place, housing & opportunity: fair housing for supporting thriving families and communities
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Place, Housing & Opportunity: Fair Housing for
Supporting Thriving Families and Communities KEYNOTE ADDRESS - 2015 FAIR HOUSING BREAKFAST
FAIR HOUSING CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
ANN ARBOR, MI MARCH 25TH 2015
JASON REECE
DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH, THE KIRWAN INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF RACE & ETHNICITY
LECTURER, CITY & REGIONAL PLANNING PROGRAM, KNOWLTON SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
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Why Fair Housing Matters SUPPORTING THRIVING FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES
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Housing matters, place matters.
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The Significance of Housing to Child Development
Housing stressed families spent 30% less on food, 50%
less on clothing, and 70%
less on health care (Joint Center for Housing Studies)
Children are particularly
vulnerable to housing instability, impacting health
and educational outcomes
(stress, toxin/environmental exposure, classroom/school
instability)
Housing instability can potentially undermine child
development initiatives and
interventions
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Place/Community Matters. (Places of Toxic Stress)
Point to a group of toddlers in a low-income neighborhood, and especially if theyre boys
theyre much more likely to end up dropping out of school, struggling in dead-end jobs and
having trouble with the law.
Something is profoundly wrong when we can point to 2-year-olds in this country and make a
plausible bet about their long-term outcomes not based on their brains and capabilities,
but on their ZIP codes.
- Nick Kristof, For Obamas Second Term, Mr. President Start Here. New York Times. January 23, 2012
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The Role of Chronic Stress & ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences)
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Toxic Stress: Areas of Youth Gun Violence YOUTH VICTIMS OF GUN VIOLENCE IN COLUMBUS, 2012 (BY RACE)
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Thriving Neighborhoods = Thriving Children
Struggling neighborhoods = Struggling Children
Opportunity structures are vital to combating
the impact of poverty, creating strong
neighborhoods and an environment in which
children can become successful adults.
Neighborhood conditions and childhood development are intricately intertwined
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Scope of the Challenge SUPPORTING THRIVING FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES
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Continued Challenges:
Disinvestment & Unhealthy Neighborhoods
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Continued Challenges: Exclusion
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Washtenaw Co. FHEA Data
Overall Opportunity (quintiles)
Very High [71.3 - 93.4]
High [62.7 - 71.3]
Moderate [54.2 - 62.6]
Low [45.1 - 54.1]
Very Low [16.3 - 45.0]
HUDs FHEA
Opportunity Index:
Relative to Washtenaw
County, Michigan Block
Groups
The Geography of Opportunity
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School Quality & Assisted Housing in SE Michigan
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Continued Challenges: Dimensions of Affordability
Who isnt served by the housing market?
Population at125% of the poverty in the U.S.
Nearly 1 in 3
children
1 out of 3 African
Americans,
Latinos and
Native Americans
1 in 3 disabled
1 in 4
immigrants
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Continued Challenges: The Ghost of History
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Baltimore: Passes First Racial Zoning Ordinance
in 1910/1911 (Used Public Health Language as Justification)
"Blacks should be quarantined in isolated
slums in order to reduce the
incidents of civil
disturbance, to prevent the
spread of communicable disease into the nearby
White neighborhoods, and
to protect property values
among the White majority."
Baltimore Mayor Bary Mahool, 1910
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Opportunity SUPPORTING THRIVING FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES
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A New Family Portrait Population Change by Race. Source: Figure from the PolicyLink Equity Atlas
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Recognition of the Challenge and the Stakes
Quote from Housing Affordability and Economic Equity
Analysis, Washtenaw County, MI Office of Community and
Economic Development Washtenaw County
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Investing in Places & Assuring Housing
Choice in Areas of Opportunity
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Where Do We Go From Here?
Raising awareness of the critical need for fair housing to support an
economically vibrant community
Identifying more resources to
support fair housing
Building community will to work
together (leveraging resources and
supportive partnerships) to support
fair housing
Supporting a policy framework
which assures access to opportunity for all
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Innovation: Housing as a Health Intervention Public health stakeholders are looking toward housing as a critical social
determinant linked to health problems
We can anticipate more projects involving health practitioners and stakeholders to support housing as a health intervention
Housing rehabilitation as part of the Nationwide Childrens Hospital
Healthy Neighborhoods, Healthy Families Program