This article explore the barriers faced by people interested in homeownership. The author identifies three main barriers: affordability, systemic, and personal.
In this book, Taplin-Kaguru explores how the exclusion of Black Americans from homeownership has impacted the larger system of race inequality in America, including disparities in education, health, employment, and criminal justice.
Researchers use 1,824 interview with people who have a serious mental illness to explain the frequent housing, employment, and education discrimination this group experiences.
This chart shows the disparities in homeownership as it relates to the race of residents in occupied housing units and can be used to support claims of housing discrimination.
This article goes into the social impact of housing policy, and how it is responsible for the construction of “socially intolerance ideologies around neighborhood desirability and who constitutes desirable neighbors”
In this interview, food justice advocate Karen Washington encourages the use of the term “food apartheid” instead of “food desert” to refer to how food systems intersect with poverty, racism, healthcare, and unemployment.
This brief uses information from a community listening campaign to understand vaccine hesitancy within at-risk populations and where residents received information about the coronavirus vaccine.