opportunity based housing: challenges and opportunities in the wake of the subprime lending crisis

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Christy Rogers Senior Research Associate The Kirwan Institute The Kirwan Institute Guest Lecture: Planning for Social and Racial Equity

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Page 1: Opportunity Based Housing: Challenges and Opportunities in the Wake of the Subprime Lending Crisis

Christy RogersSenior Research AssociateThe Kirwan InstituteThe Kirwan InstituteGuest Lecture: Planning for Social and Racial Equity

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It’s not just your h   it’     house – it’s your  family, your friends, your  neighbors, your local school, yyour doctor, your favorite grocery store…and all these things shape lives  things shape lives, especially kids’ lives.

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f The denial of mortgage insurance …Banks reluctant to lend

ll Racially restrictive covenants Physical barriers (Detroit’s “wailing wall”)

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f Lack of low‐cost credit options Few preventative care doctors

h h l k f h High‐cost grocery stores that lack fresh produce and meat

d h l Concentrated poverty schools 

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f Informal economies Extended family networks

l d Politicization and organization Community associations

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From Redlining to gReverse Redlining

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Findings Fair housing and fair credit are about local places, people, relationships, and histories Federal policy must support (and not undercut) b h  i di i i i   ff   d  ffi i  both anti‐discrimination efforts and affirmative commitments to fair housing and fair creditWh t i    f i   d j t  st C t   i   What is a fair and just 21st Century economic system, and what kind of financial system is needed to support it?needed to support it?

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