Michael
E. Stone
Ph.D.,
Astrophysics, Princeton University
Professor,
Community Planning
Office:
W-4-144-18
Phone
number: 617-287-7264
Michael.Stone@umb.edu
At
the College of Public and Community Service, Professor Stone's
primary responsibility has been in Community Planning, but his
teaching has spanned most components of the curriculum. For example,
he has played a leading role in teaching to Understanding Arguments
and Community Portraits in the Core portion of the curriculum.
He has also been active in providing support to students in basic
communication skills, quantitative reasoning and computers. In
addition, he helped to initiate the use of collaborative community
projects as a learning experience for students.
For
more than 30 years Professor Stone has been involved in research,
policy analysis, program development, technical assistance and
advocacy on housing, living standards and participatory planning.
He works with local community groups, city and state agencies,
and national advocacy organizations. He is the author of over
40 reports, articles and chapters and 4 books. His book Shelter
Poverty: New Ideas on Housing Affordability has been called
“the definitive book on housing and social justice in the United
States.” His co-edited book,
A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New
Social Agenda, in which he also has three solely-authored
chapters, was published by Temple University Press in February
2006. Some of the reviews of the book are as follows:
" Rachel
Bratt, Michael Stone and Chester Hartman have organized a cogent
argument for a right to housing undergirded by the integrity
of persuasive research. They have put forward a housing agenda
that relies on sound facts and indisputable logic—never forgetting
their passion for social justice."
— Nicolas P. Retsinas, Director,
Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University
"Bratt,
Stone and Hartman have assembled an impressive volume of persuasive
arguments and ideas for how to make U.S. housing policy more
equitable, efficient and effective, and to set U.S. policy in
the direction of a right to housing. A Right to Housing
makes a valuable contribution to the literature of
American social policy and to the progressive housing movement."
— Sheila Crowley, President,
National Low Income Housing Coalition
"A
landmark in progressive housing thought, this book is also a
worthy American contribution to the global debate about social
and economic rights and the adequacy of market-driven public
policy. A must-read for all who care about economic inequality
and the ongoing but largely overlooked housing crisis facing
low-income people."
— Xavier de Souza Briggs,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and editor of The
Geography of Opportunity
"
A Right to Housing presents a compelling
case for renewing this nation's commitment to ensuring decent,
affordable housing for every American. This book includes thought-provoking
and in-depth suggestions for achieving both real and lasting
change."
— Conrad Egan, President and
CEO of the National Housing Conference, and former Executive
Director of the bipartisan Congressionally-appointed Millennial
Housing Commission
There
are four major facets to Professor Stone's research and professional
work: first, housing affordability, as defined and measured through
his concept of “shelter poverty,” with emphasis on households
headed by persons of color, women and elderly; second, the political
economy of housing in the U.S., with particular attention to the
structure and dynamics of the housing finance system; third, housing
policy, on the various contours of housing policy in the U.S.,
but with increasing focus on models of social ownership – housing
outside of the speculative market under various forms of resident
and community control; fourth, collaborative action research with
community organizations on issues of housing, income support,
homelessness, and community change.
During
2002-2003, Professor Professor Stone spent 10 months in Britain
as an Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy. Based at the Centre for
Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, University of
London, he studied Shelter Poverty and Social Housing in the UK
through the lens of his work on these issues in the US . One of
the papers from this project is available at: http://www.cpcs.umb.edu/users/mstone/Stone-UK_Soc_Housing_Oct03.pdf
Recent Publications:
Unaffordable “Affordable” Housing: Definitions and Choices of Data Affect People’s Lives. CSP Brief. #2009-1. Center for Social Policy, UMass Boston. March 20009.
Housing and the Financial Crisis: What happened and what to do about it. 2009. Human Geography. 2:1.
A
Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda.
2006. Philadelphia:
Temple University
Press. (co-edited with Rachel
Bratt and Chester
Hartman).
Housing Affordability for Households of Color in Massachusetts. 2006. Boston: Gaston Institute, Institute for Asian-American Studies, and Trotter Institute, University of Massachusetts
Housing
Affordability: One-Third of a Nation Shelter Poor. 2006. In A
Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda,
ed. Rachel Bratt,
Michael E. Stone
and Chester
Hartman. Philadelphia:
Temple University
Press.
Pernicious
Problems of Housing Finance.
2006. In A Right to Housing: Foundation
for a New Social Agenda, ed. Rachel Bratt, Michael
E. Stone and Chester Hartman. Philadelphia: Temple University
Press.
Social
Ownership. 2006. In A Right to Housing:
Foundation for a New Social Agenda, ed. Rachel
Bratt, Michael
E. Stone and Chester
Hartman.
Philadelphia:
Temple University
Press.
Latino
Shelter Poverty in Massachusetts.
2006. In Latinos in New
England,
ed. Andres
Torres. Philadelphia:
Temple University
Press.
A
Housing Affordability Standard for the UK. 2006. Housing
Studies 21:4.
What
is Housing Affordability? The Case for the Residual Income
Approach. 2006. Housing Policy Debate
17:1.
Shelter
Poverty and Social Housing in the UK and US. 2003. London:
Atlantic Fellowships in Public Policy, the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office.
Latino
Shelter Poverty in Massachusetts and Metro Boston. 2002.
Boston: Mauricio Gaston Institute for Latino Community Development
and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Boston.
Situation
Critical: Meeting the Housing Needs of Lower-Income Massachusetts
Residents. 2000. Boston: Center for Social Policy, McCormack
Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston , September (with
Elaine Werby and Donna Haig Friedman).
Housing Affordability and Social Change. 1993. Chapter 11 in Shelter Poverty: New Ideas on Housing Affordability., Michael E. Stone. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Evaluates
the following competencies:
- Community
Needs and Resource Analysis
- Community
Portraits
- Planning
Models and Theories
- Community
Impact Assessment
- Strategy
Proposal Development I and II
