Fair Housing

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  10/26/2020
  

  Two Visions of the Suburbs Are on the Ballot. Both Are Myths

  While Donald Trump imagines American suburbia as affluent, homogenous and imperiled by liberal housing policies, Joe Biden ignores the fact that separate suburban municipalities work to segregate Americans by race and class and perpetuate different levels of access to opportunity.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/8/2020
  

  Covid-19 Has Exposed The Consequences Of Decades Of Bad Public Housing Policy

  by Gillet Gardner Rosenblith

  Poor and economically precarious Americans are at risk of eviction in the COVID-19 crisis because American policymakers have spent decades rejecting a public role in providing decent housing outside of the market system. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/3/2020
  

  How Trump Is Using Westchester to Stir Up Suburban Fears

  The bitter history of a federal lawsuit demanding that Yonkers, NY create low-income housing (which would allow more nonwhite residents to live in the city) informs Donald Trump's campaign pledges to protect the suburbs from evils he associates with fair housing laws. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  7/30/2020
  

  What Does Trump Think the ‘Suburban Lifestyle Dream’ Means?

  In his ongoing campaign to paint racial desegregation as a bid to “abolish the suburbs,” the president is pushing a vision of suburban voters based on a dated demographic reality. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/30/2020
  

  Why Trump’s Blunt Appeals to Suburban Voters May Not Work

  “[Nixon's campaigns] understood something about race that Trump doesn’t understand,” [Matthew] Lassiter said. “Voters don’t want racial privilege challenged, but they don’t want to be explicitly reminded that racism is underneath their position.”

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/8/2020
  

  Why Romney Marched

  Former Michigan Governor George Romney practiced a commitment to civil rights and fair housing even at political cost.