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Perspectives on Fair Housing: Education
October 22, 2020
5:00 pm
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Event Recap
The fourth panel in the Perspectives on Fair Housing Series, linking fair housing to school access and education investment, featured Ariel Bierbaum, Professor, Urban Studies and Planning, University of Maryland; Akira Drake Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design, and David Stovall, Professor, African-American Studies and Criminology, Law, and Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Rodriguez discussed the link between housing and schools and its place in the ongoing civil rights movement. Her chapter in the book and her research explores the fallacy of choice and the ways in which “school choice and housing choice are offered as an alternative to a dysfunctional state that had short-changed and underserved groups in enduring ways.” Bierbaum offered provocations to how we think about the housing/schools nexus more broadly, the narrative of opportunity and mobility, and the importance of integrating spatial and environmental justice into the conversation. Stovall shared views on housing and education on the ground in Chicago, specifically the impact of COVID-19 on evictions and the exacerbation of the existing digital divide, and how these illustrate the confluence of housing mobility and school segregation.
The group then discussed how to use the FHA to more actively solidify the intrinsic relationship between education and housing before taking questions from the audience.
Full recordings and recaps of each event can be found here.
