The LTSS Center researcher will be affiliated with the Urban Institute’s Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center.
Alisha Sanders, director of housing and services policy research at the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston, has accepted an invitation to become a non-resident fellow at the Urban Institute. Urban is a nonprofit research organization consisting of more than 550 social scientists, economists, communicators, mathematicians, demographers, and data scientists.
The Non-Resident Fellows Program offers opportunities for scholars, policy experts, and practitioners who work outside the Urban Institute to build mutually rewarding partnerships with members of the Urban community. Non-resident fellows actively engage with Urban Institute colleagues who do related work.
Sanders will be affiliated with the Urban Institute’s Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center. She is currently working with Urban researchers on a study of special issues facing older residents in public housing.
The Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center evaluates the effectiveness of federal, state, and local policies that govern urban housing and the programs that use housing as a platform for change. The center works on the ground in cities and neighborhoods to:
- Provide residents with neighborhood indicators that allow them to tackle problems in their own communities.
- Test programs designed to help households and distressed neighborhoods build wealth.
- Build models that help neighborhoods, metropolitan areas, and rural communities imagine and prepare for change.
“I’ve long admired the Urban Institute’s work to inform policies that promote inclusive opportunities for all populations,” says Sanders, “I’m excited to learn from Urban’s team of talented researchers and to share my knowledge with them to help build opportunities for older adults to age successfully in their homes and communities.”