The fight for fair and affordable housing has new momentum in one of the nation’s most segregated metropolitan areas.
Developments in the Fight for Fair, Affordable Housing in the St. Louis Region
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Content related to Facing Segregation: Housing Policy Solutions for a Stronger Society, edited by Molly W. Metzger and Henry S. Webber (Oxford University Press, 2018)
The fight for fair and affordable housing has new momentum in one of the nation’s most segregated metropolitan areas.
Tate, W. F., IV. (2019, August). Who will help children? Building brain regimes (CSD Perspective No. 19-30). St. Louis, MO: Washington University, Center for Social Development. https://doi.org/10.7936/362f-yk84
Webber, H. S. (2019, May). Segregation and a path forward to inclusion in St. Louis (CSD Perspective No. 19-25). St. Louis, MO: Washington University, Center for Social Development. https://doi.org/10.7936/1s4r-0929
Assistant Professsor Molly Metzger, faculty director of Thriving Communities at the Center for Social Development, discusses three myths about the causes of segregation during the keynote speech at the 2019 Fair Housing Conference.
April 12, 2019, 8:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Central Baptist Church, 2842 Washington Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63103
Washington University’s Molly Metzger and Hank Webber took to the airwaves on April 9 to discuss segregation.
Fifty years after the passage of the Fair Housing and Civil Rights Acts, a new book ̶ “Facing Segregation: Housing Policy Solutions for a Stronger Society” brings together influential scholars, practitioners and policy analysts to reflect on how to use public policy to reduce segregation.
Metzger, M. W., & Webber, H. S. (Eds.). (2018). Facing segregation: Housing policy solutions for a stronger society. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Sherraden, M. (2018). Foreword. In M. W. Metzger & H. S. Webber (Eds.), Facing segregation: Housing policy solutions for a stronger society (pp. ix–xi). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Warning that “we are going to see many more Fergusons in this country,” Richard Rothstein recounts the history of government’s role in racial segregation, in a video created for our event “Inclusive Housing: A Public Forum for Policy Action in St. Louis.”
Despite the passage of the Fair Housing Act in 1968, stark racial and economic segregation in housing continues. On Oct. 22, the Center for Social Development and the Clark-Fox Policy Institute hosted “Inclusive Housing: A Public Forum for Policy Action in St. Louis.”
Date: October 22, 2015, Clark-Fox Forum, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis