The Dream Revisited: Balancing Investments in People and Place
Launched on Martin Luther King Jr. Day earlier this year, The Dream Revisited is a slow debate on the causes and consequences of racial and economic segregation in neighborhoods and schools. It is presented as part of the NYU Furman Center’s year-long Integration Research Initiative.
The tenth discussion in The Dream Revisited debates the appropriate balance between investments to help low-income households move to neighborhoods that offer greater access to opportunity, and investments to improve the quality of life in low-income neighborhoods. Essays in this discussion include:
- “Creating Opportunity for Minority and Low-Income Families” by Raphael Bostic, Bedrosian Chair on Governance and the Public Enterprise at the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California and Sheryl Verlaine Whitney, Partner at the consulting firm Whitney Jennings
- “A Case for Choice: Looking at Connecticut” by Erin Boggs, Esq., Executive Director of Open Communities Alliance
- “Holistic Place-Based Investments" by Nancy O. Andrews, Chief Executive Officer at the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) and Dan Rinzler, Special Programs Coordinator at the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF)
- “Prepare for Divergent Metropolitan Futures” by Rolf Pendall, Director of the Urban Institute’s Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center
Share your questions and reactions to the essays on Twitter via the hashtag #TheDreamRevisited.
The Dream Revisited is presented as part of the NYU Furman Center's Integration Research Initiative and supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Foundations. If you have any comments or suggestions for future discussions, send us an email to fccommunications@nyu.com.
