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NY Ended Poor Doors, But This Kind Of Discrimination Is Worse
There’s actually not as much research as you would think supporting the theory that economically integrated communities or even buildings benefit the poor.
What fundamentally needs to change are the perceptions some use to justify housing discrimination against low income tenants.
Socialism vs. Capitalism It appears capitalism is viewed more favorably by older Americans, while socialism is viewed more favorably by younger Americans. Source: YouGov
This makes sense, since wealth usually increases with age in most capitalist societies.
Sources of information could also function in the surveying. Would be interesting to see the same question asked every 20 years from now.
Fighting Poverty With Soft Skills
Soft skills, sometimes described as socio-emotional skills, can influence the most important interactions between students and others. Teachers, coaches, and internship employers make many of their decisions – like how much time to invest and who to vouch for – based on how well these socio-emotional skills are wielded. And these skills can’t necessarily be learned just because someone is otherwise “smart.”
The socio-emotional skills researchers found most valuable include those that assist in achieving lifetime goals, cooperating with others, and emotional management. Arguably some of these skills can be developed inside the classroom as well as outside, through activities like group work and presentations, and would ideally be learned before adulthood. Unfortunately those classroom activities aren’t staple assignments for all students….
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Black students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design say there are no design courses that consider race and justice. Here’s an outline for one.
There Goes the ‘Hood, by Lance Freeman, 2006
Fair and Healthy Land Use: Environmental Justice and Planning, by Craig Anthony Arnold, 2007
Aesthetics of Equity, by Craig Wilkins, 2007
Structural Inequality: Black Architects in the United States, by Victoria Kaplan, 2006
The Crisis of the African-American Architect: Conflicting Cultures of Architecture and (Black) Power, by Melvin Mitchell , 2002
Urban Planning and the African-American Community, by June Manning Thomas, 1997
Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit, June Manning Thomas, 1997
Planning Atlanta, by Harley F. Etienne and Barbara Faga, 2015
The Black Metropolis in the 21st Century: Race, Power, and the Politics of Place, edited by Robert Bullard, 2007
Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity, edited by Robert Bullard, 2007
Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World, edited by Julian Agyeman, Robert D. Bullard and Bob Evans, 2003
Race, Poverty, and American Cities, by John Charles Boger, 1993
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City, by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, 1962
Everything from David Harvey
The Philadelphia Negro, by W.E.B. Dubois, 1896
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Hi there!
For my #BlackLivesMatter course at Dartmouth, my group members and I made this video to document Black resistance over time to contextualize the current movement and show that it’s part of a larger historical struggle for justice. We worked really hard on it and would be really appreciative if you could watch and share it! Thank you!
Rikers’ Solitary Confinement Killed Kalief Browder, But Others Can Be Saved
Browder spent years in jail awaiting trial, a challenge particularly familiar to arrested low-income Bronxites. And during those years he spent hundreds of days in solitary confinement. But whether outside or within solitary Browder was frequently the victim of abuse at the hands of inmates and guards alike.
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Solitary confinement is hardly any better for adults than it is for the young. It's hard not to see more of these kinds of tragedies coming in the future if isolation isn't reformed or preferably ended.
It puts inmates, the formerly incarcerated, and those around them in immense danger.
3 Ways To End Chinatown’s Gentrification
What’s been happening in Chinatown has hardly been silent, even if outsiders have been quiet about it. While neighborhoods like Williamsburg, Crown Heights, and Harlem have all become synonymous with encroaching gentrification, Chinatown probably elicits little more than an acknowledged existence in most New Yorker’s minds. We know something has been changing there, we may have even seen a headline once talking about it, but the large neighborhood covering parts of the Lower East Side and Two Bridges hardly gets its deserved attention.
Many are failing to recognize that if the gentrification happening in Chinatown can be stopped, and neighborhood development managed in a way that benefits all community members, the same can probably be done elsewhere…
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Looks like everyone was waiting for a solution to Chinatown(s)' gentrification...
When the LA Riots Started Today In 1992...
... it was a revolution both for race relations in America and American media. The six day riot became the starting point for a reinvigorated dig into organizational oppression and racism. The LAPD would undergo serious scrutiny and although the police department did not come out on the other side as a entirely reformed force, the question of how could so many officers participate in a cult beating of anyone - but especially a Black person - was taken more seriously than ever in our nation’s past.
At the same time the riot was a boon for cable television. Almost as soon as the agitated protesters appeared in front of the court house on April 29th national networks had their lenses ready. And to an extent we should be grateful: cable news hadn’t fully developed its now notorious sidestepping of journalism for the sake of infotainment yet, so these national and local stations actually provided some essential raw documentation of how law enforcement and rioters reacted to each other, the news, and their environment.
Today we have gone even further. This generation hardly trusts cable news, instead taking storytelling into their own hands with smartphones, tablets, and an infinite cloud of sharing. While cable news coils and contorts gleefully in the muddy pit, assuring its aged audience that anyone not using the dumbed-down manifesto of MLK is the bad guy in Baltimore’s protests, activists, cop watchers, amateur independent journalists, and many more are showing a very nuanced story. One in which police militarization has made the visuals of an uprising in America too eerily similar to what we saw only a few years ago in Egypt. A story with, honestly, “bad guys” on both sides but a clear distinction between the poor outcomes of mob mentality and relentless State-sponsored violence against mostly unarmed protesters.
More than a generation has passed since the last time America experienced its most devastating riot in history. Yet probably the most consistent trait between then and now is how little has changed for the state of Black America. And so, rioting and aggressive protesting may seem all too necessary again.
Our Perilous Push For A Vision Zero On Food Waste
The Dept. of Sanitation will soon decide whether composting is sustainable Citywide, reducing waste pollution. But unforeseen challenges are putting NYC’s Vision Zero on food waste into serious jeopardy.
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Why When It Comes To Social Mobility, We Don’t Discuss Single-Parent Families
The fine workings of social mobility might be magnified now, but the single parent phenomenon becomes clearer when we consider how unlikely it is for a Black woman to find a suitable partner. Take for example education: of our sample of 100 non-incarcerated Black women in America, 57 have at least some college education and 23 of those have at least a Bachelor’s degree. But of the 83 non-incarcerated Black men, only 34 have some college education and only 13 have at least a Bachelor’s degree. The applicant pool of matching male partners is dwindling in many ways.
Some conservatives would like us to point to single parenthood and simply say “ah ha.” They would like social mobility summarized as a divide between those who hold American values dearly and those who have made careless immoral mistakes and now demand reparations. But none of that is valid or sensible, and it’s the complete opposite of how we’re instructed to judge other widespread phenomenons more likely to be inherently cultural and malicious – like police brutality and Jim Crow practices among departments. Rather, single parenthood seems to be the result of decades (and arguably centuries) of American social policy directed at herding African Americans, using their communities as social dumping grounds, and scapegoating the Black male as the universal cause of urban decline. No wonder then it’s linked to social stagnation, the most tell-tale sign of the American Dream’s collapse. Now that’s something conservative pundits may never dare utter.
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1.5 million "missing" Black men is what connects social mobility, race, and single parenthood.
NYC Censored History: In 1968 Students Protest Racism And Militarism At Columbia By Taking A Dean Hostage
In early March 1967, a Columbia University Students for a Democratic Society activist named Bob Feldman discovered documents in the International Law Library detailing Columbia’s institutional affiliation with the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), a weapons research think-tank affiliated with the U.S. Department of Defense. The nature of the association had not been, to that point, publicly announced by the University.
Columbia’s plan to construct a gymnasium in city-owned Morningside Park also touched off negative sentiment on campus and in the Harlem community. Opposition began in 1965 during the mayoral campaign of John Lindsay, who opposed the project. By 1967 community opposition had become more militant. One of the causes for dispute was the gym’s proposed design, which would have included access for residents of Harlem through a so-called “back door” to a dedicated community facility on its lower level.
The first protest occurred eight days before the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. In response to the Columbia Administration’s attempts to suppress anti-IDA student protest on its campus, and Columbia’s plans for the Morningside Park gymnasium, Columbia SDS activists and the student activists who led Columbia’s Student Afro Society (SAS) held a second, confrontational demonstration on April 23, 1968. After the protesting Columbia and Barnardstudents were prevented from protesting inside Low Library by Columbia security guards, most of the student protesters marched down to the Columbia gymnasium construction site in Morningside Park, attempted to stop construction of the gymnasium and began to struggle with the New York City Police officers who were guarding the construction site.The NYPD arrested one protester at the gym site. Columbia SDS chairman Mark Rudd then led the protesting students from Morningside Park back to Columbia’s campus, where students took over Hamilton Hall, a building housing both classrooms and the offices of the Columbia College Administration.
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Don't sleep on how the 1968 protest went down.
Do Taxes Reduce Income Inequality?
And while [Brookings Economist David] Wessel has a literal point that “the government takes more from the best-off,” in practice the tax rate is mostly parabolic when considering how States collect revenue. The effective tax rate changes significantly when including sales and excise revenue, often collected by States and municipal governments (a few States rely almost exclusively on these sources) and disproportionately levied on middle income earners. According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in New York, the 41st most unfair State on their scale of local tax systems, the percentage of income taken by sales taxes drops dramatically after the middle quintile. The top 20% of filers here have an average State tax rate of 9.9% while the lowest 20% are taxed at 10.4% with tax rates “peaking” at the fourth quintile, making New York’s tax system effectively regressive….
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A good reason to substantially increase taxes on the wealthiest, for universal benefits.
Gentrification Could Create The Next Wave of “New Blacks”
Is this how the next wave of “New Blacks” will rise? Will we soon see the day when high earning, professional Black workers live gleefully in their revitalized emerald city, mingling with second generation immigrant college grads and White newcomers escaping suburban poverty, shaking their heads in judgment at the poor of color living on the outskirts of the metropolis? How the tables would have turned if inner-city Blacks began lamenting that their suburban peers, targeted by police and excluded by banks, “blamed other races for our issues….”
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Don't sleep on the way socioeconomic trends can fragment Black communities...
Not Worth It: Subsidizing Luxury Housing For An “Affordable” Bribe
Remarkably we’re expected to accept that it’s worth it for the City’s government to pour hundreds of thousands into a high end, barely affordable apartment, but the Section 8 unit around the corner is only worth a few thousand to the same folks extorting us?
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The amount of money NYC dedicated to luxury housing to subsidize affordable tag-along units could have fetched almost 100x as many affordable Section 8 vouchers
Interactive: Poverty, Condoms, And Birth Rates – Not What You Expected
In case someone says poor women need to use more condoms, rest assured - the challenges they face in family planning are too complicated to be solved by a bowl of free condoms.
And, in NYC at least, we probably don’t understand those challenges nearly well enough….
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How #NoNewNYPD Prioritizes Communities Over Officers
It was clear that growing police militarization was a universal concern among the protesters. In more than one way the thought that financing even these new 1000 officers will continue government sanctioned terrorism within mostly non-White, low income communities has been radiating from the #NoNewNYPD movement. Arguably the massive gaps left in infrastructures that poor communities depend upon coinciding with a War on Drugs/Terrorism fueled ramp up in police armament, violence, and elected officials’ tolerance of both all but constitute an assault on Black & Latino communities.
Vocal members of the movement aren’t at a loss for solutions either: accountability, community-organized policing, and disarmament have been pointed to as the correct steps forward….
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You can't sleep on this #NoNewNYPD movement.
