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Karna Wong

UCI School of Social Ecology

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REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (author)

Wong, Karna. (2018). Surviving the Great Recession: Nonprofit Housing Developers Through the Lens of Organizational Theory. Housing Policy Debate, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2018.1429480

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (co-author)

Lee, C. Aujean, Karna Wong, and Deirdre Pfeiffer. (2017). “On the Front Lines of Immigrant Homeownership: Asian American Nonprofits during the Great Recession,” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0899764017713726

Pfeiffer, Deirdre, Karna Wong, Paul Ong, and Melany De La Cruz-Viesca. (2016). “Ethnically bounded homeownership: qualitative insights on Los Angeles immigrant homeowners’ experiences during the US Great Recession.” Housing Studies, 1-17.  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02673037.2016.1208159

Flores, Nina and Karna Wong. (2015). “Protecting the Rights of Massage Parlor Workers.” UCLA Center for the Study of Women Policy Brief.  https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2pc1s3hr#main

OTHER PUBLICATIONS (author or co-author)

Wong, Karna, Paul M. Ong, Silvia R. Gonzalez (2002, Aug. 27). Systemic Racial Inequality and the COVID-19 Homeowner Crisis. UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge, UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate, and Ong & Associates. Click here to view.

Wong, Karna, Paul Ong, Wenjuan Zheng (2016). “American Philanthropy Literature Review.” UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge Global Chinese Philanthropy Initiative. Click here to view.

Zheng, Wenjuan, Paul Ong, Karna Wong (2016). “Contemporary Chinese Philanthropy Literature Review.” UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge Global Chinese Philanthropy Initiative. Click here to view.

Zheng, Wenjuan, Paul Ong, Alycia Cheng, Karna Wong (2016). “Comparative Literature Review: Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan.” UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge Global Chinese Philanthropy Initiative. Click here to view.

Wong, Karna. (2015). “The Housing Crisis and the Third Sector.” Dissertation submitted for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in urban planning at UCLA. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sz1t2zk

Pfeiffer, Deirdre, Karna Wong, Paul Ong, and Melany De La Cruz-Viesca. (2014). “Pathways to Trouble: Homeowners and the Foreclosure Crisis in Los Angeles Ethnic Communities” for the Ford Foundation’s Building Economic Security Over a Lifetime Initiative (BESOL). Click here to view.

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Karna Wong
School of Social Ecology
University of California Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
karna.wong@uci.edu

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