Joint Center for Housing Studies Announces Fellows, Prize Winners

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June 17, 1999

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The recipients of Harvard's 1999 Housing Awards have recently been announced by the Joint Center for Housing Studies. The Center has named a summer dissertation fellow and two prizewinners for the best paper on housing and the best housing design. Yurika Nishioka, a Ph.D. candidate of the School of Public Health, is the recipient of the 1999 summer dissertation fellowship. She will receive an award of $2,500 to support her work on "Energy and CO2 Impacts Assessments of Factory-Built Homes and Conventional Homes Comparison Between Hokkaido, Japan, and the Boston Area."

Two prizes of $100 were awarded for the best paper on housing and the best housing design. The recipient of the prize for the best paper was Sameh Wahba, a Ph.D. candidate in urban planning at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Design, for his paper on "Successful Initiatives in Developing Countries to Enable the Poor Access to Affordable Housing in Urban Areas with High Land Cost: Lessons and Limitations." The recipient of the prize for the best design on housing was Randa Ghattas, a 1999 master of architecture graduate of the Graduate School of Design, for her design "Permanent Temporariness: Palestinian Refugee Housing."

In addition, the Joint Center for Housing Studies and the NeighborWorks Network of the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation named the two recipients of the inaugural Emerging Leaders in Community and Economic Development Fellowship program. Each fellow will develop an analytical project based on 10 weeks of on-site experience in the NeighborWorks Campaign for Home Ownership 2002 and the NeighborWorks Multifamily Initiative.

The fellows are Katherine D. Collignon, a student for the master of public policy and urban planning at the Kennedy School of Government, and Deborah N. Goldstein, a law student at the Law School.