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Building Justice: How to Undesign the Decades of Racial Redlining that Scar U.S. Cities

We must vehemently reject the basic assumptions of Redlining: that some are inherently more valuable and have more to offer society than others. It will require more than patches or…

Opinion

Building Justice: Segregation in NYC Schools is No Accident

School segregation is also blamed on residential patterns that are themselves seen as organic. In reality, the disparities of class and race profoundly and deliberately shape neighborhoods and schools.

NYCHA Opinion

Building Justice: Racial Stereotypes Shape Perceptions of New York’s Public Housing

The challenges that confront NYCHA today are in large measure the result of changed perceptions of public housing after the system’s one-time white majority fled for the suburbs.

Opinion

Building Justice: NYC’s Sacrifice Zones and the Environmental Legacy of Racial Injustice

‘The primary predictor of where a toxic waste site is located in this country is whether the location is in a community of color. ‘

Opinion

No BackSpace: Clinton and Trump vs. the Truth—Stop & Frisk Isn’t Over

Stop and frisk in the city isn’t over. But you might not know it if you watched national headlines last week.

Health Opinion

Building Justice: Genetic Code, ZIP Code and Housing Code All Affect Health and Equality

Health outcomes–and things that depend on them like school performance–are shaped by housing quality. Housing quality is shaped by segregation. And segregation reflects policies that separated Americans by race.

Opinion

Building Justice: How Segregation Enables Over-Policing of Communities of Color

A long history of de facto segregation in housing has enabled discriminatory and excessive policing of communities of color.

Opinion

CityViews: Housing Programs Must Fight Segregation and Displacement with Different Weapons

In the debate over whether the city’s community preference exacerbates segregation, the author argues what’s really needed is a policy that can distinguish whether a neighborhood’s ethnic stamp is a…

Opinion

Building Justice: The Lasting Racial Stain of the Foreclosure Crisis

While the foreclosure crisis has largely receded from today’s headlines, its impacts continue to reverberate for many families and their communities throughout New York City and nationwide.

Opinion

No Backspace: The Surprising Support for Trump Among New Chinese Immigrants

Newcomers in Chinatown have convinced themselves that the xenophobia stoked by the Republican nominee will distinguish between documented and undocumented immigrants. They are, the author writes, tragically mistaken.

Opinion

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