Lab receives grant for community-engaged Deliberative Polling project in San José
Funding awarded through Stanford’s Office of Community Engagement Community Impact Projects program
Collaborators: Co-PIs Ashish Goel (Management Science & Engineering), Rishee Jain (Civil & Environmental Engineering), Alice Siu (Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies), and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi (Earth Systems Science).
The Billington Lab, in collaboration with Stanford’s Deliberative Democracy Lab, is launching a community-engaged Deliberative Polling® initiative with the City of San José Housing Department. Funding awarded through Stanford’s Office of Community Engagement will support conducting a Deliberative Poll with San José residents. Participants will engage in small-group discussions and dialogue with experts to develop informed perspectives on the development of interim housing in San José. The process will measure how public perceptions and opinions shift through deliberation, generating insights the City can use to inform housing and homelessness planning and decision-making.
This work builds on the Billington Lab’s ongoing partnership with the City of San José and contributes to broader efforts to strengthen civic participation and support inclusive, evidence-based policy development.