Advocacy & Diversity
Articles
How a diverse coalition in Portland, OR is centering racial equity in large-scale development project
Since 2018, Project for Public Spaces has been honored [...]
Los Angeles is Ready for Single-Family Zoning Reform
George Floyd’s murder in May expanded this nation’s racial [...]
Does Shared Equity Housing Work?
Shared equity housing strategies are drawing increasing interest from [...]
How State and Local Governments are Responding to the Affordability Crisis
The country is in the midst of a housing [...]
California’s New Law Gives Communities a Chance to Stop the Private Equity Housing Grab
House flipping or investing in rental properties was around [...]
America’s Racist Housing Rules Really Can be Fixed
More than 50 years after passage of the Fair [...]
Structural Racism Explainer Collection
Our history of discriminatory policies and institutional practices has [...]
Placemaking Postcards
Placemaking Postcards is a blog series from the Bass [...]
The Devaluation of Assets in Black Neighborhoods: The case of residential property
Homeownership lies at the heart of the American Dream, [...]
Podcasts
Podcast: A City’s Step Towards Reparations
For decades, the granting of racial reparations in the [...]
Podcast: How the Pandemic Has Exacerbated the Lack of Affordable Housing
Long before COVID-19, there was an affordable housing crisis [...]
Podcast: How One LA Neighborhood Reveals the Racist Architecture of American Homeownership
Property ownership eludes Black Americans more than any other [...]
Podcast: A Little Louder, Episode 10 “Inside HUD’s plan that may threaten mixed-status families”
A Little Louder is a podcast from Texas Housers, [...]
Podcast: Black Homes, Black Cities
Memphis, Baltimore, and Detroit. East Cleveland, Ohio, and Wilkinson, [...]
Readings
Reading: Urban Magic + the Promise of Positive Integration
In Urban Magic – Vibrant Black and Brown Communities Are [...]
Reading: Who Profits from Crisis? Housing Grabs in Times of Recovery
In Los Angeles, and across the United States, the [...]
Videos
Discriminatory Housing Policy Leads to the Devaluation of Black People
Housing is just one area where Black Americans [...]