HOMELESSNESS & HOUSING INSECURITY
I have written extensively about the population in Seattle experiencing homelessness. My Master’s thesis, An Asset Based Approach to Housing and Homelessness: A Phenomenological Case Study, critiques capitalism and the market rate approach to housing, while quantifying the responses to homelessness in Seattle from the non-profit, government, and faith-based sectors. I worked with the Seattle based non-profit, Facing Homelessness, to assess their approach to community based housing and developed a framework for infill housing that is not reliant on market pressures called an asset based approach to housing. What is the goal of a city if not to serve everyone who calls it home?
I have written extensively about the population in Seattle experiencing homelessness. My Master’s thesis, An Asset Based Approach to Housing and Homelessness: A Phenomenological Case Study, critiques capitalism and the market rate approach to housing, while quantifying the responses to homelessness in Seattle from the non-profit, government, and faith-based sectors. I worked with the Seattle based non-profit, Facing Homelessness, to assess their approach to community based housing and developed a framework for infill housing that is not reliant on market pressures called an asset based approach to housing. What is the goal of a city if not to serve everyone who calls it home?
CORRIDOR DESIGN & MICRO MOBILITY
My work with the City of Seattle, in SDOT’s Street Use Division, is focused on facilitating public right-of-way improvements provided by private development. I work at multiple scales, coordinating development parcel by parcel to achieve a broader corridor design prioritizing non-motorized mobility and city sponsored modal plans. Aside from code required frontage improvements, I work with developers, architects, and engineers to help them maximize the public benefit of their proposed development.
PUBLIC REALM INTERVENTIONS & PEDESTRIAN SCALE PLANNING
My academic and professional experiences center both policy and physical interventions on public space to encourage a more granular and dynamic urban fabric. I have worked in Tacoma's Hilltop neighborhood to re-imagine a largely vacant commercial corridor, Seattle's Chinatown International District to study how historic preservation can balance the tensions to equity and economic pressure to redevelop, and Seattle's Mt. Baker neighborhood to leverage affordable retail space as an anti-gentrification tool. Each intervention is informed by local contexts and needs.
My academic and professional experiences center both policy and physical interventions on public space to encourage a more granular and dynamic urban fabric. I have worked in Tacoma's Hilltop neighborhood to re-imagine a largely vacant commercial corridor, Seattle's Chinatown International District to study how historic preservation can balance the tensions to equity and economic pressure to redevelop, and Seattle's Mt. Baker neighborhood to leverage affordable retail space as an anti-gentrification tool. Each intervention is informed by local contexts and needs.
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