Diversity

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MLK Day Kicks Off Advocacy for Affordable Housing

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MLK Day Kicks Off Advocacy for Affordable Housing

MLK Day of Service kicked off advocacy efforts, which will be focused on AHIF funding and missing middle housing during 2020.

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Equity & Affordability: 2019 Leckey Forum Videos

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Andrea Brennan, housing policy and development director for the Minneapolis, spoke at the Alliance For Housing Solutions’ annual Leckey Forum about how her city recently upended many of its housing regulations to make way for affordability and, most importantly, equity.

Five Ways Housing Affordability Affects Local Businesses

Five Ways Housing Affordability Affects Local Businesses

Like bridges and roads, affordable housing is an investment in a community’s infrastructure. Along with numerous social benefits, housing affordability supports diverse jobs and wage levels and also attracts and retains workers – critical to a community’s long-term economic success.
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Confronting Diversity: Leckey Forum Videos

Confronting Diversity: Leckey Forum Videos

Arlington County’s vision is to be a “diverse and inclusive world-class urban community.” The 2018 Leckey Forum explored the challenges to achieving this vision by exploring the historical context of racial segregation and current policies that keep neighborhoods from being more diverse.

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Housing Segregation: A Vestige of the Past?

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The Fair Housing Act was passed fifty years ago, yet America’s neighborhoods remain deeply segregated along racial lines. Author Richard Rothstein argues that this divide is the direct result of government policies, some of which are relegated to the past and others that are still in place today.


Housing for a Diverse and Sustainable Community