Can Public Housing Overcome Its History of Racial Discrimination and Segregation?
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Wednesday, January 28
Panelists  Derek S. Hyra, community development expert, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, U.S. Treasury Department; author, The New Urban Renewal: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville  Susan J. Popkin, coeditor, Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation; principal research associate, Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center, Urban Institute  Wendell Pritchett, professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School; president, Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation  Lynette Rawlings, coeditor, Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation; research associate, Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center, Urban Institute  Margery Austin Turner, coeditor, Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation; vice president for research, Urban Institute (moderator) For two decades the United States has been reshaping its distressed public housing communities, with three ambitious goals: replace problem-racked developments with healthy mixed-income environments; help residents relocate to safe, affordable housing, often in the private market; and empower former public housing families toward economic self-sufficiency. These efforts have focused on deconcentrating poverty, but not on the underlying role of racial segregation in creating the desperate neighborhoods. The Urban Institute Press invites you to a panel discussion about a new book -- Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation -- that explores the aftermath of racial discrimination and segregation and its implications for poor families and their children. Can public housing policies simultaneously address the problems of poverty and race? If so, how? At the Urban Institute 2100 M Street N.W., 5th Floor, Washington, D.C. Breakfast will be provided at 8:45 a.m. The forum begins promptly at 9:00. Resources: |
