Redlined Forever: The Racist Past of Today's Land Use Regulations

Since the early twentieth century, cities have used their regulatory authority to control the construction and availability of housing, the location of parks, the designation of landfill sites, and other aspects of urban development. Jessica Trounstine, Foundation Board of Trustees Presidential Chair, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Merced, will discuss how land use regulations have generated segregation along race and class lines, enhancing the wealth of white property owners at the expense of people of color and the poor, and will explore the inequities that have resulted from these processes.

Organized by the Penn Program on Regulation and co-sponsored by the Penn Law Office of Equity and Inclusion and Penn IUR.