Race & Space: A Straight Red Line from Housing Segregation to Communities in Crisis

Across the country, federal, state, and local governments have used “redlining” and other discriminatory policies with the explicit intent to segregate cities and towns. As a result, black communities have been hobbled by a lack of economic investment, depressed property values, underfunded schools, and violence. Perhaps more than any other single cause, state-sanctioned segregation has contributed to the crisis in policing, gun violence, the school-to-prison pipeline, and a host of other devastating effects that an ascendant group of activists has mobilized to rectify. How does housing segregation’s role as a root cause of current racial disparities impact efforts to design effective solutions to these problems?

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Allison Bethel, Clinical Director and Professor, Fair Housing Legal Clinic, John Marshall Law School, MODERATOR

Sheryll Cashin, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Justin Hansford, Democracy Project Fellow, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University; Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Richard Rothstein, Research Associate, Economic Policy Institute; Fellow, Thurgood Marshall Institute,NAACP Legal Defense Fund; Senior Fellow, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, University of California, Berkeley School of Law

Ilya Somin, Professor of Law, George Mason University
Antonin Scalia Law School