2022 Dale Prize: Government’s Role in Enabling Markets to Provide Housing that Meets Critical Societal Needs
February 22, 2022
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The Dale Prize recognizes planning excellence, creates dialogue between scholars and practitioners, and enriches the education of planning students. The Dale Prize is awarded in pairs: a $5,000 award to a scholar and a $5,000 award to a practitioner. Awardees spend two days meeting with students in classes and participate in a colloquium and other events.
The 2022 theme is Government’s Role in Enabling Markets to Provide Housing that Meets Critical Societal Needs.
Housing production in California and elsewhere has not met the demand for housing, leading to housing availability and affordability crises. There are many problems: housing supply, the type of units built, unhoused populations, the legacies of redlining and impacts on intergenerational wealth, continued bias in real estate and lending markets, gentrification and displacement, and job/housing/modal availability mismatches. Furthermore, behavioral responses to COVID-19 introduce uncertainty about future locational patterns and desired housing unit characteristics. Among these problems, the 2022 Dale Prize focuses on ways that governments can enable markets to provide housing that meets critical societal needs.
State governments are intervening in local land use authority to ban housing impediments such as single-family zoning and to reduce regulatory burdens, as evidenced in California’s recent legislative and agency actions. Locally, YIMBY movements have gained traction, yet there remains NIMBY resistance to infill development, worries that blunt state measures ignore local conditions, and concerns about displacement and the type of units constructed. The 2022 Dale Prize seeks practitioners and scholars who are analyzing these issues, exploring housing supply innovations, and guiding decisions about ways to increase market production of housing supply to meet the needs of diverse renters and home buyers.
The Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Cal Poly Pomona is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 William R. and June Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban and Regional Planning. Paavo Monkkonen, Ph.D., of the University of California, Los Angeles, has won the Scholar Prize. Ms. Megan Kirkeby, of the California Department of Housing and Community Development, has won the Practitioner Prize.
Practitioner Prize Winner
Ms. Megan Kirkeby
Deputy Director, Housing Policy Development
California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD)\
Megan Kirkeby is the Deputy Director of Housing Policy Development at the California Department of Housing and Community Development, where she has served as Assistant Deputy Director of Fair Housing since 2018 and was a Senior Policy Research Specialist from 2015 to 2018.
Kirkeby held several positions at the California Housing Partnership from 2012 to 2015, including Policy Director and Sustainable Housing Policy Manager. She was a Community Equity Intern at PolicyLink in 2011, analyzing infrastructure disparities in low-income unincorporated communities of color. Kirkeby was also the Policy Associate at the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California from 2008 to 2010. Kirkeby earned a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a concentration in Urban and Regional Planning, and she has an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz in Global Economics.
Scholar Prize Winner
Dr. Paavo Monkkonen
Ph.D., MPP
Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Paavo Monkkonen is Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, where he is currently Director of the Masters Program in Urban and Regional Planning. Paavo studies the ways housing policies and markets shape urbanization and social segregation, and his scholarship ranges in scope from national housing finance programs to local land use regulations. He has studied these topics in Argentina, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, India, and Indonesia, though the majority of his work has focused on California and Mexico.
At UCLA Luskin, Paavo teaches courses on housing markets and policy, zoning, applied microeconomics, research methods, and planning in Latin America. He recently launched the Latin American Cities Initiative, Ciudades, an effort to develop and deepen knowledge networks among students, educators, and professionals in the arena of urban planning and policy in South, Central, and North America.
Paavo completed a Master of Public Policy at the School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a PhD in City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He was previously Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Hong Kong from 2009 to 2012, and visiting scholar at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in 2015.
The Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Cal Poly Pomona seeks nominations for the 2022 William R. and June Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban and Regional Planning.
The Dale Prize seeks a scholar and a practitioner in planning, housing policy, or a related area of expertise to explore these issues with the Urban and Regional Planning students and the rest of the Cal Poly Pomona community. Dale Prize events will be held February 22-24, 2022.
Nominations are due on December 6, 2021.
Nominations Procedure
The prize winners will be selected based on:
- Evidence of substantial knowledge contribution to the field. This includes but is not limited to the quality and quantity of research, research/practice collaborations, impact on the field, and peer recognition.
- Applicability to the theme, Government’s Role in Enabling Markets to Provide Housing that Meets Critical Societal Needs.
- Potential for linking research results to planning theory (scholar).
- Potential for linking practice results to planning practice (practitioner).
The package may be submitted in digital format by email or through a file sharing service. Self-nominations is accepted.
The package should include the following:
Nomination of Scholars
- Nominating Cover Letter
- Name and current affiliation and description of nominee’s contribution to the field
- Narrative justifying the nomination (3 page maximum)
- Nominee’s Curriculum Vitae
- Description and examples of research, publications and/or other contributions to the field. This can include links to internet sites where research or publications can be reviewed.
- Contact information for the nominator
- Contact information for the nominee
- Approval by nominee of the nomination, including a commitment to be available on-line for the full days of February 22-24, 2022.
Nomination of Practitioners
- Nominating Cover Letter
- Name and current affiliation and description of nominee’s contribution to the field
- Narrative justifying the nomination (3 page maximum)
- Resume/Curriculum Vitae/Portfolio
- Description and examples of projects, programs, experience and other contributions to the field. This can include links top internet sites where research or publications can be reviewed.
- Contact information for the nominator
- Contact information for the nominee
- Approval by nominee of the nomination, including a commitment to be available on-line for the full days of February 22-24, 2022.
Submittals should be electronically sent to: urpdept@cpp.edu. Please put 2022 Dale Prize Nomination in the subject line.
Contact
If you have additional questions, please contact:
Dr. Gwen Urey
gurey@cpp.edu
(909) 869-2725