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Shinwon Kyung, PhD is a Visiting Fellow of the Metropolitan Housing & Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute. Her principal research interests lie in the field of international comparative housing, urban regeneration and planning and impacts upon community in East Asian and Western countries. Her PhD thesis explored the meaning and use of 'community involvement' as applied by the governments of Britain and South Korea in their policies to improve the circumstances of vulnerable people living in poor quality housing areas. Her recent projects include an examination of the process and causes of urban decline in the UK showing how housing and urban regeneration policy has been developed in the years following the Second World War. The project was funded by Korean government to examine the way in which a number of other advanced countries have developed and implemented housing and urban regeneration programs in the postwar period. The study involved universities in three other countries: Seoul National University (South Korea), Waseda University (Japan), and Columbia University (USA). She is currently investigating how governments in the East and West conceptualize and deliver urban regeneration; examining the capacity of urban regeneration strategies to achieve effective and sustainable improvements to the housing, employment and education and culture opportunities for local people.

Before joining the Urban Institute, Kyung was an Assistant Professor in Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS) at the University of Birmingham in United Kingdom (2006-2009). She completed her PhD in CURS at the University of Birmingham in 2006. Her thesis, "'Community involvement', is it the answer? Perspectives on housing renewal in Britain and Korea", was funded through a British Chevening Scholarship and Barbara MD Smith Scholarship at CURS. Prior to taking up her PhD studentship, Kyung was an Associate Research Fellow at Korea Housing Institute in Seoul, South Korea (1998-2001). She holds an M.A. in Landscape Architecture from Seoul National University, South Korea (1998), and a B.A. in Horticulture Science from Seoul Women's University, South Korea (1996).

SKyung@urban.org

Publications

The multisite Housing Opportunity and Services Together (HOST) demonstration is an ambitious effort to test strategies that use housing as a platform for services to improve the life chances of vulnerable children, youth, and adults. This brief provides an overview of the project's early challenges and successes to offer practitioners insights on the planning and design of "dual generation" interventions and to inform policy supporting comprehensive place-based initiatives.

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