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Topic: Give Me Shelter: The Housing Question in the United States

Reading:

  1. Against the Commodification of Housing, by David Madden and Peter Marcuse (In Defense of Housing, Verso 2016)

Film:

Poverty, Politics, and Profit

Segregated by Design

Presentation: Edith Huarita, Ph.D. Candidate, Urban Planning and Policy Policy Department

Question:

How is the inseparability of race and housing programs in America linked to the history of segregation that began more than 80 years ago? Explain the governments affordable housing programs and if you believe they are working as they should. If they are not please explain.

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