Resources

Introduction to Housing Inequality/Racial Wealth Gap:

• Housing Segregation and Redlining in America: A Short History | Code Switch | NPR | Available on YouTube 
• Explained | Racial Wealth Gap | FULL EPISODE | Netflix | Available on YouTube

Housing Inequality in Detroit:

• Akers, Joshua, and Eric Seymour. “Instrumental exploitation: Predatory property relations at city’s end.” Geoforum 91 (2018): 127-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.02.022 
• Bernadette Atuahene & Christopher Berry, Taxed Out: Illegal Property Tax Assessments and the Epidemic of Tax Foreclosures in Detroit, 9 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 847 (2019).  https://scholarship.law.uci.edu/ucilr/vol9/iss4/3
• Julie Cassidy, Detroit: The evolution of a housing crisis. Economic Security, May 7 2019.
• Carl Hedman and Rolf Pendall, Rebuilding and Sustaining Homeownership for African Americans. Urban Institute Southeast Michigan Futures Housing Brief 3. June, 2018. 
• Danyelle Solomon, Connor Maxwell, and Abril Castro, Systemic Inequality: Displacement, Exclusion, and Segregation. How America’s Housing System Undermines Wealth Building in Communities of Color. Center for American Progress, Report. Aug 7, 2019. 

Housing Real Utopia Advocates: 

• Margaret Dewar Homepage
• Jefferson East Inc. Homepage
• Detroit Planning and Development Department/Design and Development Innovation
• Recent Progressive Housing Legislation in the U.S. 

If you have any questions or comments, please contact WealthInequality@umich.edu.