GOALS + FOCUS

TO DO

- Get information on real estate trends from past 5-10 years

- Contact and interview real estate agents in the area

- Get information on current real estate situation. Census reports, etc.  - Look at what sort of income an individual needs to have in order to be able to keep his/her house/apartment

 SOCIAL GROUPS TO CONSIDER— IS THE MARKET BIASED?

- Immigrants(especially focusing on documented v. undocumented)

- Race: Whites, A.A.'s, Latino

- Marital status

- Educated v. uneducated and employed v. unemployed

MAJOR FOCUS?

- Look at info on housing/homelessness in CA and U.S. for the past 10 years, and this year

- Look at info on housing /homelessness in San Rafael for past 10 years, and this year

INTERVIEWS— POTENTIAL INTERVIEWEES

- Real estate agents 

- Those in homeless shelters and the people that run those shelters

- Dan Nackerman (Executive Director, County of Marin Housing Authority)

- Next generation scholars

- Ambassadors for hope

- Undocumented immigrant

- Regular people on the street

MARIN ACADEMY JUNIOR PROJECT 2009

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE  

The State of the Bay Junior Capstone Project asks Marin Academy juniors to investigate and evaluate Bay Area communities; its mission is to promote interdisciplinary inquiry and collaboration, to deepen understanding of and connection to our region, and to provide a foundation of knowledge and experience to help MA students become active, responsible citizens who work to create compassionate, sustainable, and equitable communities.  

ECONOMICS GROUP  

Economic Opportunity and Challenge: Explore the economic opportunities and challenges that exist for the residents of the Bay Area. How do race, class, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship, and other socially significant factors play into the landscape here? How economically secure are the people of the Bay Area? How does the local situation compare nationally and globally? Is it even possible to generalize? We read about the "two Americas" - one wealthy and secure, one dispossessed and living on the margins. How does that apply to our region? And what about the shrinking middle class?  

HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS GROUP [WITHIN ECONOMICS]

We are the Marin Academy Junior Project 2009 group for Housing and Homelessness [within Economics], with emphasis on the ways in which the current economic crisis is affecting these two issues in Marin County, CA. Our research is based out of San Rafael, CA, and will extend throughout various cities in the Marin County/San Francisco Bay Area.