Danielle Baez

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About Danielle Baez

Community-based planner, policy advocate, and urban designer focused on innovative housing solutions, equitable disaster recovery, and climate change adaptation. My work emphasizes the tension between housing, inequality, and disaster recovery. In my policy and planning practice I focus on spatial analysis, feasibility studies, and deep stakeholder engagement to help communities plan for themselves in the face of overlapping crises and historic marginalization. Guided by the principle of working together in solidarity and mutuality, my work explores urban planning processes that support and buoy those who are already doing the on-the-ground planning for their own communities. I am interested in the decentralization of power, institutions and planning processes — and its impact on social, economic, and environmental transformation towards equity and justice. Since receiving my Master's my work has shifted to focus on addressing the stages of disaster planning, creating projects that address underlying inequities and strengthen communities instead of continuing to repeat cycles of dispossession and extraction. My thesis work focuses on addressing the ongoing NYC housing and migrant crisis through the use of modular housing as a strategy to catalyze the conversion of publicly owned vacant land to deeply affordable permanent housing. My website is currently under construction, so please drop me a message if you’d like to collaborate or see more current samples of my Reach me at Danielle.D.Baez@gmail.com