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The Danger Zone is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth

March 4 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Free

The Danger Zone is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth argues that residential racial segregation is both an economic injustice and a public health hazard. It contends that housing insecurity and its attendant health consequences make up key components of an unjust, destructive, and deadly racial order.

It explains how these dire racist injustices are effects of practices that might appear initially to be race neutral, such as decisions about zoning and construction of municipal and school district boundaries. Health and housing injustices cannot be remedied by any single law, public policy, medical practice, or technological fix. They require the creation of an active and engaged multi-sphere public mobilization that recruits people to invent and implement new democratic practices in many different arenas. The Danger Zone is Everywhere calls attention to the profound wisdom and powerful achievements of grass roots fair housing groups, health and healing arts collectives, environmental justice initiatives, community land trusts, autonomous learning circles, and community co-operative ventures.

Venue

Zoom