Caitlin Vejby studies urban development, and inequality in global cities.  Her work focuses particularly on housing, employment, and service provision in low-income communities and recognizes trends in cities throughout the developed and developing world.

 

Caitlin spent the summer of 2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa working in Maboneng Precinct, a regenerating neighborhood in the inner city.  Over the course of three months, Caitlin built a framework for a neighborhood employment and skills development center that aimed to address the need to make employment opportunities available to unemployed and low-income residents in gentrifying areas.  In addition to her focus on South African cities, much of Caitlin’s work is focused on urban development and inequality in San Francisco and Oakland, the cities she lived and worked in prior to attending graduate school at UCSB, and continues to love.