PUB AFF 148
U.S. Housing Policy and Geography of Opportunity
Description: Lecture, three hours. Exploration of contemporary levels of racial inequality through lens of U.S. housing policy. Study includes historical overview of federal policies; evaluation of ways by which living in racially segregated, high-poverty neighborhoods constrain opportunity and social mobility; exploration of most prevalent affordable housing policies; and evaluation of their respective program designs and outcomes. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Spring 2021 - I did not appreciate the white savior mentality and rhetoric through 1- blaming minorities and their communities for staying in their neighborhoods as if there has not been a history of white hostility that continues to exist, 2- blaming Black men for their community’s outcomes when there have been social and institutional barriers that have put Black people in an unequal and constant state of jeopardy and emergency, 3- the continued rhetoric of observing “ghettos” from the outs as a violent, dangerous, and threatening place as if it is not the home and space of many ethnic minorities, 4- referring to Black people as “blacks” continuously which is outdated and offensive, and so many more instances in which I felt ostracized in a class that studied spaces in which I grew up in.
Spring 2021 - I did not appreciate the white savior mentality and rhetoric through 1- blaming minorities and their communities for staying in their neighborhoods as if there has not been a history of white hostility that continues to exist, 2- blaming Black men for their community’s outcomes when there have been social and institutional barriers that have put Black people in an unequal and constant state of jeopardy and emergency, 3- the continued rhetoric of observing “ghettos” from the outs as a violent, dangerous, and threatening place as if it is not the home and space of many ethnic minorities, 4- referring to Black people as “blacks” continuously which is outdated and offensive, and so many more instances in which I felt ostracized in a class that studied spaces in which I grew up in.
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