The Dream Revisited: Community Preferences and Fair Housing

November 18th 2015

The seventeenth discussion on The Dream Revisited, Community Preferences and Fair Housing, debates the extent to which preferences for neighborhood residents in accessing new affordable housing promote or betray the goal of truly inclusionary communities.

Essays in the latest discussion include:

An Inclusionary Tool Created by Low-Income Communities for Low-Income Communities
By Rafael Cestero, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Community Preservation Corporation (CPC) and its for-profit development subsidiary, CPC Resources, Inc.

Community Preferences Discriminate                                                                                             
By Errol Louis, a CNN Political Commentator and the host of "Inside City Hall," a nightly political show on NY1, a New York all-news channel

The Community Preference Policy: An Unnecessary Barrier to Minorities’ Housing Rights
By Robert G. Schwemm, the Ashland-Spears Distinguished Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law

Local Preferences Require Local Analysis
By Sam Tepperman-Gelfant, Senior Staff Attorney at Public Advocates Inc., a nonprofit law firm and advocacy organization

 

The Dream Revisited is the NYU Furman Center's ongoing “slow debate” on the causes and consequences of racial and economic segregation in neighborhoods and schools. Past discussions have explored the poor door debateimplicit biasplace-based affirmative actiongentrification, and economic segregation in schools

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The Dream Revisited is 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.

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