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will feature a keynote address and opening session, "Gentrification, Displacement, and Housing Instability: Successful Strategies and Tools to Sustain Neighborhood Diversity," delivered by Vicki L. Been, Boxer Family Professor of Law at the NYU School of Law and faculty director of the NYU Furman Center.
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department's former commissioner, Vicki Been
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