Life expectancy is inextricably tied to an individual’s socioeconomic circumstances; this is fairly common knowledge. However, what is less known…
Tag: Inequality
A group of Lubbock neighborhood associations asks the City to make an equitable comprehensive plan – will Lubbock listen?
For many American cities, the biggest obstacle for creating an equitable comprehensive plan for the future is overcoming systemically racist…
Texas Housers project shines a light on concerns of Lubbock residents and provides context for community planning
Whether they’re black, Hispanic or white; whether they live on the east, north or southwest sides of town; or whether…
Texas Housers, Inclusive Communities Project talk to Lubbock community about fair housing and neighborhood inequality
https://vimeo.com/255434267 The consequences of Jim Crow segregation common across the South still linger in Lubbock, where neighborhoods remain segregated and…
Texas Housers discusses neighborhood inequality at Amarillo community development forum
(Downtown Amarillo) Amarillo Community Development and Neighborhood Equity from Texas Housers on Vimeo. Like much of Texas, Amarillo is…
Hands-on training for colonia leaders emphasizes role of government in solving problems
Cris Rocha, a community organizer with La Unión del Pueblo Entero (LUPE), welcomed the group and Norma Aldape, a LUPE member and…
#InequalityIs…
We have now hit 1,000 posts on the Texas Housers blog, chronicling several years of housing and neighborhood issues here…
The right to choose, the right to stay, the right to equal treatment, the right to have a say: Reimagining fair housing
[The following are remarks I prepared for the keynote at the National Association of Collegiate Planners Conference in Houston, October 23,…
Recession and falling housing values dramatically widening wealth gap between whites, Hispanics and blacks
Most everyone is aware of the long-time “wealth gap” between whites vs. Hispanics and blacks. A new Pew Research Center…