by lindaoppenheim | Dec 14, 2018 | Article
Minneapolis City Council voted to eliminate single-family zoning, allowing residential structures with up to three dwelling units in every neighborhood, changing government-sanctioned racial housing segregation. While the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1917 that zoning...
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 5, 2018 | Events
Written by Kirsten Greenidge Directed by Chamari White-Mink ’20 In mid-twentieth century America, a black family can only buy the house of their dreams if their name is not on the title. The choices they make in search of a better life still echo fifty years...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 24, 2018 | Article
In Milwaukee, Seattle, and Portland, tours are showing people how federal policies and laws created segregated housing and the black-white wealth gap that continues to this day. Creative solutions can be found. “Portland is also trying new policy: prospective...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 16, 2018 | Conference, Events
On Wednesday, May 16, 2018, Monarch Housing Associates in partnership with Seton Hall University Law School, the Anti-Poverty Network of NJ, and NJ Institute for Social Justice will host a Public Policy Forum on The Color of Law. For more information click here....