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No BackSpace: IDNYC Fiasco Shows Undocumented Immigrants Can’t Trust the City

This op-ed argues: ‘With Trumpmageddon looming, undocumented immigrants may have very learned the hard way that government, whether local or federal, liberal or conservative, may never be able provide them…

Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Podcast: Redlining, Racial Politics and the Way Forward in Trump’s America

We wrap up our ‘Building Justice’ series with a discussion about how to talk about the legacy of a racist policy, and what to do to address it in the…

Land Use and Development Opinion

CityViews: How Safe is the City, Through Young Eyes?

A class of high-school students wrestles with the tension between facts and perceptions when it comes to how safe New York City really is.

Opinion

Op-Ed: Rejecting the East Harlem ‘Community’ Plan

Not everyone in the East Harlem neighborhood feels they were part of crafting the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan, which welcomes development that many distrust.

Opinion

Building Justice: How to Talk About Racial Equality in a Way That Gets it Done

‘We first need to understand why our current messaging strategies have failed to win the day.’

Opinion

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.

Opinion

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