31, 2018
Urban Scholar Highlight: Rachel Fyall
Rachel Fyall is an Assistant Professor in the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, and the Faculty Chair of Urban@UW’s Homelessness Research Initiative. We sat down with her last quarter to discuss her work.
What you do …
News | August 28, 2017
Urban Scholar Highlight: Scott Allard
Scott W. Allard is a Professor of Public Affairs at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. Allard is also on the executive committee of the West Coast Poverty Center and Urban@UW, and an affiliate of the …