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Welcome to NYC School of Data — a community conference that demystifies the policies and practices around open data, technology, and service design. This year’s conference concludes NYC’s Open Data Week & features 30+ sessions organized by NYC’s civic technology, data, and design community! Our conversations and workshops will feed your mind and inspire you to improve your neighborhood.

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Defending Affordable & Stable Housing: Progress and Problems
Saturday March 29, 2025 2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT
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In this multi-specialist panel, doctoral students from the CUNY Graduate Center will discuss how access to, and the experience of, long-term housing in NYC has changed as a result of open data sources available in the city.

This will include a presentation by Sam O'Hana, doctoral candidate in English and Advising Fellow in Data Analysis and Visualization, who will discuss the publicly-available repositories of information (DHCR, HPD, DOB, DOF) that are necessary to challenge illegal deregulation of rent stabilized apartments in the city. He will share updates from a pending lawsuit against his landlord in the NYS Supreme Court.

We will also hear from Ian Williams, MSW, a doctoral student in Social Work with a background as a social worker involved in issues surrounding tenancy, governance structures and open source digital resources.

The third panelist will be Holden Taylor, doctoral candidate in English and Organizer for the Brooklyn Eviction Defense Tenant Union, who will present work relevant to his dissertation on the issue of housing, including the use of open data for tenant organizing.
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avatar for Ian G. WIlliams

Ian G. WIlliams

Doctoral Student, PhD Program in Social Welfare, CUNY Graduate Center
Ian G. Williams, LMSW is a student in the Ph.D. Program in Social Welfare at the CUNY Graduate Center, Ian is a Program Social Media Fellow with the Graduate Center Digital Initiatives and was a HASTAC Scholar from 2022-2024. Ian researches the intersections of technology, human service... Read More →
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Saturday March 29, 2025 2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT
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