{"255801":{"#nid":"255801","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Jesse Zaro-Moore (MCRP Class of \u002714) Wins Edward McClure Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech graduate student Jesse Zaro-Moore (MCRP Class of \u002714) has been awarded the 2013 Edward McClure Award for the best master\u0027s student paper in urban and regional planning from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP). Zaro-Moore\u0027s paper, \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/smartech.gatech.edu\/handle\/1853\/49765\u0022\u003ENotes from the field on NSP1, NSP2, and NSP3: Policy Alternatives for Mitigating the Effects of Foreclosed and Abandoned Properties on Neighborhoods\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0022 was prepared in Professor Dan Immergluck\u0027s course on government and housing markets. Zaro-Moore is the third Georgia Tech student to receive the distinguished award over its\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.acsp.org\/awards\/history\u0022\u003E27 year history\u003C\/a\u003E. Alumnus Stan Fitterman (MCRP \u002788) and Troels Adrian (MCRP \u002710) received the McClure award for\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/smartech.gatech.edu\/handle\/1853\/20844\u0022\u003EMortgage redlining in metropolitan Atlanta\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/smartech.gatech.edu\/handle\/1853\/35793\u0022\u003EFunding Supportive Housing in Georgia\u003C\/a\u003E, respectively.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZaro-Moore\u0027s winning paper was completed for a policy analysis assignment in which students were asked to develop a framework for analyzing a planning policy and to evaluate the impact of the policy based on the framework. The policy chosen by Zaro-Moore, the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP), began in 2008 under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in cooperation with the federal government\u0027s stimulus plan. At that time, Zaro-Moore worked for a HUD grantee in Macon, Georgia, where he witnessed first-hand the benefits and limitations of the program through its first iteration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough this experience, Zaro-Moore noticed that the highly charged political environment surrounding the administration of the NSP created barriers to responding to stakeholder feedback. Through a carefully constructed policy evaluation matrix that incorporated administrative operability, equity, political viability, community benefits, sustainability, affordability, and risk, the three iterations of the program were analyzed to draw lessons for potential future iterations. Zaro-Moore found that the program, designed to rehabilitate and sell homes to qualified applicants, had to walk a tight line between meeting a need for affordable housing and avoiding a\u0026nbsp;backslide into market conditions experienced during the most recent recession due to a lack of middle income housing. Recommendations developed through his examination of Macon\u0027s locally-minded tailoring of the NSP include the removal of Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) as a vehicle to deliver stimulus funds in order to create a less constricted policy and the need to distinguish more clearly between neighborhood stabilization and neighborhood revitalization to more effectively define program objectives and provide increased flexibility in applying funds to locally defined problems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile the 2013 award was announced at the ACSP Administrator\u2019s Conference, November 14-17, Zaro-Moore will be presented the award in the fall of 2014. The award recognizes superior scholarship in a paper prepared by a master\u2019s student in an ACSP-member school, and submissions may address any topic of investigation generated in city planning-related coursework. Zaro-Moore plans to present his paper at the 2014 ACSP Annual Conference.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech graduate city and regional planning student Jesse Zaro-Moore (MCRP Class of \u002714) has been awarded the 2013 Edward McClure Award for the best master\u0027s student paper in urban and regional planning from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP).\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27714","created_gmt":"2013-11-19 07:52:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:22","author":"Kyle James","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-11-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-11-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"255791":{"id":"255791","type":"image","title":"Jesse Zaro-Moore","body":null,"created":"1449243846","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:44:06","changed":"1475894936","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:56","alt":"Jesse Zaro-Moore","file":{"fid":"198220","name":"moore.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/moore_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/moore_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":60131,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/moore_0.jpg?itok=kq5QfNUA"}}},"media_ids":["255791"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"10738","name":"georgia planning association"},{"id":"21211","name":"gpa"},{"id":"80401","name":"jesse zaro-moore"},{"id":"80411","name":"mcclure award"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}