Kiln, Mississippi Peter Drier, comrade, housing expert, and professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles, made an interesting point in a piece he wrote recently about segregation. Reflecting on Ferguson, Missouri, although it could have been hundreds of places he wrote: Sociologists have invented a way to measure segregation called the “index of dissimilarity,” which …
Tag: affordable housing
Is Co-living About Affordability or Gentrification?
New Orleans Talking on Wade’s World on KABF with Michael Robinson Cohen about his Yale School of Architecture studio project to design a hundred thousand affordable housing units for San Francisco, or any other city that understands the problem and the potential, led us naturally to co-living. Michael and his gang believe there is tremendous promise …
Gentrification Outstripping Community Development
New Orleans Josh Ishimatsu wrote an interesting piece for theRooflines blog managed by Shelterforce magazine that asks troubling questions about whether rapid development in the form of gentrification has outstripped community development efforts. He might have even gone farther and asked whether community development corporations have too often been the nonprofit stalking horses for …